Cork is fun

I love cities that have lots of things going on. I grew up in a verrrrrry small town, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. It's a beautiful place, and I loved it in the summertime. It has some of the best beaches in the world (in my humble opinion.)

                                                  Me and Brian at Lecount's Hollow Beach

In the summer Wellfleet has a population of about 20,000, but in the winter it was about
 2,000 people.....not much to do.

For the past 11 years I've lived in Vilnius, Lithuania, population 500,000. It's about as different from Wellfleet as you could get. One thing I appreciated about living there was all the events that the city put on year round. There were street music festivals, craft fairs, world food days, many different holiday bazaars, and sport tournaments.   

Cork is somewhere in between. The population here is 120,000, but it seems to have a lot going on. Friday the city had a "Night of Culture". They had events going on all over the downtown. Bands were playing all over, art museums were open free of charge, bizarre huge puppet like creatures were dancing, old movies were being shown.....it was a lot of fun.

                 

Saturday morning we checked out the local farmer's market - I was excited to learn it runs every Saturday year round!

And Sunday there was a community family fun fair in our neighborhood - no pictures of that though!
I've seen advertisements for many upcoming events in Cork. I'm looking forward to them as it's a great way to be able to meet people.

Where Am I???

I'm sorry that there haven't been any posts lately on Kerri In Cork, but that's because Kerri hasn't been in Cork lately. Right after my last post we went to London.

                                                                                    
We got to hang out with our friends Mike and Tracy.

 

and Keith got to preach in Walthamstow.

The next day we flew to Holland for the healing crusade and conference.

 The tent crusade was awesome, so many people made decisions for Christ, and so many were healed.

 

We stayed in the Ikea concept hotel in Delft. Everything in the hotel came from Ikea. It felt like you were sleeping in the showroom.

 

 

Somebody special celebrated his 46th birthday in Holland.

 

After the conference it was back to Ireland for 3 days. It was a busy crazy few days, but it was great because in those 3 days we were able to obtain our visa!

 

Then we were off to America for 3 1/2 weeks. Our plan was to help my mother-in-law remodel her kitchen. We'd never done that before, but thought "how hard could it be?" I've seen so many out in  blogland.

 

 

                                                                            Before

                                                                           
                                                          Brian came to help too.

                                                           
                                                 I never realized how many cabinets this kitchen has.

                                                                   
                                                 We spent way too much time in Home Depot, but the end results were worth it. I will post pics soon....This guy got his driving license.

                                                                               

We also got to do some traveling and see some friends in Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Florida, New York, and of course Massachusetts! I'm tired and really looking forward to getting back to Cork - but it was a great trip.