tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25618964126440526852023-11-16T05:24:26.573-08:00The O'Eldredges in IrelandA description of the Eldredge family's travels throughout Ireland.O'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-61184796885643295182013-07-03T13:12:00.001-07:002013-07-03T13:12:08.605-07:00Day #22, #23 - Viking Splash, Grafton Street, Photo Shoot, and Trim CastleHello readers! <br />
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So, let's start with yesterday, shall we?<br />
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We started the day by driving over to Dublin. There, we would soon meet our buddies Cathy and Shannon, along with their Spanish friend, Paola, at the Viking Splash Tour. <br />
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You see, this wasn't any normal, boring bus tour; this bus was a boat, too! Driving straight into the water was the weirdest thing. The tour guide said that it "goes against every natural instinct" to do that, and I see why!<br />
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After that, my mum and I couldn't resist visiting Grafton Street one last time! <br />
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When we bought way more stuff that we should have, we went to a nice place for dinner with Shane, Colette, and Cathy called Mario's in Sandymount. We all agreed that the food was fantastic!<br />
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Once our stomachs were nice and full, we headed over to our friend Agata's photo studio, Dlight Studios, for our very first family photo shoot!<br />
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Although some say that modeling is hard work, to us it was just a lot of fun!<br />
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Today, we said farewell to our home away from home in Blainroe. It was so kind of Colette to let us stay in her house. (Thank you!) After that, we were on the road, headed to Trim Castle. Trivia fact: The movie <i>Braveheart </i>was filmed there in 1994.<br />
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We didn't have enough time to go on the tour, but just walking around and looking at the ruins was incredible!<br />
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A couple of hours later, we checked into the Hilton Hotel (which, as I learned today, is owned by Paris Hilton's father). We will only be staying here for one night, and tomorrow morning we will be waking up at 6:00 sharp to catch the shuttle to the airport.<br />
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I am so sad that we are leaving; Ireland is so amazing! I'm sure that getting back home will be a big relief for all of us, though. <br />
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By the way, I probably won't have time to post again tomorrow, with all of the chaos with airports and flights and such. (In case any of you were wondering, we are taking an 8-hour flight from Dublin to Chicago, Illinois, then another 4-hour flight from Chicago to San Francisco.) In that case, this may be the last O'Eldredges blog post! How tragic! You know, this blog has really grown on me. I will have to think about the "Keeping Up with the Eldrashians" blog, Lori!<br />
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Thank you all so much for reading the blog and making the whole concept so fun! You are all super-supportive, and I'm really glad that most of you enjoyed reading it. <br />
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Oh, I almost forgot to tell you: We have driven exactly 3,618 kilometers overall during our trip. For those of you in America, I'll leave it to you to convert that into miles.<br />
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Well, I will see a lot of you back home in California, which we are all looking forward to. But for now, have a great rest of your day!<br />
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<i>Slan go foill! Tabhair aire!</i><br />
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<i>Slainte!</i><br />
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-Megan<br />
<br />O'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-19832234531410301672013-07-01T16:10:00.000-07:002013-07-01T16:10:26.741-07:00Day #21 - Avoca and Sugarloaf Mountain Hi everyone! <br />
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Hey, would someone do my a favor and comment and tell me whether that post that I tried to publish earlier posted? I would really appreciate it, because I can see it, but I'm not sure if everybody else can. Thank you!<br />
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Anyway, today we drove down to a store/restaurant called Avoca Hand Weavers. Colette also met up with us there, so it was wonderful to see her.<br />
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After we had some tea and snacks from the food section, we walked around the actual store. It was huge! They had home appliances, men and women's clothes, jewelry, books, a kids' section, a garden section, and more! We spent a lot of time in the garden; Jack especially liked the hydrangeas.<br />
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When we finally reached flat ground again, we were starved and drove back to Wicklow to grab some dinner from Apache Pizza. We were so hungry that we wolfed down the pizza without taking any pictures (sorry!).<br />
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We promised Jack that we would play tennis afterwards, so we arrived at the court and had only been there for two minutes when we lost our only tennis ball. Oops.<br />
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That's all, folks! Thanks for reading, and check back for more soon!<br />
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<br />O'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-90849778776636934542013-07-01T02:35:00.002-07:002013-07-01T02:35:58.566-07:00Day #20 - The Dublin Zoo<i>Dia duit! </i><br />
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Ugh, Blogger is being annoying again. I tried to post this last night but it didn't work, so every time I say "today" I really mean "yesterday". I hope that makes sense...<br />
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Today, we went all the way to Dublin to visit the Dublin Zoo. <br />
