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After a rocky start – pissed fat guy staggering around the hotel lobby whilst a particularly crabby woman checked us in slowly – our first day here turned out really well. The people are really friendly even though I am using the tried and tested English method of conversing with foreigners – speak slowly and loudly -
prices are so good you overspend and the quality of local food, drink and wares seems high.
Very hot sunny weather but with a refreshing breeze off of the Black Sea. The final big surprise was that the hotel not only has wireless, which I was not expecting, but it is free.
Looking forward to the dolphin show and the pirate ship thingy. For tomorrow though I think just bucket and spades down on the beach, time to earn my holiday “wings” as a dad and let my boys bury me in the sand.
A great day out at the Moycarn Lodge in Ballinasloe. 
The event was organised as a fundraiser for The Ballinasloe Musical Society and was great fun for the adults and children
that attended. My boys were outside playing and joining in all the events, which included soccer shoot outs, three legged and egg & spoon races.
There were adult heats of these races also and I got pipped at the post to come in second or possibly third in the egg & spoon race, got myself a Honk T-Shirt for my trouble all the same.
Even though the weather was a little shakey, it stayed mainly dry if somewhat cold. Congratulations to the Moycarn and the Musical Society for a fun (and free) day out.
We didn’t win the duck race though! 
The well deserved winner of the Ballinasloe St. Patrick’s day parade
