The Love's Shack: The Adare Manor, Ireland

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

The Adare Manor, Ireland

Our cool green airplane!!

I am publicly giving a shout-out to the driver of our "mini bus" which happened to be our rental car....LOL. We had NO idea! It was hilarious. There were 6 of us that went, and we got a 9 seater!! ha ha! Anyway, my mother is THE MOST courageous women. Driving a bus practically, with a diesel engine, left handed stick shift, on the opposite side of the road, in a foreign country with nothing other than a road map, in the rain, with all of us in the car! She is my HERO!!

The Villa that we stayed in. It was sooooo nice! It was like a house! Upstairs, downstairs, living room, dining room, study, huge kitchen, washer, dryer, 3 bedrooms, and 4 full bathrooms! It was amazing!!

Nice green view out the back window.....So pretty!

Awesome landscaping out by the manor house. Where we stayed was on about 80 acres, beautiful landscaping and golf course!

This is THE beautiful Manor House. The city we stayed in was called Adare, and the resort was called The Adare Manor. Stunning isn't it??! We were able to go in several times because this is where the reception area was where you check in and out. It was just as amazing inside!!

Here are 4 of us, my older brother was ill this day and my mom was taking the photo!

Just a good photo op!!!

In front of the hotel resort sign!

Ohhh, I am so proud of myself for doing my first Ireland post! I have been putting this off because I didnt know where to start!! Well here is my first of many posts from my trip!!

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I feel like the luckiest women in the world! My husband is so good to me, I could not ask for a better man. I find that everytime I ask a question like "Can we go get ice cream?" or "Can we stop here or go there?" His response is ALWAYS "Of course! My baby gets whatever she wants!" Wow, how did I get so lucky?? When I ask why he responds this way, he says simply put "Because I love you." He is constantly telling me how much he loves me and that I am the most important thing in the world to him. Awwwwwwwwwwww!

This was probably my favorite activity we did on our trip! Mostly because I am a HUGE animal lover. We went to a park that was just full of monkeys running around everywhere! We bought nuts, bananas, and corn to feed them. The monkeys were so adorable! They would run right up to us and grab the food out of our hands with their cute little fingers! At one point the monkeys actually jumped on us and we got to hold them. As much as I love my husband, I was a little tempted to leave him behind and bring home a monkey with me instead! I love you Jon!!

We spent of total of 10 days in Thailand. Five of them were spent in the city, Bangkok, and the other half was spent on the beautiful beaches of Thailand. One of our activities was spending all day on a speedboat touring different beaches and also snorkling! There is a movie, "The Beach" (with Leonardo Dicaprio in it), that movie was filmed on an island called
"Phi Phi Island". It was so cool to visit the actual place the movie was filmed! Jon and I watched the movie before we went so we knew the significance of where we were! It was a beautiful place, my only complaint was way to many tourists!

I thought it was pretty ironic that I was the one to get sick on our honeymoon. I was as little paranoid while we were in Thailand, so I tried not to eat anything weird and I always washed my hands and then used hand sanitizer. Jon on the other hand, was completely opposite. My only conclusion is that Jon is more immune to the bacteria outside of the U.S. since he has been to Iraq. After being deathly ill for several days, I finally went to the hospital. I was lucky enough to see an American doctor. They did some blood tests and the results came back that I had a bacterial infection in my intestines. The doctor told me that I either had ecoli or salmonnela. He said the most common way to get this is from drinking ICED drinks. They do not use bottled water for ice, so the ice melts in your drink and your drink is then contaminated.