Thursday of Spring Break

We woke up around 8 (late) on Thursday because we had a tour of Wicklow National Park planned for the day. We showered and grabbed breakfast at the café again and met our bus at 9:30am. I just have to tell you that I was SO excited for this tour. As most of you know, I am obsessed with the movie P.S. I Love You. In the movie, the two main characters meet in Wicklow National Park and they fall in love, yada yada yada. I was sooo excited to see everything!
We took a quick stop at the ocean in Dun Laoghaire (where the B&B is in P.S. I Love You) to take some pictures and then headed to Wicklow. There is a part of the park (a very very small part) that is actually German soil. A little part of Germany in Ireland. During the Second World War, there were a few German planes that crash-landed in Ireland and their passengers and pilots died. They were buried in Wicklow and after the war Germany wanted them back on German soil. Rather then exhume the bodies and ship them back to Germany (which could get messy) Ireland decided to give the plot of land where the bodies were buried to Germany. Hence, there is a little part of Germany in Ireland.
So we toured Wicklow inside the bus (saw the ROAD from P.S. I Love You), and eventually we stopped at the top of one of the massive mountains there. We got out of the bus and the driver (with his Irish accent) said “If you have to take a pee…..pick a tree”. After walking around the massive CLIFFS (cliff picture) and almost slipping five million we headed back to the bus and were greeted with a shot of Jameson Whiskey. HAHA Love Ireland. Apparently nothing is fully completed unless you drink alcohol at the same time.
We got back on the bus and drove to Glendalough. We stopped for lunch at a pub, but instead of eating Christine and I bought some postcards and stamps and wrote a few letters. Back on the bus, we learned about St. Kevin and his ministry in Ireland. We reached some park in Glendalough (I forget the name). We saw the building where St. Kevin and his followers slept and the chapel that they used. We found this really cool U-shaped tree and took pictures on it. Then we walked for a little while and came across some lakes and stuff. Back to the bus again. We drove back to Dublin and got dropped off SOO far away from our hotel, so we took a cab again Before you think that it’s nice to take cabs everywhere, let me tell you…this cabbie was a little old man…WHO SMELLED SOOOO BAD! We were holding out breath for like 10 minutes!
We grabbed dinner at the hotel and got ready to leave for the airport. After mixing up busses like crazy again, we found the right one and went to the airport. We made it through check-in quickly and boarded our flight. My ears were killing on the flight because I was sick but we made it to Heathrow in London and caught another bus to our hotel. We checked in and called it a night since it was around 1am when we finally got settled.