Sunday in Cork/Midelton

Today we went to a small town east of Cork called Midelton. It is the home of the Jameson Whiskey Distillery and museum. We did the guided tour, which was pretty darn fun, and then went to the main house for our complementary drink of Jameson. Now I remember why I don't like whiskey. It gives me the shivers woo. At least they gave us a coke with it so we all wouldn't be sitting around the distillery making horrible faces after each sip...that's just not good for sales. Adam, Kylie and Allison volunteered to do a whiskey taste test and then became "official" whiskey tasting experts. Or at least their signed and dated certificates say so.

After purchasing some Jameson for the back homers we all wandered into a nice little pub and had lunch and watched old guys yell at the horse races on T.V. Okay, imagine the movie "Snatch," do you remember how no one could understand Brad Pitt's character? Well that is exactly how the Irish in Cork sound. "Ya gotch dur hurse n de gruss wit de leg ore de ting n he won n ye ga yaaah"...WHAT? Exactly. Go horses is basically what he was saying.

So after my meal of roast turkey with 7 different kinds of potatoes we took a stroll over to the bus station to wait for our ride home. After waiting for a bit we start to hear a rumble coming down the street.... I am thinking, what the heck kind of muffler is on this car...oh but it is not a car with a crazy muffler rumbling down the street, it's a HUGE tractor looking thing driven by 2 teenagers. AND who follows them up, another crazy tractor with more kids driving. They drove up and down the main drag of Midelton about 3 times, and then probably got bored of me running after them taking pictures and went home. Ireland is crazy.