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There was an impressive amount of animals there, and we saw nearly every one of them! Shane also joined us later on, so we had an even better time with him. We took lots of pictures, but most of them didn't turn out so great, so I'll only post the best ones:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Absolutely the most adorable thing I have seen all day: the little baby rhino in the middle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">SO CUTE!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A mother gorilla breastfeeding her baby</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are proud to say that we did all of these things! (just kidding)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And finally, these strange, strange animals</td></tr>
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Afterwards, we drove back to Wicklow, the town a few minutes away from Blainroe, where we found a nice little restaurant called Wynne's. They even had live music! It was very relaxing and the perfect end to our exciting day.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Holden and Jack got popcorn chicken with fries (left), my mum and I ordered the salmon (middle) and dad got sausage with leeks mashed potatoes. Yum!<br />
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O'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-48168637163918172162013-06-29T15:42:00.000-07:002013-06-29T15:42:18.979-07:00Day #19 - The Irish OpenHello again! Today my dad and I went all the way to Carton House Resort to attend the Irish Open.<br />
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The rest of the family, who didn't want to go, enjoyed a "lazy day" at home and around town.<br />
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But back to the Open! After getting lost twice on the way there, we finally made it. We parked right by this neat little castle:<br />
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The entrance was pretty cool to walk through, too. Each sign has a different fact about Ireland on it:<br />
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Once we got in, we bought some food and drinks and began wandering around. We decided to stand at the 16th hole's tee box and watch each player tee off. <br />
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It was amazing to see so many famous golfers so close-up! (Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take any pictures of the golfers whatsoever, so that's why this post will have so few photos.)<br />
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We were walking along when we saw an iPod lying on the ground. Random! We picked it up, of course, but to our disappointment it had a passcode. Whoever set the wallpaper probably wasn't expecting anybody else to see it, though...<br />
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We decided to be good people and turned it into the Lost and Found, which gave all of the people in charge of that booth a good laugh. <br />
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Just before we left, I got a picture with Rory McIlroy, who, although he didn't make the cut, I was lucky enough to meet.<br />
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When we returned to Blainroe, we found Holden, Jack, and Jen all playing tennis on a nearby court. After joining them, we ate a nice dinner at Apache Pizza in Wicklow and came home, where I am currently sitting here typing at the computer.<br />
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And that was our day! Thanks for reading, and I will write more in the near future. <br />
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-MeganO'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-28458026618071552832013-06-29T02:34:00.002-07:002013-06-29T02:34:45.718-07:00Day #16, #17, #18 - Northern IrelandHi everybody! I apologize for not posting for a couple of days, but the lack of time and internet connection has made that a bit difficult.<br />
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Ah, where do I start? Oh yes, the Creevy Pier Hotel!<br />
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When we woke up and finished stuffing all of our junk back into our suitcases, we walked down to the pier one last time before leaving.<br />
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After saying good-bye to Creevy, we began the long journey to Portrush, Northern Ireland. To break up the drive, we stopped at Rossnawlagh Beach.<br />
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We also had a late lunch at a little cafe called Toni's, where I got a meatball-with-melted-cheese-sub, which was probably the best sandwich I've ever had.<br />
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A few hours later, we stopped again; this time at the historic and supposedly haunted Donegal Castle. <br />
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At the front desk, we were told that there were two ghosts on the bottom floor. (At first my dad and brothers thought that she said two <i>goats</i>, so they ran around the castle looking for goats. Classic Eldredges.) Apparently, two different people at two different times reported that they saw two people "huddled in the corner". <br />
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So of course we looked all over for them, but we didn't see anything suspicious.<br />
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And, a little while later, we were relieved to find out that we finally crossed the border into Northern Ireland! <br />
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When we checked into our hotel in the lovely city of Portrush, we were so tired that we decided to call it a day and save the rest of the exploring for the morning.<br />
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The next day, we got out of bed nice and early to head over to the famous Giant's Causeway!<br />
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The weather was beautiful, if you call freezing rain and strong winds beautiful.<br />
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We took a tour of the place with our awesome guide, Neville, who we were lucky enough to get a picture with:<br />
