Day 10 - Dublin, Ireland

After a good night of sleep we were so pleased to wake up to partly cloudy skies. It just was a bummer to spend all the days in the country and not be able to hike around and enjoy the beautiful scenery because it was pouring down rain with gale force winds. But with the new day and sun we rebounded nicely and adjusted our attitudes and decided to walk all day.

This being Monday, the museums were closed, so we decided to take advantage of the great weather and walk around and perhaps find Dave a replacement double D black leather belt. No luck but he did find a shirt. We then heard about the street market, but it ended up being produce, flowers, and meats.

We toured around on the double decker buses with live commentary. The Irish are witty and love to spin a yarn. We heard many versions of the same story. The Irish are also a fiercely independent people that are still battling to maintain some independence.

We ate a fabulous dinner at Marco Pierre White, he is the chef that made Gordon Ramsey, Hell's Kitchen chef, cry.

YEAH! A sunny day!

Paddy, a true Irish man....he sold us tickets which was like a whole comedy show and he made sure we got on the correct bus.

We spent the day on the "hop on hop off" city tour bus. Very entertaining.

We've been seeing people with Penneys bag on our entire trip so we went in to take a peek. Not sure how to describe it. The quality is like Banana Republic but at Target prices, or Ireland's H&M. Dave bought a shirt for 3 Euro.

You wouldn't see "oriental" in the States

This is what we found in the street market. What you can't see is the fly!

They don't change diapers, they change their "nappy"

This is another Irish cathedral

A walk around Christ Church looking for Carolyn's fish and chips joint which was not to be found anywhere so we ate at O'Neill's. They had a black light in the ladie's toilet! And then the guys told us they had a black light in the men's toilet at Burger King (no we didn't eat there, just used the facilities). We're dying to know why they have a black light in the toilet. On second thought, maybe we don't want to know. We continue to find clean toilets readily available.

R & M Treated us to Starbuck's with the international card.

Michael ran a 10k on the treadmill while the rest of us napped/read.

Here's one more look at a sunny day.

This is how we end our day....the guys have an Irish coffee, the girls drink tea and blog...the guys do some dictation and we type.