Monday, August 18, 2008

Our trip to Ireland - Part 1

So now for our stories from Ireland. We started out on Sat., Aug 9th. We flew from Austin to JFK first and we got moved up to first class. It was awesome. It was around Connor's lunch time. We attempted to feed him on the plane and he fell asleep in the middle of it. We spent about 6 hours at JFK before catching our plane to Shannon. Unfortunately, the plane from Atlanta with 8 members of our group didn't get in in time and the plane took off without them. They ended up having a really rough time and spending the night in NY. So sorry for them!

Meanwhile, we had a good trip. Connor slept until about an hour before we landed which was about 8:30am Ireland time. So we fed him breakfast and pretended that was our time. Dave and I on the other hand stayed up the whole 2 days...we all slept well Sunday night!


We decided to explore the castle grounds our first day. It was very pretty. They had a peacock family and deer living on the property.

The part of the castle on the right in this picture is the part that is restored. The castle was burned down in 1921 by the IRA. There used to be a third floor and this side came out much farther. On our last day they took us on a tour of this tower on the left...more pictures to follow of that.

Springfield Castle from the front.

Cliffs of Mohr....It was raining and cold. This is the only picture we have from there. Connor and I spent most of the time here in the car. We did meet up with the "missing 8" while we were here and went to have dinner and hear their travel story.


On Tuesday we went on a bus tour of the Ring of Kerry. It's a 110km ring of road around County Kerry (I think). It was a gross morning, but the sun came out as the day went on. It was sooooo beautiful. It made you want to move to Ireland.



My Uncle Roger and Aunt Nancy met up with us for this part of our visit. I think we all had a great time and agreed this was our favorite part of the trip.


I called this the Guiness River. It looked like it was beer flowing down river. I had to hold Dave back. I thought he might just jump right in.


At the end of this tour we saw a rainbow as we came into town. If you look closely just over the trees, you can see it too! We split from the group when we got back to town. We had to go in search of diapers!

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