Cong - a walk through the Irish Countryside
Ashford Castle
Limericks as we drive through Limerick County
Actually, we drove through Limerick county a few days earlier, but to memorialize the event, Barry asks us all to try our hand at writing a limerick.
In case you have forgotten, the structure for a limerick is as follows: 5 Lines The first, second and fifth line have 9 syllables; The first, second and fifth lines must rhyme on the last word; The third and fourth lines have five syllables. |
Westport
My SHINING Moment . . .
As we are checking into our hotel, Jon says out loud, what I'm thinking . . . This hotel looks like the hallways of the Overlook Hotel in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. We can practically hear Danny Torrance riding his Big Wheel up and down the hall. Jokingly, I say "redrum" as we walk to our rooms. This is my night for the solo room so Janis and Roz head off to their room while I wash my face and get ready to go explore the quaint town of Westport.
Roz comes to my room and knocks on the door. I answer it and try to unlock the door; the door won't budge. I'm locked in. Janis and Roz have our "party bag" with my best MacGyver tool, my gourmet Leatherman (not to mention the wine and cheese), so there's not much I can do from inside the room.
Roz calls the front desk and housekeeping arrives, with the hunky front desk clerk, Pavel. The master key won't work. Barry is called. A hammer and chisel arrives. The chisel breaks. They try and unscrew the door handle. That does not work. I'm thinking: "Shelley Duvall would have given anything to have a door this strong when Jack Nicholson came calling." I'm also getting a little panicky, while the window is not as tiny as the one Shelley had to contend with, I have no snow bank to climb down - it's a long drop to the ground from the second floor (and while I would cleanse my soul - I'm not ready to go to heaven yet)! Finally I'm told to stand back; Pavel and Barry are going to kick the door in. I stand back - hear a mighty crash and the door comes flying open. I'm free!
Pavel escorts me to my new room and after putting my luggage on the rack, he tries to open the door --it won't budge! Psych! He's faking - but my mind is thinking, Pavel is an acceptable alternative to the party bag!
(My thanks to Roz for documenting my Shining moment!)
Roz comes to my room and knocks on the door. I answer it and try to unlock the door; the door won't budge. I'm locked in. Janis and Roz have our "party bag" with my best MacGyver tool, my gourmet Leatherman (not to mention the wine and cheese), so there's not much I can do from inside the room.
Roz calls the front desk and housekeeping arrives, with the hunky front desk clerk, Pavel. The master key won't work. Barry is called. A hammer and chisel arrives. The chisel breaks. They try and unscrew the door handle. That does not work. I'm thinking: "Shelley Duvall would have given anything to have a door this strong when Jack Nicholson came calling." I'm also getting a little panicky, while the window is not as tiny as the one Shelley had to contend with, I have no snow bank to climb down - it's a long drop to the ground from the second floor (and while I would cleanse my soul - I'm not ready to go to heaven yet)! Finally I'm told to stand back; Pavel and Barry are going to kick the door in. I stand back - hear a mighty crash and the door comes flying open. I'm free!
Pavel escorts me to my new room and after putting my luggage on the rack, he tries to open the door --it won't budge! Psych! He's faking - but my mind is thinking, Pavel is an acceptable alternative to the party bag!
(My thanks to Roz for documenting my Shining moment!)