I know this post should have been done a long time ago but oh well. As most of you know Zac and I went to Ireland in March. We had a fantastic time! We stayed with Zac's uncle Paul. He was awesome he even let us barrow his car for the week. (Which was an adventure and a half with Zac learning to drive on the opposite side of the road and drive a stick at the same time!) Anyway here are some pictures of what we did.
This is the town square in Dundalk. (the city where Zac's parents grew up)
This is a random street in Dundalk.
I love this picture. This is St. Patrick Catheral in Dundalk. I think it's a beautiful building.
Meet Chuck Dickens. There were ducks on one end of the canal and chickens on the other. This is what we found in the middle, a duck chicken hybrid (Chuck Dickens).
The monastery tower build in about 1200 AD. The tower is all that's left of the monastary.
Our first night in Ireland Paul and Margy took us to Roche's Castle. Built around 1185 AD.
This is out one of the windows of the castle.
The sun was setting as we got there and there was a mist that made everything beyond the castle look far away. I wish the pictures could do it justice.
This is the Giant's Causeway. Yes this is natural. It happens when lava hits the ocean and it cools quickly, cracking into these hexagonal pillars.
The Ledgend goes that two giants (one in Ireland and one is Scottland) were in a feud. The Scottish giant came over to kill the Irish griant so the Irish one had his wife pretend like he was thier baby. When the Scottish giant saw the "baby" he got scared and didn't want to face the Irish giant so he ran back to Scottland and pulled the causeway up behind him. Leaving only the foundations.
This is the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. Zac's family thought we were crazy for crossing it. It's about 30 meters above the water. And it sways just enough to make your stomache feel crazy weird.
But the view from the other side was totally worth it.
Zac on his way back and the white cliffs to the other side.
This is Newgrange. This is the entrance slab it's covered in celtic art.
Newgrange was built about 500 years before the the Egytian pyramids. It is aligned so that the rising sun of the winter solstice penetrates the back of the passage, and it's the only light all year.
This is the Hill of Tara. Legend goes that the person who toaches the stone and the stone sings is the next high king of Ireland .
The Round Tower at Monsterboice, 5th century monastery. The Celtic crosses were used to teach bible stories to the masses.
Cuchulainn's Stone. This is where the legendary Irish hero died. He and another man fought for three days and three nights and whoever won the battle won the war. After three days they had each mortally wounded each other so Cuchulainn tied himself to this stone so that he would be the "last man standing".
The Proleek Doleman. Around 3000 BC people made dolemans to show the site where a leader or entire village died. The idea was to create an unnatual rock formation.
The view from the mountains northeast of Dundalk.
The veiw from Flagstaff.
King John's Castle. Built by the brother of Richard the Lionheart in 1210. Zac has a picture just like this of everytime he has visited Ireland.
This is inside Trinity College in Dublin. The library hold the Book of Kells (an 800 AD bible).
Elish, Zac, Me, Eugene, and Sadbh (pronounced Sive). Eugene is Zac's uncle on his mom's side.
Zac, Jim Pepper, Grandmas Rose Kearney, Katherine Pepper, and me. Katherine is Ann's cousin, daughter of Gradma Rose's twin sister.
Cecilia, me, Grandpa Kevin Boyle, and Zac. This was our last night in Ireland.
Paul, Margy, Elizabeth, Karl, me and Zac. A night with Donald's brothers and their wives. It was a lot of fun.
This is the town square in Dundalk. (the city where Zac's parents grew up)
This is a random street in Dundalk.
I love this picture. This is St. Patrick Catheral in Dundalk. I think it's a beautiful building.
Meet Chuck Dickens. There were ducks on one end of the canal and chickens on the other. This is what we found in the middle, a duck chicken hybrid (Chuck Dickens).
The monastery tower build in about 1200 AD. The tower is all that's left of the monastary.
Our first night in Ireland Paul and Margy took us to Roche's Castle. Built around 1185 AD.
This is out one of the windows of the castle.
The sun was setting as we got there and there was a mist that made everything beyond the castle look far away. I wish the pictures could do it justice.
This is the Giant's Causeway. Yes this is natural. It happens when lava hits the ocean and it cools quickly, cracking into these hexagonal pillars.
The Ledgend goes that two giants (one in Ireland and one is Scottland) were in a feud. The Scottish giant came over to kill the Irish griant so the Irish one had his wife pretend like he was thier baby. When the Scottish giant saw the "baby" he got scared and didn't want to face the Irish giant so he ran back to Scottland and pulled the causeway up behind him. Leaving only the foundations.
This is the Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. Zac's family thought we were crazy for crossing it. It's about 30 meters above the water. And it sways just enough to make your stomache feel crazy weird.
But the view from the other side was totally worth it.
Zac on his way back and the white cliffs to the other side.
This is Newgrange. This is the entrance slab it's covered in celtic art.
Newgrange was built about 500 years before the the Egytian pyramids. It is aligned so that the rising sun of the winter solstice penetrates the back of the passage, and it's the only light all year.
This is the Hill of Tara. Legend goes that the person who toaches the stone and the stone sings is the next high king of Ireland .
The Round Tower at Monsterboice, 5th century monastery. The Celtic crosses were used to teach bible stories to the masses.
Cuchulainn's Stone. This is where the legendary Irish hero died. He and another man fought for three days and three nights and whoever won the battle won the war. After three days they had each mortally wounded each other so Cuchulainn tied himself to this stone so that he would be the "last man standing". 
The Proleek Doleman. Around 3000 BC people made dolemans to show the site where a leader or entire village died. The idea was to create an unnatual rock formation.
The view from the mountains northeast of Dundalk. 
The veiw from Flagstaff. 
King John's Castle. Built by the brother of Richard the Lionheart in 1210. Zac has a picture just like this of everytime he has visited Ireland.
This is inside Trinity College in Dublin. The library hold the Book of Kells (an 800 AD bible).
Elish, Zac, Me, Eugene, and Sadbh (pronounced Sive). Eugene is Zac's uncle on his mom's side.
Zac, Jim Pepper, Grandmas Rose Kearney, Katherine Pepper, and me. Katherine is Ann's cousin, daughter of Gradma Rose's twin sister.
Cecilia, me, Grandpa Kevin Boyle, and Zac. This was our last night in Ireland. 
Paul, Margy, Elizabeth, Karl, me and Zac. A night with Donald's brothers and their wives. It was a lot of fun. 
2 comments:
Yea Brooke! I'm glad you blogged finally-because I blog so often myself!
You are so super lucky! LOVE the priceless pictures! They look like they are right out of a magazine, but you were really there! SO FUN! YOu need to blog more! :)
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