Day 18 - Carrownisky Strand
/You remember that brown irish soda bread? Well apparently the chickens can eat it too. Except it needs to be soaked for 30 minutes in water. We had a bit of left over from an older batch so we decided to soak it up and feed it to our awesome chickens that give us eggs every day.
Kian happily took on the task.
Kian about to feed the soaked up bread to the chickens
Then we visited the hen that is now sitting on some eggs. This chicken was getting "broody", as they say here. She kept trying to sit on the egg(s) in the egg bucket (the chickens have a bucket in their shed where they go to lay their eggs, if there is already a chicken in the bucket they lay the eggs around the shed). So now this chicken has her own bucket with a few eggs that she is sitting on. She started on July 7th and we are hoping to see some baby chicks hatch on the 28th! I'll keep you posted on what happens.
Mommy to be? We'll find out on July 28th.
It was a nice enough day by Irish standards. About 20 C and partly cloudy. Time to go to the beach. This time we headed to Carrownisky Strand. There is a surfing school on this beach and you can rent a wet suit and surf boards. No, we did not go surfing, but we did see many more people than on Silver Strand.
Since Hannah has been watching "Dora saves the mermaids" over and over and over again, we felt like it was our duty to build a mermaid kingdom :)
Then it was time to soak our feet a little bit.
Kian waiting for the next wave
Kian running away from said wave that got his pants almost all wet
Hannah also got brave enough to chase the waves, or was it vice versa?
Hannah running away from the waves
We had a great time just running around and then of course collecting more seashells. Once we got back home, the kids were allowed some screen time on their iPads, as we cooked dinner. They decided to play together (the same game at the same time on each iPad) and were all sorts of silly.
Kian and Hannah playing on their iPads
We had charcoal grilled steak with fried onions and potatoes and a little bit of mushrooms.
Charcoal fried steak with fried potatoes and onions
One of my favorite things about cooking all this homemade food and eating all meals as a family is that the kids have been trying all kinds of different foods that they would usually say no to or make a face at back home. Kian tried fried onions and Hannah tried and LOVED mushrooms.
Hurray for being adventurous :)