Back home again!!

Well, I'm sad to say our wonderful trip to Ireland ended. The flight back was usual, pretty boring. at the Chicago airport, we called our grandma Marilou (dad's side). No interuptions on that flight either. See everyone reading this soon!!!

-Annika ;)

home at last

Yesterday was the first day in my life that was Twenty nine hours long. The flight was boring but I had a window seat so I was pretty much good. Then we got to the Chicago airport and got our baggage on to our other flight and went to our gate. Our flight  from Dublin got in at about twelve thirty and we left at four fifteen so we had a couple hours to wait. When we got to our gate I saw Shahil (one of my friends from school) coming back from India.

The flight to Little Rock was only about an hour and a half and I still have not been able to pop my ears and its really hard. We took a cab back to our house and went to bed almost immediatly. 

dublins last day

Today was our last day in Dublin and we rushed to see a lot so we got on the bus and headed over to St. Patricks Cathedral. It was really big but we didn't spend a whole lot of time there.

Then we went to Dublin castle and took a tour of the main castle.

Then we went we went over to Dublins early jail and took a tour. The jail was really interesting then we went over to the brewery but it was closed so we headed back to the hotel. then we sat around for a while and walked a block or so to go get dinner. Now where spending our last night siting around and watching TV but it was a really fun trip.

Phillip

The last day

Today was cool. when we woke up, we had a quick breakfast and set out on the way to Dublin Castle. It was really cool. When the castle was first built, it had a big gun powder tower. the castle later burned down, and was rebuilt as a courthouse and manor. It is now used to inaugurate irelands president. after this we visited Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Really cool stain glass windows, and a nice monument to the great saint himself. Next we took a bus to the coolest place yet, the Kilmainham Jail. Apparently, many of the famous leaders of the Irish rebelions were kept and executed there. Really interesting. Hope this blog kept you interested in our trip!!

-Annika:)

the last day

Dublin and a horse ride (continued)

After a quick tour around Galway, we headed for Dublin. On the way, we saw an add for horse rides, It sounded fun, so we hung around and rode horses for two hours.Unfortunatly for us, It rained most of the time we were on the horses. On the way to Dublin, I got so tired I skipped dinner, and lay down in the back seat of the car. After we got to Dublin, We crashed at the hotel. Next day, we get up late, and have brunch in the hotel lobby. Next we went to the National meusam, and saw the book of Kells. Pretty cool. We planned to do some more stuff tommorow. In Trinity College, where they keep the book of kells, There was a huge library with marble busts of all the major writers and philosophers. Even though we only knew half of them, It was really cool.

-Annika :)

dublin and a horse ride

Yesterday morning we got up and got packed. Then we walked around the city of Galway for a bit and took a bus tour.

After we got on the road for about a Half an hour we saw a Horse museum and decided to take a stop. We fond out that you can take horse rides so me and my sister signed up. When we got back from the horse rides we were completely soaked. Then we hit the road for Dublin. When we got to Dublin we turned in our rental car and took a bus over to our hotel and it was lights out.

This morning we got up at around ten and went to see the Book of Kells which is a four volume book that each have at least two thousand pages, and there made out of calves skin and there hand written. Each book has tons of keltic pictures painted by hand and wit complex designs.

We got out on to the streets we went to the museum of natural history but you'll find out about that when my sister posts

Phillip