Dart Adventure & More Climbing!

     Today, we woke up at about 9:30 AM. Mama was gone because she was going to China. She left at about 6:45 AM, so we didn't see her when we got up. We were just hanging out for a couple hours, then we decided to go get Coffee at Coffee Angel. Coffee Angel was right across the street from my house, so we went there. We all got Hot Chocolates, except Max, who got sparkling water. Caleb thought the Hot Chocolate was really good, but I liked the Hot Chocolate at Cafe Sol better. After we got Hot Chocolate, we were going to go down to the D.A.R.T. to go on an adventure.

     We walked down to Pearse Station, which is the nearest Dart station near us. We got family day passes for all of us, and got on the dart. 

On the Dart. 

       We went from Pearse Station, all the way down to Bray. Here is a map. 

Started at Pearse, and went to Bray. 

      When we arrived at Bray, we got off the Dart. From Bray, we walked all the way to the next station on the map which is Greystones. We were walking on the cost, and on the mountains. There was a place where we could go down the stairs, and climb on the cliffs that were right next to the water. 

Chillin on the Mountain.

This was down the steps on the walk to Greystones.

Cool Graffiti. 

Theres Ben and Max.

Walking out on the water. 

     After that, we continued to walk to Greystones. When we got there, we would take the Dart back to Pearse. While we were walking to Greystones, we were walking on the side of a huge mountain, because we were right next to the Sea, so we were walking on the side of a mountain. It had a path, and on the other side of the wall protecting you from falling off of the mountain, were cliffs leading down to the water. 

We walked on this path to Greystones. 

      There were a lot of paths that led up the side of the mountain that we found while we were walking on that path. I was the only one that took any of those paths to go explore them. Sometimes they would dead end, but sometimes they would lead down awesome pathways and be shortcuts. 

We had to duck under these plants. This was a fun path!

Another grassy path. 

This was a fun, steep one. 

       While we were walking to Greystones, I stopped to wait for Ben and Max and My Dad, because they were behind us, and Caleb decided to keep walking to Greystones. When Max, Ben, and My Dad showed up, I walked with them to Greystones. When we got there, Caleb wasn't waiting for us. We found him soon he was just waiting for us at the Dart Station like we had thought. We took the Dart back to Pearse Station, and walked home. 

      Tomorrow, we would be flying back to Grand Rapids, and getting there at about 11 PM. This trip was really fun! I will keep blogging on this blog hopefully when I move for good. I will also be going to Maine for 3 weeks on July 20, and I have my own blog for that also. I blog about my Lobstering Expierence! 

                        -6/20/2016

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U2 Recording Studios & Ghost Tour!!

         Today, we wanted to get up at 8:30 AM, but we ended up getting up at 9:30 AM. We stayed up until about 3 AM last night, and nobody had set any alarms. After we were all up, we decided to try to find a new coffee place to get coffee. The last Coffee place we went to was "Coffee Angel" and we knew of a Coffee place called "Insomnia" nearby. We walked to it, and we got our drinks. There was seating upstairs, and we were the only ones there. Their mocha was good! I also got a blueberry Muffin. 

Sitting upstairs at Insomnia

My Mocha and Blueberry Muffin!!

        The Muffin was really good! After that, we walked back to the house to ask my dad if we could go shopping. On Grafton street, if you take 2 side-roads, there is an Arcade. Not a gaming arcade. In Europe, an "Arcade" is like a shopping center or mall. We told my dad, then we started to walk toward the Arcade. When we got there, we walked into all the stores. There was cool clothing stores, jewelry stores, and food. Max, Caleb, and Ben got posters. I got 3 little charm items. We then walked back to our house. 

       Every Thursday, there is a thing in our park where there are tents with different food shops. We went across to check that out. I got tea. Ben got lemonade, and Caleb got a Hot Chocolate. Here's a picture of the park. 

Park right across the street from my house!

      After we visited our park to see the tent market, we went back to the house for a while. At about 4:30 PM, we started to walk down to where my mom works to meet her and her friend Sue, so that we could go check out the U2 Recording Studios. Its where they record their music and there is really cool Graffiti. We met my mom and Sue, then we went down to the U2 Studios. There was a good view, and some nice artwork. Its near the water. 

Right by U2 Recording Studios.

Aparently the red poles are "Trees" and the Green benches are "Grass" 

       We got to where all the cool Graffiti is painted on the walls, and we took lots of pictures. There is a lot of Graffiti and it looks so cool because its just on random buildings that random people created. 

Graffiti!

This is art.

El Papel 

Awesome!1

WOAH... Creepy...

        The art was really cool! It was a fun place to take a lot of pictures. We were done taking pictures, so my mom decided to take us all to a new Coffee place on the way home. It was just a little store, and I got a Latte! It was delicious!

Drinking our Lattes and our Hot Chocolates! (Me and  Max got the Lattes)

     My Mom and Sue had to go back to my Moms work, so Me, Caleb, Ben, and Max walked home. We got home, and we had to eat dinner because we had a Ghost Tour at 8:00 PM. We got home, and my dad was making dinner. He made some bread, and sauce, and he was making Tortellini. It was really good! I ate a lot of it. 

        After we had dinner, we had to quickly get to the place where the Ghost Bus would pick us up. My mom got an Uber, and Sue hailed a cab because we needed 2 cars for all my friends plus my mom and Sue. We got there just on time. We looked at the bus and it looked really cool! 

Ghost Bus IF YOU DARE!!

      We walked on the Bus, and it didn't look like a Bus at all! I walked in, and it looked like a scary hallway in a Haunted House! There was a little room, and upstairs, it was like tables, and really creepy! It was so dark because the curtains it was amazing! Our guide was really enthusiastic. We stopped at Dublin castle, and a Graveyard. Here are some pictures of the inside of the Ghost Bus!

Walking onto the Bus!

This is in the Bus!!!

2nd floor of the Bus.

Were so scared lol

       When we went to the Graveyard, he told us a scary story about how a guy on his tour before found his name on a Gravestone at the Graveyard. He said that the man found his name on the Gravestone March 16, and the date that his name died on the Gravestone was, March 17. The man thought it was a sign. Thats pretty weird. I took a lot of cool Black-&-White pictures!

This is cool.

Little area with no roof.

Graveyard <3

     The whole thing was a really fun experience. The guy was really fun, and we visited 2 cool places. The Bus was really cool. I didn't think that the inside of a Bus could look exactly like a Haunted House. Its so cool! I wish I had that Bus. After the Ghost Tour, my Mom and Sue went out, so Me, Max, Ben and Caleb were left with my Google Maps to walk home. The map said it was 31 minutes away, but we ran most of it, and it took us like 15 minutes. We were finally home, and we had to go to bed early so that we could get up early in the morning the next day.

     Tomorrow, we are going to the West part of Ireland for about 3 days. We had to pack some clothes. We are going to be staying in a Bed & Breakfast. We are going over to the West part of Ireland to visit Giants Causeway, and Skellig Michael (the movie at the end of Star Wars The Force Awakens) Its going to be really cool!


More Pictures: 

LOL

At the Dublin Castle!

By U2 Recording Studios!

Drinking Lattes and Hot Chocolates!

Under Dublin Castle!

              -6/16/2016