Cars, Cows and Castles!!

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Meant to do a post right after the weekend but work has been very busy!

Well, let me give you some updates. This past Saturday Pad and I went autocross, where his cousins Dermot and Brendan race what is basically an off-road buggy for time against other cars in the Irish countryside. Check out a short video of Bren below:

Buggies lined up...

Team Whyte keeps it all in the family. Jimmy is the Coach and also happens to be their dad, Brothers Bren and Dermot drive as well as work on the car, and their 3 other brothers Hagen, Declan, and Barry serve as pit crew for them on race days!

Haha, Peadar and Dermot caught in the act of... helping a cuz out with the kink in his back!

I was more interested in checking out the cows then the cars...

Peadar looking fancy in my sunglasses at the race:

On Sunday we went for a lovely walk around Malahide, because the weather was so good!

We saw a group of kids windsurfing out on the estuary so we decided to sign up for lessons ourselves! We are going next weekend so I'll let you know how we do :)

We walked up to Malahide castle, which is about 10 minutes from our place. Like having a local pub or bar, in Ireland you can have a local castle! You can go to lunch here, take a tour, visit the parks and grounds, it's really a great spot. 

After our walk we went to go pick up our GAA tickets for the match from Phillo's house. He has two dogs, Clubber and Chopper. This is Chopper:

And Clubber. Doesn't Clubber look like "The Beast" from the Sandlot? 

At the actual game we sang the Irish National Anthem. And by "we", I mean Peadar. Doesn't Irish seem impossible to pronounce? For next game we are going to phonetically spell out the words so I can read it properly. I promise to post a copy here :) And some pics of Croke Park Stadium and the game.

Lastly, Peadar's sister Olive just announced she is expecting a baby! The first one in her family. Peadar is going to be an uncle... Uncle PadMan haha!

Cooking blog later this week, I promise.

XOXO, Amanda