I went to Ireland for 5 weeks Feb 13th to Mar 17th. I did a internship at The Park Hotel in Virginia Co. Cavan. This is the driveway to the hotel. Imagine it at night without any lights trying to lead a slighty tipsy person back to the dorms. I had to brace myself since I'm the one who is afraid of the dark.....




These are the dorms that we stayed in. My room was the one over that door on the right side. I was next to Michal who i called my boyfriend. Haha. We thought it was all in good fun. Then someone told him that's what we called him. He was okay with it. I know he wanted me anyway...haha

We did a lot of things. Or so it seemed. There is only so much you can see in 5 weeks when you are working 4 of the 7 days. We went into Dublin a lot. We went to Trinity College and saw the Book of Kells. We took some pictures before we were told we weren't supposed to. I'll have to load those later. This is Trinity....

Isn't it just beautiful. Look at that blue sky..that's when it isn't raining. It is still lovely when it is raining as you see here. This is the view from the front of the hotel. There is a golf course and then there is the Lough (i think that's gaelic for lake...i'll have to make sure)...There is a nine whole golf course. Part of it crosses over the driveway. Signs say watch out for flying balls. The lake is beautiful. I have a better picture that i will put up later.

We cooked in the kitchen at the Hotel. While i was in the pastry kitchen, I came up with this design for the plates we decorated for desserts. I started trying to to a P and H for Park Hotel then a shamrock. Tony, the pastry checf, suggested that we do a crest. This is what we came up with. We use melted chocolate and colored mango sauce to decorate. These are the Irish colors. We would pipe out this big dollop of whipped cream on the pther side and place the dessert in the middle....

I will have to come back and do more another day. BuT this is a good start