Day Four & Five

Day Four


So today we again had to wake up at 5:30 am to get ready & catch our train tour to Cork. lol. We arrived at the train station way early to exchange our vouchers. The train ride to Cork was a little over 2 hours. Once we arrived there, we got onto a tour bus that transported us to Blarney Castle, where we would wait in a good hour long line to kiss the famous Blarney stone. I must say tho, it was a pretty cool experience. The line went through the castle & up the winding staircase, up to the very top of the castle, where you then proceed to lay down on your back, hold two grab bars, and lean backward into this hole, where you can then see that your hanging about 150 ft in the air, all to kiss the wall that has the Blarney Stone embedded into it :)

After we received our gift of gab, we left the castle to grab some lunch & check out some of the tourist shops. We met up at the bus a little later & then drove to a town called Cobe (pronounced cove). It was the Titanic's last stop before it's first & final departure, and as a bonus it is the cutest little town in the world. lol. Our tour guide brought us to this little exhibit about Cobe's siginificance as a port city. It was kind of cool, but I was more amused with the swarm of jelly fish that tricia & I spotted in the bay.

After the long train ride back to Dublin, we headed to the hotel, got all gussied up, and hit the town for our long Friday night :)


Day Five

Day five was a little less fast paced than the day before. We slept in and relaxed for the majority of the afternoon. When we finally left the hotel, we decided to take a trip to the Chester Beatty Library & pick up some fish n chips. Unfortunately, by the time we got there, the Library was closed, along with the fish n chips cafe that we were going to hit. While we worked on what our next move was going to be, we sat & watched a random mens choir sing a few songs (which we still can't figure out why or what they were singing for). It was a pleasently unexpected event :)

After we took of from the library, we walked over to Yamamori Noodles, a fancy Japanese restaurant just down the street from our hotel. I had the BEST sushi of my life. It was super good :) We then headed over to the temple bar area, and back to the hotel to have a few drinks and drift off to a few scary movies :)