IRELAND!

Yup, it's booked and I've got my passport! At the end of this month (this month!?!) I'm going to Ireland with my friend Nikki. I am so excited yet it seems so impossible that I can't process the whole thing. It's my first out the country excursion and my first choice of destinations since I can remember. We've opted to do the tour group thang since we feared getting ourselves lost in the fields with the sheep. This should be interesting with the amount of pub visiting we are also planning - - no sleeping in girls!

Next item on the list of things to do is get a new digital camera so I can load up on pictures. I am so afraid about the camera thing that I'll probably bring my regular 35mm with me just as a back-up. The reason I'm so worried is that my mom went to Ireland when she was a teenager and took about 10 rolls of pictures not one of which came out because the lens cap was on the camera the whole time! I know that this is not an issue on camera's any more but having had my share of these types of glitches I'm uber cautious and you can't tell me not to be! So now it's just a matter of getting all of the little stuff taken care of before I go but I really don't have a lot of time - geez only two weekends and I'm outta here. That's just crazy is what that is!
(Can you tell I'm excited? I used enough exclamation points in this post, eh?)