Last weekend, we went to Dublin, Ireland! I have wanted to go there since forever! It's been on my list of "top 10 things I want to do in life" and now I can cross it off! It is a great city and we had a blast. I definitely want to go back again.
The Dublin we saw perhaps wasn't the Dublin I would've seen 10 years ago if I had gone with Denise, Mike, and Jake when they went, but someone did throw up! This time, it wasn't from too much Guiness-poor Lainey (and poor bus driver) got sick on the bus tour to Malahide Castle and Dublin Bay. Luckily, she got sick in the last 20 minutes of the trip and it was a pretty empty bus.
Aside from that incident, we had fun. We certainly had the "luck of the Irish" with us the first day! When we got to our hotel, our room wasn't ready so they upgraded us to a penthouse suite-not bad! We now know why this type of room is called a "suite"-it was SWEET! It had 2 bedrooms and a living room/kitchen complete with washer which came in handy when Lainey got sick. It was in a great location, right off St. Stephen's Green, which is like their version of Central Park. The tulips were already blooming there! We had fun at the playground and wandering over the bridges and running around on the green grass-no snow there!
We got lucky again that day when we went into our first real Irish pub. We ordered our lunch, and the waitress brought out a free pint of some cider they were promoting for each of us! Yipee again!
The rest of the weekend was great too. We did a double-decker bus tour, which pleased our kids to no end. They love double-decker transportation of any kind! We toured the Guiness Storehouse, visited the historic gaol (jail), saw the Molly Malone statue, sipped a Jameson's at the whisky factory, and learned some Irish dancing! The kids really enjoyed the Irish music and dancing. They were so funny trying to keep up with the steps.
We took a guest on the trip with us. Flat Stanley. He's a character from a book that my friend Michelle's daughter sent us to take pictures with as part of a school project. We had fun taking pictures with him, but I'm sure others thought we were crazy! Hopefully, her daughter will be happy with how far her Stanley went!
Here are some pics from the trip:
Jason and the kids with Molly Malone-my kids can sing most of the song now thanks to the music and dance show we went to.
My personal favorite picture of Flat Stanley. Somehow, I don't think this one is a good one for the class project though!
Fun times in the souvenir store.
Atop of the Guiness Storehouse where you get your "free" pint (after paying 14 euros to take the tour). We had an awesome 360 degree view of the city and some extremely fresh pints of Guiness (the kids had Sprite:)
Slainte! Tasting room at Guiness (we probably won't win any parenting awards for taking our kids to the Guiness factory, but there were many other kids there, too! Besides, our last big trip was to Disneyland Paris-one for the kids, one for the parents:)
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