Dublin

Our adventure in Ireland started in Dublin. I'll let the pictures give you the details.

Waiting for our apartment key to be delivered. This was after an early morning flight, a taxi ride to our apartment only to find out we couldn't check in early, a walk to another apartment to store our luggage, a walk to find lunch and look around, a walk back to get our luggage, a walk to our apartment only to find out the key was missing. Had there been another chair in the lobby I would have joined them. The girls were amazing troopers!

Reminders painted on the streets to help us poor tourists avoid getting hit while crossing the street. Dublin was my first experience with the whole driving on the opposite side of the street thing. Crossing the street was a bit tricky.

Grafton Street. A popular shopping area.

Temple Bar is the area tourists come to indulge in many a pint of the black stuff.

We saw Toy Story III in 3D on a rainy Sunday. I'm always so surprised when I enjoy kid movies, but this one was great! Funny (love Ken and Big Baby) and sentimental for us mommy types.

We toured the Guinness Storehouse. The building is so cool. It is shaped like a pint glass. We tasted the roasted barley used to make Guinness and enjoyed a pint in the Gravity Bar with a view of Dublin (that would have been marvelous had it not been foggy. Boo Hoo.)

Irish rugby fans off to see a match.

After Dublin we drove (ahem, Bryce drove) directly across Ireland to County Clare. Which we called Clare County until the nice taxi driver gently corrected us. Check back tomorrow!