Giant's Causeway

Monday, September 7th

We were greeted Monday morning with sunshine, so after breakfast we decided to take advantage of the weather and go see the Giant’s Causeway. We loaded into Louise’s car - a navy blue convertable Saab that she has dreamed of having for years - put the top down, pulled our hair back and hit the open road. It was a gorgeous day and we enjoyed it to the fullest seeing the countryside and the coast under a big blue sky feeling glamorous as we rode along with the wind in our hair. Louise was a great tourguide pointing out towns and landmarks as we drove along. It wasn’t long before we were at the causeway and ready to explore. We were particularly excited because the week prior at Iona we had the chance to take a boat trip to the Island of Staffa which is the location of the other end of this amazing formation of basalt rock columns that extend across the sea from Scotland to Ireland.

Folks used to believe that the giants had built this bridge to connect the two lands, hence the name of the site. Louise said some of her other visitors have said they don’t understand what is so cool about a bunch of rocks, but we were excited! We walked down to the formations and looked around quite a bit - Whitney and Kirsten went out further than Jen and Louise, even seeing some tide pools before having to hurry back up to keep from getting splashed as the tide came in! Eventually Jen and Louise headed up to the cafe for a cuppa tea and hot chocolate (which is served with a Cadbury flake candy bar - uh, why don’t we do that?) while Whitney and Kirsten spent some more time climbing around on this big playground of rock pillars. After playing on the causeway and getting fortified by some tea and yummy scones we decided to drive around a bit more along the coast on our way home. What a lovely drive!

Once home Louise made us some veggie fajitas before heading out to the vestry meeting. We were all so content from the day that we just curled up on the sofas with mugs of tea and chatted till she got back - 2 hours later! Eventually we turned in grateful for the sunshine, the beauty of the place, and good friends with whom to share it all!