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Despite the dreary weather, the rock formations were absolutely incredible, especially the fact that they are all completely natural and not man-made.<br />
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Here's a picture of me on top of a huge pile of rocks I climbed onto:<br />
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...And the sneaky hitchhiker that I discovered after I got down.<br />
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When we returned to Portrush, we noticed a few arcades around town and Holden and Jack went berserk, as we expected.<br />
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When we went inside, we saw that there were both adults <i>and </i>kids playing the gambling machines. And my family and I, being from America, where children aren't allowed four feet within range of those machines, thought that this was illegal. Turns out that there, people of all ages can play those machines!<br />
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We had the time of our lives in those arcades! <br />
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Today, we went to the Carrick-A-Rede rope bridge, which is very close to the Giant's Causeway. It was built a long time ago by a salmon fisherman so that he could check his nets more easily. The weather was about as good as it was the day before, so getting across the bridge was quite an adventure!<br />
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On the island that the bridge led to, it was so windy that I lost my balance and nearly fell off the cliff several times. If you spread your arms out, you would really feel like you were going to blow away!<br />
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Something very random also happened while we were there, too. When my mom and I were washing our hands in the bathroom, we saw a girl who looked very familiar. My mom asked, "Do I know you from somewhere?" Coincidentally, that lady is our dog Sadie's groomer, and she traveled here while on vacation with her friends. She came to the <i>same exact place</i> on the <i>same exact day</i> at the <i>same exact time</i> as us! All in a completely different country! Weird!<br />
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After we were all nice and soaked, we piled into the car and drove for a couple more hours all the way back to Colette's house in Blainroe, which is the same place where we stayed when we first began our trip! Our loop of Ireland is almost complete!<br />
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Sadly, our trip is almost over, but once we get back home we will be able to see all of our wonderful friends back in California again! <br />
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Well, thanks for being patient time and time again when I don't have time to post anything. The blog is almost at its end, so enjoy these last couple of posts while they last!<br />
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Oh, and I will try to post an update of what we did today, too, so be ready for that!<br />
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<i>Slainte</i>!<br />
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-Megan<br />
<br />O'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-71928047806017580892013-06-26T04:12:00.002-07:002013-06-26T04:12:21.050-07:00Day #14, #15 - Doolin, The Aran Islands, Cliffs of Moher, Cararoe, and Creevy<i>Hola</i>, readers!<br />
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I meant to publish this post last night, but unfortunately it didn't work for some reason. So sorry to keep you waiting, but here it is:<br />
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The day before yesterday was personally one of my favorite days of the entire vacation, so I will start with that...<br />
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Yesterday morning brought a warm, sunny day in Clifden, which was rather unusual and very lucky. We packed up some pillows for the long drive ahead, and we were off!<br />
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We were on our way to Doolin, where a boat would soon whisk us off to the smallest of the Aran Islands, Inisheer. It is so tiny that only 250 people populate the island, and 60 are school kids: about 30 in elementary/primary school and 30 in high school/secondary school.</div>
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We had a nice view of the countryside during the drive, too:</div>
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We arrived at the dock just in the knick of time, as usual. Here is a picture of our boat, <i>Tranquility</i>:</div>
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When we stepped foot onto the island, we were amazed. It was so beautiful! We saw a kind man who offered to take us on a horse-drawn carriage tour of the island. Of course we agreed! </div>
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This is the horse who guided our tour. Her name is Macy.</div>
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The tour guide had lived on that island for his whole life, so he knew a lot about the island and shared some interesting information with us. </div>
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Here are pictures of the island. The fascinating part about those stone walls is that the people who built them didn't use any mortar of any kind; they just balanced the rocks one by one on top of each other. The tour guide told us that up to 100 meters (300 feet) of stone wall could be built in a single day!</div>
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We visited the nearby beach, which was also very charming. The rusty ship in the background was shipwrecked in 1960, and they hauled out each survivor one at a time with a bucket. Later, the boat was robbed of its whiskey, clothes, and copper, and the loot was buried along the beach. It was quickly dug up before the Customs were clued in.</div>
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Plus, there were ruins on the island that are said to have been said to have been built as early as the 4th century:</div>
