We made it!

First view of the Emerald Isle

Slept 'nary a wink on the planes during our journey to the Emerald Isle, but we did reach our beloved destination on time and in one piece (well, two pieces).  I'm not sure Carrie will ever recover her nerves from our drive into the central city of Dublin (swears I almost clipped a bus on our left side - I'm pretty sure there were a couple of centimeters of clearance).  P.S., I'm all European now, using the metric system and everything.  But, we made it to our Hotel/Pub, Farrington's of Temple Bar, had two Guinness' and a V&T for my baby, then took a 2 hour nap.



I can do it!



We got up just in time to clean up and go take the Guinness tour - we highly recommend this.  The view from the Gravity Bar is quite amazing.  We went back to Temple Bar, had an amazing dinner (my Guiness stew and Boxtie Cakes will remain in my flavor memory for some time).  We finished up the evening with visits to the actual Temple Bar (see photo of bar - that's it) and a couple of others whose name now escapes me but were awesome.  Now, on to the motherland of Donegal today - more later!

Gravity Bar - Guinness Storehouse

THE Temple Bar (what a classic pub)

My first Guinness on the Island