Day 12-13 Last full day and departure

Here is what happens when you put too many miles on your driver

View from back porch of cottage

After another stop in Cahir for lunch we go back to our cottage to pack but it is too beautiful out, so we porch sit instead.

Stella, the cottage owner comes over to read the electric meter and we settle up with her. She has already mentioned she likes to take evening walks with her dog, so Stacy asks to go along this evening if it is ok. She does and has a nice walk with Stella, Eamonn, and their dog.

All too soon our trip is over. We did not have internet the last several days of our trip and when we did find a signal while we were in town or eating we used it for everyone to check their emails. Harry and Diann had 2 baby horses while we were gone and they were anxious to see the pictures and get email updates on them while we were traveling.

The next day we have a 24 hour day traveling home. We drive 2 hours to the airport and arrive in plenty of time to get our VAT refunds processed. The duty free shops in the airport have excellent prices and we decide if we come back we will just bring an empty carry-on to the airport and do most of our gift buying here. In the US we usually find the gift shops at the airport way overpriced and were really surprised here. All 3 of our flights home are delayed and the 5 of us reach TRI after midnight and Stacy back to ATL by 9:45 pm. As usual Diann gets frisked by airport security. She feels like she hasn’t flown if she doesn’t. Tim gets his bag inspected because exray shows something unusual in it. Tim ask the inspector if he saw something fishy in it and gets a chuckle……it was the smoked salmon we were bringing home :)

It will be good to sleep in our own bed. We absolutely love to travel, but it is always nice to be home again.

In a couple of days I will post closing thoughts from everyone. We are now back home and Tim and I had to return to work in less than 24 hours. Life sucks sometimes, but the best cure I have found is to have your next vacation in the planning stages which we do.