So, once again I have traveled to and returned from my favorite country, and once again I can't believe it has all gone by so quickly. It's been over a week since I touched down stateside and amidst getting back into my normal routine and all the research I've been doing for various papers, I've begun to miss the emerald isle as I did before, and wonder when I'll be lucky enough to find myself there again. Of course, while missing and researching and working and binge-watching Gilmore Girls, I am also outrageously grateful that I was able to take ten days to visit Ireland after two years of longing-filled absence. As expected, It. Was. Incredible. There were places I had been before that we visited, and I felt somehow like I was coming home; there were places I had never stepped foot and I was awed and humbled by the outrageous beauty of God's creation; and even after spending months on end studying parts of this country and its history, it still surprised a