We started the morning off with some more acro yoga before embarking on another family walk. This one was a lingering walk along the hills of the countryside. We wandered along random paths and learned about new plant forms that don't grow outside of Ireland. We tried to touch the pretty purple flower (Foxtrot) that you want to touch and I almost did but was warned that it's poisonous just in time to save me from that as well.
After the walk, a few cousins Jacks and I taught the whole group (including a few more cousins that arrived) some acro yoga. We got a little ahead of ourselves and showed the group a lot of complicated poses-which of course they wanted to jump right into rather than learning the basics first. Jackie's a better base than I am so I got to fly the entire afternoon. Being lifted and twisted (and often dropped) by people wanting to learn Pasarita twists and throne and bird. Finally we all started to wear out and snacked on cheese and grapes. Yum!
The afternoon we decided to take out the Kayak and sit-down surfboard onto the lake. I am not a huge fan of being in water (I like to ride in things on top of it i.e. sailboats) so I decided to try out some sketching on the coast while they played. But the sit-surf board thing was too enticing so I dawned a much to large (but much appreciated) wetsuit and waded in. Only one of the boys was able to ride the thing and everyone else was falling off rather ungracefully into the cold water, so I of course had to see if I could manage it. And I did! Seamus (Anna's second-to-youngest brother) and I went on a nice little Kayak and surf-board stroll around the rocky points of the area and made our way back just as a new spurt of rain began to fall.
We later went for another walk, hesitant because we were expecting more rain. And this time we got distracted with the beauty of the coast (and with yoga and pictures of it). As it started to grow dark and our tummies rumbled, I fell in stinging nettle (not the best of luck with ireland and bumping into allergic things) and had some sweet welts on my hands as a result. They said the tingling would go away in 20 or so minutes but I was still feeling it into the next day.
Hours of card games later, a neighboring camper complained about our tent's noise, and so the Weasely village closed down for the evening.
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