Northern Ireland

January 23, 2015 – Friday

Today I went to Northern Ireland with my friend Stephen!  Adventure time!  Oh yea! So excited.  So very excited.  Stephen had the day off work and wanted to go on an adventure and so he invited me to come with him to Northern Ireland.  Such a great friend!  So, today was a great day.  We saw some gorgeous stuff.  

So our adventures of the day included so many amazing things.  We stopped at a petrol (gas) station about an hour outside of Dublin and got some hot chocolate and spent some time writing letters to Sarah to put in her package and then we found a post office and shipped it away!  Yay!  I’m so excited for her to get it.  She is going to love it so much!  

Package for Sarah!  From Ireland.

Writing Sarah A Letter

Writing Sarah A Letter

Then we drove a couple more hours and ended up at the Spelga Dam.  It was a gorgeous view and SO COLD!  I haven’t even been that shockingly cold in my life.  The mist from the water and the wind.  It was a crazy combination.  It was beautiful though!  So pretty.  

We then spent a few hours in Tollymore Forest Park and did some hiking!  The scenery here was incredible.  It’s so green and beautiful.  It was a great hike!  We had a good time.  There were some beautiful bridges and a little river and some cool tunnels.  I took TONS of pictures!

Bloody Bridge on Mourne Coastal was our next stop!  This was one of my favorite places.  We were supposed to be able to stand under the bridge and walk through it, but the water level was so high that there was no way we were going to make it through without drowning. So instead we took some time and just sat on the rocks on the coast and enjoyed the incredible beauty.  It was beyond beautiful.  Another one of those spiritual moments where I felt so much peace and gratitude to be here in Ireland.  It was incredible!  I loved it so much!  

So many cameras!  Haha.  I LOVE taking photos!  Who wouldn't with that scenery?

We then made out way to Belfast and had dinner at a super yummy restaurant.  It was a buffet line with food from all over the world! So a ton of variety. It was really great.  Stephen has come to it on four different occasions and never could get in, but today we waited ten minutes and got a seat!  Lucky us!  

We then drove about 2 hours out to Longford and visited with Stephen’s friend Dave and his girlfriend Emma.  They were so nice and super Irish!  It was so great to be in their home and listen to their accents.  It was a blast.  We left their place after a couple hours and drove back to Dublin!  I fell asleep in the car on the way home.  I was exhausted.  We got home at 3 am in the morning!  Wahoo!  Crazy long day.  But so much fun and so worth it!  

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