dingle, dublin, edinburgh and more!

its been a while. i've been busy...

grace gave john the puppy eye's and convinced him to take us all to dingle in their car. it was awesome. the drive was beautiful. much of it was on the coast or at the mouth of the shannon river. there were rolling hills as far as the eye could see and they had large gridlike patterns on them that on closer view were stone walls some with greenery growing out of them. dingle was truly breathtaking. kelly was very happy. 'i have been appeased' she proudly stated. we drove to the end of the penninsula and walked down into a beachy area where we were told 'several movies have been filmed there'. we grabbed some bbq fajitas on the way home and crashed (in sleep not a car crash) when we got back to limerick.

the next morning we slept in and missed our intended train to dublin. i set the alarm but didn't engage it. classic. luckily there was another an hour later which we grabbed. we stored our luggage at the bus station lockers and spent the day walking around. it was rainy most of the day which puts a minor dab on it all. we looked through the beatty archives inside of the dublin castle area which was really cool. they had a great ancient biblical texts collection. we saw some pieces of the gospels all the way from the 2nd century...very early copies of the originals. we spent a lot of time shopping and looking for something specific for a certain family member but never found it. we bussed to the airport to jump over to edinburgh (edinborough) on a very late ryanair flight.