Day 2: Kilkenny (Irish dancing)

The next morning we had to get up and packed and checked out and breakfasted and luggage dropped off and down to reception by 10 am.  Which wouldn't have been so hard except once again it was 3 am before I could fall asleep and 4 am before Russell could.  

So we were dragging, and tired (and sore from hurling) so it was a bit rough to discover our next challenge was … Irish dancing!   

This was a two part challenge.  First we had to learn a line dance as a pair in a group. When you combine my lack of rhythm with my general physical ineptitude with my sore legs, it was guaranteed we would be less than stellar.

Let's just say even though I was trying to concentrate on the footwork, and ignoring the hopping I was supposed to do, I still looked like a puppet with its strings cut.  Russell, however, wasn't terrible. All those hip-hop dance classes paid off!

The second part of the dance challenge involved learning and then performing an Irish jig.  Which should have been easier, except the jig was split up into two parts. For the first part they took Russell away and taught him the dance. Then he had to come out and teach it to me.  For the second part, I had to teach my part to him.  

Then we had to perform it.  Again, I totally sucked.  And that was even after we after they slowed the tempo down significantly. 

At least we had a lot of fun!Read more