Our last day in town. It was spent as a rainy day in Dublin. We toured Dublin castle first. It's used to hold official meeting and such. Touched up and very modern looking because the original was blown up from a kitchen fire hitting the gun powder room ( Read more... )

Woke up early to have Irish Pooridge again. We sat with Gerri and Lois an hear a very sad tale of Gerris family and the IRA ( Read more... )

We had a "lie-in" for the morning. We got about 8 am and had some breakfast. Most people went into town, but mom and I wanted to stick close. We played Crowns ( Read more... )

We left Letterkenny this morning and headed to New Castle, We stopped in a small town for coffee and scones (biscuts really). Then we headed into the county of Omagh and through the town where Gerri grew up in Tyrone. Quaint town. Into the town of of Armagh where it hold two hills both holding the Cathedrals of St Patrick. The Catholic and the ( Read more... )

We got to the bus at 9 am. Ireland weather had returned. Pouring rain and we couldnt see for miles. We decided a 3 hour tour to the Peninsula we couldnt see wouldnt be able to see was a bad idea. We went to a weavers shop instead to see how Loom Knits were made. We picked up a few items for a few folks there ( Read more... )

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Turns out Im allergic to Ireland. We drove out to Kylmoore Abbey today. We went through Cladagh. A small fishermans town where the ring became famous. The weather was gorgeous. Sunny day most of the time. Funny enough, we saw gorgeous clear skys to our right and left, but up ahead we had thunder and lightning and hail even. I was sick with a ( Read more... )

So Ireland is 5 hours ahead of New Jersey and 8 hours ahead of Oakland. So we get to NJ and it feels like 7pm but its 10. We schedual breakfast for 8 am and it was really 5 am. Is fine, because I'll sleep on the plane. Because we dont get there untill 7 am the next day. But that was 11 pm in Oakland. I was pumpkining big time ( Read more... )

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Hello all. Im not really posting on this LJ anymore. Wanted to ask everyone to add me to my other LJ jordanalexandra
Otherwise it just gets duplicated.

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