Sorry I cannot make the captions go with the pictures--but here is a sample of our wonderful day at the farm. We started with learning more Irish dancing, baking soda bread, milking a cow and seeing a pig with her piglets, learned how to play hurling, play an Irish drum, enjoyed watching some talented Irish dancing and the best part of the day was jumping in the bog and getting all "mucky!" Everyone loved it and the rain only made it wetter and better. Today was the first day of rain in 6 weeks at the farm-just our luck!
On Sunday, we left southwestern Ireland and rode to Dublin. We had a bus tour and learned about St. Patrick's church , Trinity college, Phoenix park where Pope John Paul ll visited in 1979 and everyone was very interested in the Guinness factory which started in 1759.
After our bus tour we were able to get off the bus and shop for about an hour in downtown Dublin.
We heard laughs coming out of the pubs when Germany scored over England in the "football match." No supporters of England football in Ireland.
Our Home stay has been absolutely wonderful and we are sorry to leave our home stay families.
Tomorrow we will be off on the ferry to Wales.
Can't wait to hear all about your trip when you get home!
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