June 24

The morning does not start well. My sister Colette comes and wakes me to say we have no water. I realize we are on a well system so I go and check to make sure a fuse has not tripped. All the fuses are fine, by this point everyone is beginning to stir and looking for water to brush their teeth, get washed, or use the bathroom no luck. My brother Eamon is outside looking around to see if anything was overlooked and runs into a neighbor who lives there year round. He says the water comes from a pump on the other side of the mountain and he also has no water. He says from time to time this happens and it shouldn’t be long for the water to come back on. Time we don’t have, so get everyone moving luggage in the car, last minute clean up and we are on our way to the airport. The ride is about an hour and half, drop everyone off with the luggage and Colette, Eamon and myself take the cars back to the rental agency which is off site. How we find our way back to car rental I’ll never know, pure luck. This will be the last of our luck. We arrive back at the airport to meet up with everyone with time to spare. As our boarding time approaches we are informed that there is a strict weight and size requirement for our luggage. The plane we are flying is a smaller Prop style which holds about 35 people. The excitement begins, first to check in is Shelia, and she has one bag is over by a few Kg. she throws out a pair of shoes and feminine products and she is good. Eamon goes next and he has to pay for an extra bag because of the weight. Colette, Pop and I make it through with no problems.
The plane ride from Belfast to Liverpool is 50 minutes. As the plane takes off we pass over the Harland and Wolff ship building yard. This is where the Titanic was built. As we fly over the ship yard you can see the enormous dry docks and just imagine the many ships that were constructed here. Belfast in its heyday was once the largest ship builder in the world. Still in business but not with the vigor of time gone bye.
At the Manchester airport we collect our belongings and find our way to rental car. We a little maneuvering we find it. Colette, Eamon and I go inside leave all the rest with the luggage. At the counter we find out that the cars we had reserved are gone. The person behind the counter informs us that we were scheduled to pick up the cars at 12:00 pm and it is now 7:00 pm so another agency needed them and the cars were released to them thinking we were not coming. (I told you our luck ran out) Here we are at Manchester airport without any mode of transportation. After some funny looks back and forth we needed to figure how we are getting to my cousins house in Liverpool. The rental agency had one car that came back in so my sister Colette and Pop would take that with as much luggage as possible, we would take a train into Liverpool with the rest of the luggage..
So we gather everyone and make our way to the train which is in the airport catch the 8:30 train to Liverpool. This is about an hour ride once at Lime Street We contact my cousin. Her husband Ray, daughter-in-law Natalie and Colette come to pick us up.
A short ride we arrive at my Cousin Katrina’s house. I had been here one time before when my grandmother passed away in 1994. It’s the same as I remember a beautiful Victorian style house over looking the beach and the Mersey River. Inside the foyer opens to these 12-15 feet ceilings. It has eight bedrooms. We get settled and tell our story of our adventures for the day now that we are here I guess we can all laugh about it now. Matter of fact the train ride was fun, I think everyone enjoyed it and gave us time to relax and let the days problems slip away. After room assignments I head of to get some sleep
GOOD NIGHT.