Dublin--Part 1

After a good night's sleep we ate breakfast in the hotel which was included with the room. We each got the Irish full. We will get this again so we'll include a picture next time. Let's just say we weren't hungry till about 2! We then headed to the LUAS which is the light rail train and took it to the city center. We had decided that we were going to do one of the hop on-hop off buses and it was well worth it! All the buses are double decker and the one we went on also was uncovered for the back part. It was fun to see the sights from the top!



We first went to Trinity College and had a tour of some of the historical parts of the campus.
This is the bell tower (Campanile) that is supposedly really well known. It has intricate carving all over it.

This is one of the residence halls--Dad said it was Hogwarts!

Here is the library where the Book of Kells is kept. It was amazing to see the method of how they wrote and illustrated this beautiful work.


We thought this was a cool sign!

This building had amazing carving all over. It was really hard to capture the detail. Dad's in this to prove we were actually there!

After the tour and seeing the Book of Kells, we ate our pb&j on a bench at the cricket field. We enjoyed the breeze and then headed back to hop back on the bus.