Sept. 24th 2012

         Over this past weekend, I had Irish stew with Lexie and Stephen Mcfeeters.  It was delicious and they added this sugar and salt brown sauce on top of it, which was very good.  Then we all had tea in their living room and soon after drove up to Portstewart.  Portstewart is a little town that sits right on the coast.  It was breathtakingly beautiful.  Lydia and I stayed at the Mcfeeters extra home in Portstewart, which was very nice and only a few blocks away from the coast.  Outside our back window of the home was a field of cows! The first night we got there, it was very late so we just went to sleep soon and woke up in the morning.  We got up at ten and left at noon and didn't get home till about 7pm!  We walked all over Portstewart.  We walked along the rocky coast, the town with all the cute little shops, the playground on the coast, and then the 2 mile long beach and back through high grass fields.  When we walked along the rocky coast (which was right next to a golf course), there were so many full beautiful sea shells.  I've never seen so many in perfect condition in my life.  I collected quite a few. I wasn't afraid at all to walk through the high grass because here in Ireland, they have no harmful beasts! That means no snakes, wolves, or bears! Absolutely none! Lydia and I stopped in town to have our very first fish and chips, which i will show here.  When walking towards the beach, we passed a very large church/school on the cliffs.  There was a wall along the cliffs that we walked with the ocean below us.  It was so beautiful. We saw these beautiful snail shells that were red, black, and yellow and they live in these tall grasses among the sand.  Lydia and I were so tired after walking everywhere so when we went home, we just had a frozen pizza and watched funny british sitcoms in bed. The next day we debated going to Portrush but we didn't have as much time before Lexie's firefighter friends picked us up to return us back to Derry, so we decided against it. We spent most of the day in their extra home just relaxing and cleaning the home.  Well, the pictures say it all, so enjoy!