We recently visited my aunt and uncle in Arizona. It was awesome! Aunt Holly, you must be a ninja because I have no photos of you!
- Welcome to Arizona.
- "Hey mom look over there!" "Hey mom lets go over here!"
- Addison Marie.
- shoes!
- wind.
- a big hole.
- not as dangerous as it seems.
- the death of a snowman.
- kate.
- Addison and Uncle Dave.
- you can see a lot of plane trails here.
- some random people looking at a hole.
- more random people.
- living on the edge. … ok that was cheesy…
- raven.
- This guy didn't give no you know whats.
- when you see it you will… well you know the rest.
- arizona.
- down by the river!
- so i jumped in and yes it was freezing.
- Addison apparently does not like it when daddy jumps into bodies of water.
- you wont get this but Uncle Dave and Aunt Holly will. photo by Aunt Holly.
- my girls.
If you couldn’t figure out the squirrel picture, look again, there is an actual squirrel sitting on the wall.
thanks for looking,
daniel. kate. addison.
Dear Internets,
Since this will undoubtedly be one of many trips across the sea, I figured I would start a travel section to my blog. Unfortunately I didn’t even think about this until on my way home, so the quality of the content isn’t really up to my own standards… sorry… my bad… I was on vacation… GET OFF MY BACK! First let me thank dave for taking many of the pictures you will see below, and also kate and sarah for taking some shots with my big clunky cannon. I would also like to thank the random strangers for taking pictures of the four of us throughout our trip, some of you even made it onto the blog!
Anyways… so we went to Ireland, and it was amazing. I learned some things while I was there.
Driving in Ireland is crazy, almost all of the roads are about half the width of our roads. By itself that is a lot to deal with, but add driving on the opposite side of the road, shifting with your left hand, and insane country road speeds and things can get hairy very fast. Everyone in the car is in a constant state of fear for their lives. By the end of the trip it didn’t seem nearly as bad. One thing to note, if you are renting a sweet car like a BMW or similar, you have to be 30. So yeah, that sucked. But our diesel Nissan treated us well.
Temple Bar, while fun and full of people, is basically Ireland’s version of a tourist trap, there is no one there that is from Ireland except for the workers. Go there once, and never return.
Galway, is awesome. Great town to stay in, and the farmland to the west of it is some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen. Go here and explore for a while.
Pubs are everywhere. The key is finding the pubs that are not designed specifically to cater to tourists. If there is no good food/no food, lots of old men, chances are you are in the right spot.
Old Head - http://goo.gl/maps/ZEpnW - I went to Ireland searching for something, I didn’t know what it was until we went here. There is a path that goes to the right and the left of the street and each end is a breathtakingly spectacular view. It is like standing at the edge of the world before it was discovered. The wind whipping into your face and slightly tugging on you, as if it wanted pull you over the ledge down 300 feet into the stony ocean below. Go to this spot, and live. Just make sure you don’t die, I would feel bad.
Ok, so I decided to only post pictures with 1 or more of our group in them, I will put more on Facebook later. Ladies and gentlemice I give you kate, sarah, dave, and myself… in IREALND!
- guinness.
- i am now officially a coffee drinker. i blame Ireland.
- guinness. the origins. thanks random lady for taking our picture.
- guinness in disguise.
- sarah at the friary.
- "like a boss"
- i like to climb stuff.
- "like a boss"
- fake castle.
- awww @ fake castle.
- awww 2.0 at fake castle.
- "like a boss"
- the girls.
- "like a boss"
- idk what the heck i was thinking with this pose…
- "like a boss"
- "like a…. bear?"
- our feet. because… you know… i like feet pictures dang it!
- "like a boss"
- when no little boys room can be found, large street signs do the trick.
- "like a boss"
- sarah in the rain.
- kate in the rain.
- me in the rain.
- sometimes i take a picture of a picture and call it my own.
- horses at the priory and kate's arm.
- sarah at the priory.
- i really like to climb things.
- see?
- kate doesn't like this kind of ice cream.
- i don't know what this was, but i liked it.
- "like a boss" at Blarney Castle.
- even I am tall in this place!
- "like a boss"
- kate at blarney.
- this castle was legit from the 1400s.
- blarney stone "like a boss"
- 3 of my faves.
- thanks random guy for taking our picture.
- murder hole.
- kate waiting for us to catch up.
- we thought this place was nice… but it was about to blow our minds.
- but first, photo bomb "like a boss"
- i cannot begin to describe to you how it feels to stand at the edge of a 300ft cliff on the coast of ireland.
- go to old head. find this spot. live.
- living "like a boss"
- the girls were cautiously living :)
- 300 feet down.
- old head "like a boss"
- sarah.
- kate at Kilmainham Gaol aka jail.
- prisoner "like a boss"
- this was the last thing you saw before you were hung or in later years shot.
- byerland.
Thanks for looking,
daniel. kate.
