Turvey Abbey: Arrival

Freeman has known Veronica (aka Sr. Johanna Marie) since his freshman year in college. In fact, they were in the same group for their first college project. So several years ago, after Veronica decided to pursue her vocational calling to monastic life at Turvey Abbey, she asked us to be at her Final Profession. We are so excited that we were able to join her for the event, and visit with her for a few days.

(So, the original purpose of this trip was to visit Turvey Abbey for Veronica's ceremony. How we ended up biking across Ireland--who knows!?)

We arrived at the Abbey on Thursday afternoon and after settling in, joined some fellow Blue Demons for dinner.

Hamilton and Jenny called it a night pretty early...but Freeman wanted to check out the town before turning in. He discovered that Turvey is a very pretty town that looks like this...



At the edge of town, there was a field of cows who were very interested in Freeman. As he went to take pictures of the sunset (at 9:30 pm), they got closer...

...and closer......and closer.