Monday, September 10, 2012

Day 3 Ireland March 24th

Day 3 in Ireland was a churchish kinda of day 
We started our day at the
Rock of Cashel 
It has undergone multiple uses over its history 
but it was lastly an Abby or a Church
something religious 
since it has a graveyard 
Anyways this place like all of the other attractions we went to in Ireland 
was cash only 
seriously it is 2012 
no one carries cash anymore 
and when you leave in 2 days you don't want to have to pull out more money 
Anyways I honestly don't remember too many cool facts about this place 
except that they said it got cold a lot  



Nathan being the structural engineer was more interested in how the church was built 
rather than what it was used for 
We were bummed that none of the places we visited on our entire trip offered the structural plans as souvenirs 
I find it was hard to buy souvenirs because they are all dust collecting nick-knacks 




I enjoyed the carvings on some of the tombs and the old cemetery 


For some reason I think it's cool to look around these old graveyards 
some of the markers were actually pretty recent 



There was an old ruin in view from the cemetery at the Rock of Cashel 
 Our next stop was Jerpoint Abby 
But not before we got lost 
and took a 10 min break to figure out how to navigate our way to the Abby 
 

It has some pretty old carvings 
and some of the carvings you could tell what it was displaying
In the picture above, there used to be carvings on each side of the pillars 



The carving above is to show the sin of gluttony 



Most of the Abby was destroyed 
but it was still interesting to look around 
this place also was cash only
luckily I think it was only a eurro each 
because I believe at this point we were down to less than 10 eurro in cash left 

We found a cool train bridge for Nathan since 5 years ago he took advance bridge design while studying abroad in England 
Wow 5 years ago Nathan and I were dating 
crazy!


We ended our day by driving to Dublin 

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