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After that fun adventure, we took another ferry from the island to the famous Cliffs of Moher. They are ten times as amazing in real life than they are in pictures! Also, did any of you notice that the background picture of the blog is a photo of the Cliffs?</div>
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When we stepped foot on land once again, we were famished. After a bit of driving around, we found a Kentucky Fried Chicken...in Ireland.</div>
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We stopped at Cararoe Beach, which is one of the three coral beaches in Ireland. Its "sand" is made entirely out of little pieces of coral!</div>
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Did I mention that we went to this beach at 10:30 at night?</div>
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Today, we went to Kylemore Abbey, which is a castle and Gothic church that was built in the 1820's. To this day, it is still used as a nunnery and a boarding school for girls. (Thankfully, my parents decided against sending me there; it was very pretty there, though!)<br />
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And...drumroll please...there was a park there! *Audience cheers*</div>
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And here's me, "ignoring my brothers and pretending I wasn't related to them." (My mom's words.)</div>
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My mom wants you all to know that she tried Guiness with Black Currant today for the first time and couldn't believe that she waited so long. (Don't ask me why she waited.)</div>
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My mom and I would also like to note that we have been to a lot of grocery stores in Ireland (Aldi, Tesco, Lidl, etc.), but SuperValu is by far the best. It has a great selection and unbeatable prices, and is unrivaled by the rest of the stores. </div>
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Well, today has been pretty exciting. (Two blog posts in one day?! Unbelievable!) But now it has come to an end, and I must get some rest. </div>
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Yesterday morning, we drove all the way from Clifden to Galway. We were starving when we arrived, so we decided to have lunch at Supermac's again. As we settled down to eat, we saw this from across the restaurant:<br />
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I didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so I sat there and stared at it for a while.</div>
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Turns out, that's Supermac's Bunny, "Super Bunny", and he goes around and hands out balloons to all of the kids. That would be sweet, you know, if he wore a different costume that wasn't so freaky.</div>
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My dad took one for the team and volunteered to go take a picture with him, since Holden, Jack and I all refused to.</div>
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I felt bad for the guy inside the costume, because he was actually really nice, but Super Bunny is just creepy.<br />
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<i>Hey kids, I'm Super Bunny...</i><br />
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Anyway, we wandered around Galway for a bit, occasionally popping into stores that looked interesting.</div>
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Plus, we found a place called Kirwan's Lane. Our ancestor's last name was Kirwan, so it was neat that we found that.</div>
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We also explored some historic spots in Galway, like this Spanish Arch, which was built in 1584:</div>
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After that, we got some tasty soft-serve cones. Jack especially enjoyed his.</div>
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And on our drive back, we found a playground! Yes!</div>
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Even though everything was a little wet from the recent rain, that didn't stop us from having a great time!</div>
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My parents read about this statue in Recess that, if you touched his hand, blessed you with the knowledge of his tribe. So we decided to try it, even though we didn't really expect anything to happen.</div>
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Yesterday, we enjoyed our last breakfast at the Brookmanor Lodge.<br />
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Before saying goodbye to the Brookmanor, we took a picture with the owner, Sandra:<br />
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On the way, we stopped at our friends Hugo and Jo's Old Rectory, which is also known as Free-Range Kids, their summer kid camp. </div>
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We were lucky enough to get a tour of their awesome property. It's a kid's paradise! They have all kinds of animals, plus tons of play equipment and a big yard. You really have to see it to believe it, but here are some pictures for you to get an idea of how fantastic it is:</div>
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After we had played the course too many times to count, we went home for some lunch. Following our meal, we drove around Clifden for a while to see what it was like. At the end of the day, we ate at a place called Lowry's Bar and Restaurant. </div>
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<i>Dia duit gach duine! </i>("Hello everybody" in Gaelic. There, are you happy now Matt!?) Today we started the morning with some nice breakfast courtesy of the Brookmanor Lodge.</div>
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<br />Lori, since you were curious about what the food is like here, I present you with pictures of our food!</div>
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After we were all full of delicious food, we drove to a beach called Inch Strand in the Dingle Peninsula.</div>
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We spent four hours there, and had lots of fun. It was so beautiful!</div>
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Oh, and there's me...</div>
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While we were there, I found this interesting shell. It looks like a sand dollar's Irish cousin, maybe?</div>
