HOME SWEET HOME

Hey everyone! were safely back at home now. We had a great time and are totally blessed we were able to do this trip. were glad to be home now. we missed friends and family. thanks for everyone who read my blog. now that im at home and have no where cool to go and blog about im not sure if ill still blog or not.
who knows.. i probably will every now and then. i just dont feel like i have anything very interesting to blog about...

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GUINNESS BREWERY IN DUBLIN

so we flew back to dublin from edinburgh. were here in dublin for a couple of days. we fly back home tomorrow. we've had a really good time and have seen and done things we'll remember for the rest of our lives but i must say i think we are ready to go home now. we miss all of you! and we miss samson!!
yesterday we went to the guinness brewery. i dont like beer but its interesting to see how they make it. you even get to taste barley after they roast it. kinda taste like coffee.
in part of the brewery they had a bunch of guinness memorabilia mostly from the 50's but also much earlier.
ANOTHER thing that was really interesting that we learned is that guinness beer and the guinness book of wrld records are connected. a long time ago, the owner of guinness was out hunting game bird with some friends and they were argueing which was the fastest game bird. then they thought there are people sitting around pubs having these kind of debates all the time and thought it would be great if all the "fastest, biggest, etc" stuff was in one book. and so he created the guinness book of world records.

barley

those white things are where the beer matures

on of the guinness slogans was "a guinness a day" and it actually came about because doctors were actually prescribing it to people.

they had some bottles from the 1800's

ok so its really late at night and i wrote this blog from our hotel room in dublin. were flying out tomorrow morning. please be praying for us. ill be blogging more about our trip home. im finally caught up on blogs so sorry i had to post so many at one time.

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THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH

We visited the castle while we were there. it was pretty well preserved. it was not only a castle but the church and other royal rooms and buildings that were around it. we also got to see the crown jewels of scotland and the sceptor and sword that is awarded to whoever is king or queen. it was pretty interesting. the castle is up on a hill so the view of the city is pretty good too.

these were the castle gates adams standing in front of

view from the castle of the city

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A BEAUTIFUL CITY

we spent a couple days in edinburgh, scotland. it was amazing! edinburgh is just such a cool looking city. its a big city except all of the building are super old and it has a gothic, medieval feel about it. the skyline of the city is like nothing else weve seen on our trip. its actually not really like any other city ive ever seen. its like the opitamy of a european city. its just the kind of thing an american wants to see when they think of europe. i wish we could have spent more time in scotland. we would have liked to have gone up into the highlands and i would have gotten a kick out of seeing loch ness :)
heres a funny thing about europe.. we witnessed this in edinburgh.. but those people love pizza hut! its like a fancy restaurant to them! theyre really big inside and you wait to be seated and theres waiters and waitresses and menus! you sit down and order and theres a full bar in them! so people are just sitting down drinking glasses of wine in pizza huts! they would be sadly dissappointed with american pizza huts. but most of the food is so bad here that pizza huts sounds really good to us!

we took so many pics.. these are only a fraction of them

they sell kilts everywhere

bagpipers play on the street for money all the time

i just looked at these pictures i posted and i dont feel like it does the city justice.


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OUR DRIVE NORTH TO SCOTLAND

After york, we drove up to scotland. it only took us like 3 or 3and a half hours. it was a very pretty drive. lots of country and green fields. AND did you know that there is a such thing as nottingham and the sherwood forest like in robin hood! ya we passed through the forest. it was in northern england. driving and navigating in england and scotland was much easier than in ireland. more street signs and stuff.
when we got to the scotland/england border we decided to get out and take some pics.

all of the country sides in scotland, england, and ireland are seperated by stone walls or giant hedges. lots of sheeps and cows too

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YORK, ENGLAND

On our way from london to edinburgh, scotland, we stopped and stayed the night in york. we didnt really know what to expect with this town. it was a really cool medieval/viking-ish town. it has a lot of history to it. a long time ago the town used to be surrounded by stone wall. Today, a lot of the wall is still intact. you can even go walk up on top of the wall. a lot of buildings just look cool! very old and the roads are really small.
and at our hostel we got a room that was just the 2 of us in it :)

through that archway is the city inside of the stone wall. today not all of the city is inside the wall. its expanded a lot.

the wall

hes super excited..

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