Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Explanation for Picture # 2

The explanation to picture #2 is simply one of the coolest things you do while you're in Ireland. If you don't do this while you're in Ireland, you haven't "done it all". What that guy is doing is kissing the "Blarney Stone". This stone is constructed in the Blarney Castle in Cork, Ireland, and to kiss it, you have to lay on your back, use the iron rods to stablize and hoist yourself up, then you kiss the stone while you're upside down. It's an old Irish fable that it brings you luck and love (a lot of people say that you will get "lucky" the day that you kiss the stone, too). To read a little bit more about it, go here.

1 comments:

Erica said...

I've heard of the 'blarney stone' but never what it was or meant. Thank you for enlightening me! I would love to travel abroad, but I'm not really obsessed with one particular place. Maybe I'll pick one to become obsessed about! That way I'll have a goal that maybe I can accomplish in this life time!