We woke up eager to go explore Killarney National Park.
After our full Irish breakfast of course, served to us by our lovely B&B hostess.
(The Irish bread was a favorite of both of ours.)
We came to Torc Waterfall first.
As we were walking up, Hayden noticed that it looked familiar...from a home movie he had seen.
Brian & I had been to the this very spot together, 13 years before.
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It was a beautiful area!
So green and lush.
Hayden and I carried on up past the waterfall. Something that Brian & I didn't do 13 years before, as I was pregnant with Ronan at the time.
Beautiful view of Middle Lake from up there.
After our hike, we took a Jaunty ride.
(This was not our driver, as I forgot to take a picture!)
We got a beautiful view through the park.
And throughly enjoyed our conversation with our guide!
He took us to Muckross House and gardens, which was ver beautiful.
He told us it is a 'Calendar House', with 365 windows, 52 chimneys,
We had a fun time exploring the gardens around the house as well.
Hayden found theses stone paths through the trees that he thought his brothers and sisters would love to explore on!
Next stop on our Jaunty ride was Muckross Abbey...
A beautiful ruined abbey from the 1400's on the Muckross grounds.
We had fun exploring it.
We really could of spent much more time there (which was really the story of our whole trip), but had to move on.
In the morning, just after breakfast, we stopped at a grocery store and bought food for lunches for the week. We knew we would be pressed for time this week, and this way we didn't have to waste time (or money) trying to find a place to eat lunch.
We stopped at Lady's View in Killarney to have our lunch, a beautiful place for it!
Then time to start driving up to Galway.
We stopped at Bunratty Castle on our way north.
It was a wonderfully intact castle from the 1400's that we got to explore through.
Bunratty also has the entire medieval village surrounding it as well. You get to walk around and visit the different merchants and such as they are going about their typical daily routine.
I kept thinking that the other kids would of LOVED this place, and it is somewhere you could easily spend and entire day! They also serve a medieval dinner in the castle in the evening.
But, we had to be on our way...
Hayden thought this was so cool that you could get kerosene at the pump.
We made it up to our B&B in Oughterard (just Northwest of Galway).
It was an amazing little place right on the water.
So quiet and nice.
Hayden and I walked into the town center after getting settled in to have dinner at the local pub.
Irish Stew tonight-another yummy dinner!
We walked around the countryside near the B&B in the evening. It was nice to take a walk at 10:00pm, and have the sun still in the sky.
Here's our journey thus far.
(We've only be in the country for 35 hours now)
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