Saturday, June 7, 2014
Ireland 2014 videos posted on YouTube
I posted selected videos from our amazing trip on my YouTube channel (Jerilyn Swann). Go check them out! =)
Friday, June 6, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Home!
As always, it's great to travel, and it's great to come home. We're all back safely and deposited in our homes. Wonderful trip! Thanks to Mimi and Papa for providing much of the funds needed to pull it off - we will remember this for the rest of our lives!!
Monday, June 2, 2014
Last night in Dublin
What a great trip this has been! We took our last dinner in Ireland at a popular Scottish pub, McDonald's. We tried several other proper Irish places to eat, but between the bank holiday (lots of places are closed today) and the ladies' charity races today (what places are open are full of women in yoga pants and spandex), we truly didn't have much else of a choice.
One of numerous Georgian doors, all so pretty
Unitarian Church
These horses are so tall!!
Street vacuumer was fun. He goosed the back of Mitch's leg with the hose and made him jump a little, grinned a huge grin and gave a mischievous little laugh, very cute.
Cheers to our Irish adventure!!
To cap the evening and the trip, everyone got a gelato and we toasted our journey in the middle of Grafton Street. A final walk back through the kids' favorite park, St. Stephen's Green, and we're back in our room getting ready to fly home. Fabulous trip.
Three Musketeers in Dublin
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin
We toured St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin today. It was very ornate and lovely and our whisper-quite tour guide was informative if you were standing within a 3-foot radius of her. ;)
Toophus in front of a very large gold lectern.
One side of the choir area, also where most prestigious Knights of the Order of St. Patrick sit whenever they are there for ceremonies.
Winding staircase up to the organ's pipes
Jonathan Swift was Dean of the Cathedral in the early 1700's. He is buried there (vertically, by his insistence) next to his best friend, Stella Johnson
Floor tiles were redone as part of the Guinness restoration in the 1890's. They're beautiful.
'Have an Irish Coffee, for fook's sake'
As we were all walking through Dingle, a drunk proprietor of a music store asked me if I would like an Irish coffee, and I tried to politely decline. It was 7:30 in the evening and I wasn't at all interested. Bill joined us and he offered Bill the same. He also politely declined. The proprietor looked at us like we were crazy. He said, 'It's available. It's already made up. It's AVAILABLE! For fook's sake, have a coffee!'
'Available' means 'free'. He couldn't understand why we were turning down free alcohol. =)
Walking around Dublin - Mitch's tooth
Well, we didn't look at our guidebooks early enough to realize that we should've gone to the museums on Sunday - all the museums are closed on Monday (today). So, we're walking around, getting the last bits of shopping in. We stopped at the park for the kids to enjoy the playground. Mitch got on the little rocking horse toys that are designed for 3-4 year olds. Was load-testing and stretch-testing it and popped himself in the mouth with it - broke part of his front tooth off. Could've been worse.
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