Tag: Blarney Stone

I need to back up a couple of days, back to the day we arrived at our apartments just outside of Dublin. That was a long day and I missed an important part of it: the morning and early afternoon, when we stopped by Blarney Castle to kiss the Stone of Eloquence, otherwise known as the Blarney Stone. It was actually one of the highlights of our tour, seeing the famous tower where the stone is located, but boy was it a long wait!

When we got there shortly after 10 o’clock in the morning the place was already swarming with other tourists, and we had to get in a long line in order to reach the top. Along the way we did a little exploring of the castle, which was largely open as compared with some of the other castles I had been in on my first trip to Ireland. There were so many nooks and crannies that weren’t off limits to the climbing tourists, which kept things interesting even though the line crept as slowly as molasses. We also made up a song to go with the experience. Here is how it went (to the tune of Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl”:

“I kissed a stone, and I liked it. Hope my tour director won’t mind it. I kissed a stone and I liked it. And I liked it.”

And we got into the debate over who was going to kiss it and who wasn’t. Continue reading “You Call This a Shower?: Part 7*”