A Place Called Kilkeel....

We've mentioned before that we've met a lot of nice people here....

Our friends from church, Adam and Lynn, invited us to visit their hometown, Kilkeel, for a weekend.  Kilkeel is near the sea and  Mourne Mountains (where I was in the previous post).  Adam and Casey had been trying to go golfing together for months somewhere around Belfast, so that sort of sparked the trip for all of us to go down to Kilkeel for the weekend.

We stayed at Lynn's parents' house where we learned to play Rummikub on Friday night.  Sadly, the guys won all three rounds...

On Saturday Adam and Casey went golfing and Lynn and I went to a butterfly house and garden!

There were peacocks roaming around the garden!

Bluebells!

I wish I could've had a wedding photo at this little spot...love love love!

Then Lynn took me to Kilkeel harbour and to see Green Castle!

 I wish I had more pictures of the countryside in Kilkeel because there are tons of sheep and rolling green hills.  I did manage to get one....

After that, we met the guys and went to a place called Silent Valley.....

Silent Valley is a reservoir in the Mourne Mountains.  It was a bit cloudy but still beautiful.  The craziest thing happened while we were there.  We asked some people walking by if they would take a picture of the four of us, and after getting the photo we started to chat about where we were from.  The lady who took the photo was from North Carolina like us, but not only that, her husband taught at Southeastern just before we were there!  About that time, her husband walked up and we all had a chat, but it was really strange to be up in the mountains in Northern Ireland and meet people from home!  It really is a small world!

We had a great time with Adam and Lynn and loved seeing another part of the country.