Matt’s in Colorado until Saturday, so I have temporarily deemed the dog Head of Operations.  She’s wearing a crown, but she won’t hold on to her scepter.  (No opposable thumbs, you know.  She uses that excuse to get out of everything.  She’s also refused to blog.)

Below is an image of the cottages at the Park Lodge Hotel outside of Spiddal Village, County Galway, Ireland.  We stayed here while we visited our wonderful friends and helped set up the Park Lodge for the big wedding last week, tying bows and whathaveyou.  But the star of this image is really the Red Rocket (reading Julia Child’s book.  Suddenly very interested in naming my vehicles, though not as much in cooking), a 9 passenger Mercedes van with the right side steering wheel and manual shifter in the middle.  Matt and I were pilot and co-pilot.  Everybody else mostly slept.  We returned it to the kind man at Avis in perfectly fine condition at the Dublin airport.

So we did, so.

More images on their way once the master photoshopper returns to the studio.

Red Rocket or, The Irish Rover