Western Ireland Adventure! (Cliffs of Moher!)

     Today, we all got up at about 8:30 AM because we were going to drive to the West side of Ireland. After we got up, we went down to have breakfast. We had eggs. To drive to the West side of Ireland, we needed 2 cars. My Dad went to rent a car, and then we had another car in the garage (we had rented that one the day before). We needed 2 cars to fit all Me, Ben, Max, Caleb, My Dad, Sue, and Kitty in. We left at about 10 AM.

     First, I rode with Caleb and My Dad, and Max & Ben rode with My Mom and Sue. We drove for about one and a half hours before we stopped at Athlone. We visited the Castle that was in Athlone, and visited the Church right next to the Castle. Churches in Europe are always so cool to look at we just had to look at it! 

Inside of the Church. 

     We got some cool pictures of us inside of the church. Also some cool pictures of the Castle.

Candles

In the Church. 

Black & White pics by the Castle.

       So that was our stop in Athlone (the Castle and the Church). We then continued to drive Westward. Our next stop was to eat. We stopped at a Restaurant called "The Old Barracsks" It was voted #1 on Trip Advisor for that area. We told the people that we needed a table for 7, so he led us to this table that had its own little room, which used to be a prison cell! It was so cool, it was just a little doorway then the room with the table. Me, Max, and Caleb got the beef burger. It was really good! 

Squad

Our Table! (Caleb looks very happy)

The Beef Burger was delicious!

      Right after we ordered our food, we went to walk 2 blocks to a nearby store to get Ben a Sandwich because he has allergies. He is allergic to tree nuts, and the guy said there was sesame seeds used all over the kitchen, so he told us a nearby store. We walked to it, and got him a chicken sandwich. By the time we got back, our food was almost done. We got it and ate it, it was delicious! After that, we switched up the car rides. I was riding with Max, and Caleb rode with Ben. We continued our adventure!

     Our next stop was going to be the Cliffs of Moher. Those cliffs are really tall cliffs on the West Coast of Ireland. They were about 800 ft. high from water to the top! We were going to go on a boat first to see them from the bottom, from the water perspective. We got on the boat, and the trip over was really rough waters. There were pretty big waves, and it was shaking a lot. It was also windy. Here are pictures from the Boat, and of The Cliffs of Moher. 

Trying to hold on to the Boat!

   

The Cliffs of Moher.

Selfie!

Pretty!

     They were really awesome! Whats interesting about these cliffs, is that on the pathways, there is nothing to keep you from falling off the cliffs. There is no like chained fences, so if you fall off, its your fault. My Mom didn't let us go close to the edge at all. It was really pretty, and I'm glad we got to see it from both perspectives. 

     Another funny thing... There was a little shop at the top of The Cliffs of Moher, and inside, there was a whole thing of pictures about people climbing the cliffs. There was also a virtual reality animation of the Cliffs going down and under water. It was really cool! There was a green screen, and we could stand in front of it and it looked like we were on the Cliffs. Here's the picture.

Amazing!

        Everybody, was tired, so from then, we drove another hour, then finally got to our hotel called "The Auburn Lodge Hotel". It was a nice hotel! It looked like a lodge from the outside, because it was made of wood, but the rooms were more like hotel rooms, so it was pretty cool! 

      We ended up going to a Grocery Store to get dinner because in Ireland, everything closes at like 9 PM, which is annoying, so we had to go get things to make a sandwich from a store. In the store, there was like 3 people, and us, and it looked like they were closing. Its so weird because in GR, the Meijer's are mostly open like all the time, and I have never been to a store where they actually close. We got stuff to make sandwiches. We then went back to our hotel, and made sandwiches. 

      After we were done eating, we had leftover meat, cheese, and other stuff that needed to be refrigerated, but we had no fridge. I decided that I could just put it outside our hotel window, so that's what I did. I opened the window, and there was this little hook thing on the window, I thought that I could hang the bag of food on it. I tried, and the hook fell, and the bag fell on the ground. I couldn't go out of the window, so I just left it there. Ah well. 

                  -6/17/2016