Better late than never, right? So after much deliberation on what to do for our 10th anniversary in May, we decided to go to Ireland! I had been once before for our senior trip, and I said then I would love to back. It was our first time for both of us to be without children since Madelyn was born. Thankfully, that's where FaceTime is super handy. Saturday, we drove to Atlanta (much cheaper than leaving from B'ham). By the time we got to the airport, our flight had already been delayed. Our flight plan was kind of crazy anyway...ATL to Dallas to London to Dublin. It was storming in Dallas, so they kept pushing back our flight. We called the airline, and they quickly moved us to a different flight - directly to London! We actually got there early, but they wouldn't let us take an earlier flight to DUB. Oh well, it was only an hour. When we got to DUB, our luggage didn't appear from the magic belt....grrr. We were told it had been transferred. So we found a place to shop after making it to the hotel, got clothes, groceries, dinner, and chilled. We got to see so many awesome things...cathedrals, castles, colleges (which yes, was a site in itself). We went to the wax museum, natural history museum, archeology museum...visited Dun Laoghaire (which I think was our favorite day)...so much to do. There was really only one thing I wanted to do but didn't get to - go to the modern museum of art (all museums there are free, by the way). The Irish president was in Dublin at the time, and apparently he was holding events there and much of it was closed. It was also on the west side of town, where there isn't much else to do/see except visit the Guinness factory. It truly was a wonderful time for the two of us to spend together. I didn't take many pictures on the iPad (even though it went everywhere with us for mapping purposes), but here are a few :)
Our view from our hotel - the "Black" church (never figured out why it was called that), a school, & restaurant.
The garden if remembrance - it's in the shape of a cross.
Lynch at the vat house
View from our hotel at about 10:30 pm. The sun rose around 4 & fully set around midnight.
Time in Dun Laoghaire (pronounced dun leery)
Another airplane out our window....slightly disconcerting.
