Ireland

We stayed down the road from Bunratty Castle in Shannon, then traveled by bus to the other cities that we visited. The first day there, we went to Limerick to see the Saint Patricks day parade. The parade had scads of girl scout groups, all in different colors depending on what club they were a part of. They were all singing the same song, and trying to out-sing the other girl scouts...it was really cute.

This is one of the many leprechauns that were included in the festivities.

These street dancers were crazy... too bad I couldn't get my video to work, I wanted to get one of what they were doing. At one point they were all going at the same time, and throwing candy to the kids between their dance moves. Everyone seemed to be having just a really laid back good time.

This was the cutest little girl. She would clap with the music, and even sang along with some of the songs. She was just so little, and looks so adorable in her hat, ... I couldn't help but get a picture of her.

The next day we went to Galway and hung out there. I have pictures, but they don't want to work at the moment and I'm not sure why. It was a fantastic weekend, and we had an amazing time. It ended with spending a night in the Shannon airport, flying for a few hours, then catching a train. The train ended up being stuck for about two hours because of a mysterious package found by the police at the station...the bomb squad apparently had to make sure of what it was. We were never told if it had been a bomb or not, just after a couple hours of sitting on the plane, we were aloud to move on to the station...makes me think it wasn't.
That was one long day.