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We also found this buoy that looks like a cannonball! Pretty cool, huh?</div>
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It was a long walk from one side of the beach to the other. Conveniently, people on the beach were allowed to drive their cars right on the sand, so Tim and I drove along the shore to go pick up the rest of the family!</div>
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After the beach, we visited the down of Dingle. There were lots of little fun shops around there, so we had a great time. </div>
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<i>Hallo jeder! </i>(That means "Hello everybody" in German.) Today, we woke up in the charming Brookmanor Lodge.</div>
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After breakfast, we drove over to the Ballybunion Golf Course and dropped Tim off to play a round of 18 holes. </div>
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Once we finished those, we made our way down to the town of Ballybunion. There, we found a cute little ice cream shop called Sundaes. They sold <i>huge </i>ice cream sundaes, so of course we had to get some!<div>
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I was feeling a little sick that morning, so I only ran the 5K portion, but Mom ran the whole 9.3 miles! Here's the finish line:</div>
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Here's us eating at the Granville restaurant:</div>
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And we found this very stylish French Fry! He looks a bit like Elvis, doesn't he?...</div>
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Today, once we had eaten a lovely breakfast at the Granville, we decided to go walk around the city of Waterford. We just happened to stumble upon a place called the Reginal's Tower! </div>
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It is a 1,010-year-old castle that was originally built for defense, but was later turned into a museum. It was especially neat for me to see because I recently studied the Middle Ages and the Vikings, so I was rather knowledgeable about that time period beforehand.</div>
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Here are some pictures of inside. Look how thick those stone walls are:</div>
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A while later, we drove about four hours to Tralee. On the way, however, we saw this castle and simply <i>had </i>to stop. </div>
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This is the Linsmore Castle Grounds, one of the oldest castles in Ireland.</div>
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There were also lots of amazing sculptures scattered around:</div>
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After that thrilling experience, we headed over to the train station and took a train from Bray to Dublin.<br />
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While in Dublin, we went to Trinity College. It was very interesting, and the architecture was beautiful.<br />
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We enjoyed watching the street performers, too. Most of them were dressed up in funny costumes:<br />
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On Tuesday, we spent all day on an airplane and most of us got hardly any sleep at all.<br />
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Wednesday, we finally arrived at about 4:00 in the afternoon. We were greeted by our relatives Ray and Cathy Buckley. In honor of the blog, they made this wonderful sign for us:<br />
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Then, we headed down to Wicklow. It was my parents' first time driving down the left side of the road, and on top of that it was raining<i>. . . . </i>Luckily, we all survived. After arriving in Blainroe, we found that our aunt Colette had made a big, delicious dinner for us, which was very kind of her. (Thanks, Colette!) When we had finished, we all fell asleep quickly. I was asleep until 2:30 p.m., so that gives you an idea of how tired we were!<br />
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The next day, my dad (Tim) went golfing at Port Marnock with Ter and Shane walking with them. Shane was kind enough to pick him up and drop him off, which was a huge help. They can't stop describing how beautiful it was! Here's a picture of the clubhouse:<br />
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After they came home, our family and Shane decided to go out for dinner at McDaniel's. The food there was absolutely delicious! And Shane, being ever so kind, declared that it was his treat.<br />
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When we were all full, we drove over to Brittas Bay to look for sea glass. It was so pretty there! Here are some pictures:<br />
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Tonight, we are heading over to Dublin to have dinner at our cousin Tara's house. <br />
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We will share more of our adventures later. Thanks for reading!<br />
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-MeganO'Eldredgeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06495735427034949152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561896412644052685.post-3406564324300008372013-06-10T20:02:00.000-07:002013-06-11T11:19:50.338-07:00Day #1 - Getting Ready<span-class pple-style-span=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">G</span>reetings</span-class>, fellow friends and family, and welcome to the "O'Eldredge's" new blog! (That's our Irish name.) The main purpose of this blog is to describe to you our travels and discoveries in the beautiful country of Ireland. As very many of you know, our family of five will be spending 22 days (about three weeks) there. Our journey begins tomorrow, and we are all <i>very</i> excited! We still have some final things to do before we leave, and by "some" I mean a lot. Hopefully, the little while between now and 12:00 tomorrow afternoon when we leave home will breeze by. <br />
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We are planning on arriving in the capital of the Emerald Isle, Dublin, on June 12th at 2:45 p.m. For fun, here is a picture of that lovely city:<br />
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