Limerick

On Thursday morning, October 15th, I met Steph and Lindsay at the bus station to get on our way to Limerick. We arrived in Limerick, found our hotel and then proceeded to King John's Castle. King John's castle is in town and was a little bit smaller than the other castle's I've seen. We still thought it was pretty cool and got a beautiful view of the city. They even have an archaological dig area because part of the city fell. I find that kind of stuff really fascinating!

After the castle, we walked to the centre and found a cute little place to eat. I thought it was quite delicious. I made Steph try her first Bulmer's cider beer, because she didn't like the Guinness.

When we were on our way back to the hotel, we saw some swans and almost got close enough to pet them! At the hotel, Lindsay and I decided to check out the pool. The exciting thing about that was we were required to wear swimcaps...That was pretty funny!

When I got done swimming, Steph and I went to find some traditional Irish music. We went to a place on the map that said there was music, however they were closing. The nice lady there gave us directions going back the other direction to a place much closer to our hotel. We enjoyed some fiddling and good conversation. We headed back to the hotel and crashed so we could get up early and see the Bunratty Castle.

Friday, we left the hotel and got on a bus to the Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. It was AWESOME! There was a really cool huge castle that is set up much like it would have been in the 16th century. They also have many acres of land to be set up like an old Irish countryside/village. It was so much fun!! It was like Bonanzaville, except bigger and had a castle. We left there just in time to get on another bus and head to Dublin!