Happy Saint Patrick's Day 2009

In honor of Saint Patrick's Day 2009 I thought that I'd post some pictures from our trip to Ireland (from a few years back). We were in Ireland in March 2006 and in Dublin for the St. Patrick's Parade. Ireland was beautiful and very green but it was very cold and we didn't see a whole lot of sun during our visit. All in all we spent a week there and did a lot of sight seeing. We rented a nice cottage in the Killarney area



A real Irish bar!





Some people enjoying the big parade (boy was it cold that day!)

We made the long drive to Dublin for the St. Patrick's Day parade. Ireland has a lot of beautiful scenery but there roads aren't that great (at least the ones that we were on) and it doesn't seem as thought there are a whole lot of highways that you can take that allow you to drive any great distance quickly. We didn't factor in enough travel time, so we didn't really have enough time to find a good place to watch the parade and moved around trying to find a good place to watch the parade (we had to consider that we needed a place where two small kids could watch as well). We eventually gave up and looked around the city in search of a place to have lunch. We ended up eating at a Johnny Rockets, it had been a while since I had a decent burger, so I enjoyed it.




A real Irish cemetery

There was an Abbey and old cemetery nearby. The cemetery was very interesting, complete with sayings on the tombstones that the Irish are world renown for. The sunset over the lake by the cemetery was breathtaking.


The sun going down over a lake by an Irish cemetery



The Cliffs of Mohr

The Cliffs of Mohr are amazing and pictures can't do it justice. With a strong wind blowing off the ocean, it was very cold, chilling to the bone in fact.


The Cliffs of Mohr


A castle at the Cliffs of Mohr


We had a great trip to Ireland and hope that we can go back again sometime in the future. You can see more pictures from our trip to Ireland taken in March 2006 @Flickr. Happy Saint Patrick's Day!