On Monday, June 15th, Suzanne Parrish and Emily Morris went to Dublin. Hitching a ride with David Moore --who was on his way to a class at the Irish Bible Institute-- we made the two hour journey to Ireland's capital (In case you didn't know, all roads lead to Dublin). Upon arrival, we met up with Alex, MTW's intern at Abbey Church.
We went to lunch at a cute little cafe called Lovin' Spoon. After lunch, we hit up Carroll's, the MASSIVE ridiculous tourist shop, where you can get anything and everything Irish for insane prices.
The Book of Kells consists of an illuminated manuscript in Latin, containing the Four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables. (Thank you Wikipedia.) It lives at Trinity College.
The plan was to see The Book of Kells. When we found out it cost 9 euros (about $14), we opted to look at the pictures of it in the gift shop. We wrapped up our Trinity adventure and headed to Grafton Street, where Once was filmed. I, being an American tourist, asked someone if there was a Sony store somewhere. I secretly hoped to get a picture in front of it, just because I wanted to stand where Glen Hansard stood. Yes, I am ridiculous. Anyway, the Sony store closed a couple of years ago. Bummer. I did get some cool pictures though.
Our afternoon was spent at St. Stephen's Green. I found a four leaf clover. We had a great afternoon of relaxing.
We went and got coffee, then headed to Penny's. I love Penny's. It's like Target, only bigger and cheaper. I got real cute yellow shoes for 6 euros. I'll post a picture of me in them once I have one.
Can't leave without a picture of the Spire.
This concludes our day in Dublin.
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