By James Dempsey in Ireland — Sep 1, 2023

Slow Days

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Let's treat this less like a vacation and more like a long weekend.

As we geared up to take on 3 months on the road, Jo had the foresight to set our expectations on pace. When you're travelling for 10 days, you can press hard and relax afterwards. We all know that feeling of coming back from a trip, tired and heavier than you'd like to be from rich food. Today was one of those days where we went a little slower, started a little later and refocused our energy.

To start, we stopped by the Macroom library and look through some books. Nora had a keen sense to pull out all the Gaelic ones, but we eventually found some that one of us could read. Later we stopped by the local salad joint for a beet, cabbage and carrot bowl. Yesterday, Jo and I did a bootcamp class in a shed in a field.

Slow days on a trip like this keep energy high. And any parent knows that we become far worse versions of ourselves when we're tired.

Two asides.

Nora has taken to responding to us with: "No way, Jose". Neither of us know where it came from.
At dinner tonight, the kids menu featured a Nutritious Bowl. We were both amused when a small cup of mash potato with beef gravy landed on the table.
Nora found a child's sized grocery cart at a local store in town. She now insists on doing all the shopping.