One of the great things about having a condo on the Adair Manor Estate was that we could actually cook dinner when we didn't feel like going out to eat. In the picture above, we are eating a great dinner prepared by Ed and Thera out on our back lawn.
After dinner, Brad and I took a walk on the 850 acre estate.
On Sunday we drove to Limerick to see the church where my great, great grandparents were married. Alana and Erin are shown here with my parents in front of this church, St. Michael's Church.
Erin, Alana and Dan were dropped off at the Shannon Airport and the rest of us headed up to the coast of Donegal. The scenery was lovely and the castle at Donegal was open so we toured that for a bit.
One of the most interesting parts of the trip was the time that we spent in Northern Ireland. We spent the night in Londonderry in Northern Ireland, the only walled city in Ireland and one of the best preserved walls in Europe. The four of us are pictured in front of the hotel we stayed in, the Tower Hotel, which has had several car bombs outside of it since "the Troubles" started there on Bloody Sunday in 1972. We walked around the perimeter of the wall, approximately 1.5 kilometers. The British accepted the blame for the deaths during the rally on Bloody Sunday after a lengthy inquiry that ended June 15, 2010.
Here we are shown with a man we hired as a guide to take us around and tell us the history of the city. Garvin explained to us not only the ancient history of this part of Ireland but the recent history with the strife between the Protestants and the Catholics. He had a brother-in-law who was one of the 13 killed on Bloody Sunday.
There are so many shades of green in Ireland that it is no wonder that they say there are a 100 colors of green in the landscape. For the most part, our weather was beautiful and we were avoiding 100 plus degree weather in Los Angeles.
Driving along the coast in Northern Ireland, we would see old abandoned castles right on the cliffs above the ocean.
Helen is shown here at the Giants Causeway, a UNESCO site, made of basalt columns.
Our last stop before heading home was at Bru na Boinne, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built about 1000 years before Stonehenge. It is on the east coast of Ireland and was a mound built to house the dead. We loved our trip to Ireland and especially enjoyed spending the 60th anniversary trip with our parents.
One of the great things about having a condo on the Adair Manor Estate was that we could actually cook dinner when we didn't feel like going out to eat. In the picture above, we are eating a great dinner prepared by Ed and Thera out on our back lawn.
After dinner, Brad and I took a walk on the 850 acre estate. 
On Sunday we drove to Limerick to see the church where my great, great grandparents were married. Alana and Erin are shown here with my parents in front of this church, St. Michael's Church.
Erin, Alana and Dan were dropped off at the Shannon Airport and the rest of us headed up to the coast of Donegal. The scenery was lovely and the castle at Donegal was open so we toured that for a bit.
One of the most interesting parts of the trip was the time that we spent in Northern Ireland. We spent the night in Londonderry in Northern Ireland, the only walled city in Ireland and one of the best preserved walls in Europe. The four of us are pictured in front of the hotel we stayed in, the Tower Hotel, which has had several car bombs outside of it since "the Troubles" started there on Bloody Sunday in 1972. We walked around the perimeter of the wall, approximately 1.5 kilometers. The British accepted the blame for the deaths during the rally on Bloody Sunday after a lengthy inquiry that ended June 15, 2010.
Here we are shown with a man we hired as a guide to take us around and tell us the history of the city. Garvin explained to us not only the ancient history of this part of Ireland but the recent history with the strife between the Protestants and the Catholics. He had a brother-in-law who was one of the 13 killed on Bloody Sunday.
There are so many shades of green in Ireland that it is no wonder that they say there are a 100 colors of green in the landscape. For the most part, our weather was beautiful and we were avoiding 100 plus degree weather in Los Angeles.
Driving along the coast in Northern Ireland, we would see old abandoned castles right on the cliffs above the ocean.
Helen is shown here at the Giants Causeway, a UNESCO site, made of basalt columns.
Our last stop before heading home was at Bru na Boinne, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, built about 1000 years before Stonehenge. It is on the east coast of Ireland and was a mound built to house the dead. We loved our trip to Ireland and especially enjoyed spending the 60th anniversary trip with our parents.
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