Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Day 3 and 4

This day we were in the town Tralee. We went to Mucross House, which was another castle at a big park and lake and path that went into the forest with BEAUTIFUL GREEN trees and rocks and streams and waterfalls. It was like we were in a little fairytale land. The siblings with their mom.
See the GREEN trees and rocks?
We took a carraige ride back into the forest.
We had the cutest little old Irish Man as our driver. He had the strongest accent and sang us Irish songs on our ride:)



Me and Shayna
Dave and Stace on the carriage ride.
Then we drove into the middle of a big mountain range to the Gap of Dunloe.
The boys skipping rocks.
We hiked up this little mountain just for fun, but the fun part was running down. It's some kind of mossy grass that was SO spongy. Me and Deirdre had so much fun bouncing down this mountain.
We felt like we were in the movie Lord of the Rings at this place.
Stacey kept saying he just wanted to chase some sheep. We drove up to a bunch of sheep in the road so Dave and Stace got out.
I have to add that Stacey almost killed us 10 times driving home. We got a little lost in the middle of this huge mountain range trying to get out. And it started to get dark. Notice the road in the picture below. It's barely wide enough for our car to drive on. We were going around all these twists and turns and you had no idea if a car was coming head on. And the craziest part we saw a speed sign that said 100km (which is about 75 mph) NO idea why they would put that on this road but Stacey took it literally and tried to go that fast. We were all dillusional at that point and I can't believe we made it out alive. Michelle and Dre were about throwing up in the car behind us. The next morning we got up and decided to go on a nice bike ride. Also to mention is that this time of year in Ireland it's supposed to be rainy everyday- we had 6 days in a row with all sunshine. SO blessed.
We road our bikes to Ross Castle.

Me storming the castle.

Later that day we headed to the Dingle Penninsula. Look who gets the prime realestate in Ireland. The cows and the sheep always and the nice green land right on the water.
All the siblings with their mom- how cute is this pic?
Just chucking rocks off the cliff.
The town of Dingle. I think this was my favorite town. They do this a lot in Ireland but especially in this town- Every house or shop was painted a bright color. I LOVED it!! It totally made me want to come home and paint my house bright blue with a bright yellow or red door! (I don't think my HOA would let me)
LOVE this sign. It's just fun to say "O'FLAHERTY'S"

This is the color I want my house someday!
And maybe with this color of door:) There were SO many bright colored doors everywhere. It's so fun.
More skipping down the street.
We saw this beautiful beach on our drive. The boys were having some fun??
Dave, Dre, and Stace.

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