Irish family fun

From a recent trip back to Declan's roots - Downpatrick, Co Down.  Fun times.

Drama Queen!

I'll blog a few more photos from our trip back to Downpatrick, but in the meantime I will leave you with one of my favourite shots to date.  We came across this bench on a walk and Aoife decided to rest her legs while the others caught up - completely oblivious to the carved out graffiti brilliantly positioned next to her.

In Dublin's Fair City...

...Where the girls are so pretty, 

I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone, 

As she wheeled her wheel-barrow, 

Through the streets broad and narrow, 

Crying "Cockles and mussels, alive, alive, oh!"

We've just come back from an awesome few days in Dublin - as well as eating, drinking and generally having a good time we sought out Molly Malone's statue (a tourist must), visited the Guinness Storehouse (again, a tourist must, with fantastic views of the city at the top), explored Trinity College, went to see a fantastic Abbey Theatre production of Sean O'Casey's 'The Plough and the Stars', visited the Dublin Writers Museum (I had no idea Dublin had produced so many), sampled Michelin starred gourmet deliciousness at Chapter One restaurant (thoroughly recommend to anyone going anywhere near Dublin), ambled for miles along the Liffey, admired the grand houses on the streets around Parnell Square and took a few pints of the black stuff in some of Dublin's cosy back street pubs.

I, of course, took a few snaps - enjoy.

xxx 

London 2012

So after indescribable levels of anticipation, we finally made it to seats 289 and 290 in the Olympic stadium and bleedin' hell it was worth the wait!  We had to be early birds and up in the park for 9.30am - eeek!  We watched a morning of athletics which included a Men's Triple Jump competition, Olivia Breen run a PB and qualifying for the 200m final, Hannah Cockroft whoop some ass in her 200m heat, Ola Abidugan qualify for his Men's 100m, Beverly Jones pick up a Bronze medal for her Discus Throw, Shelly Woods win her Women's 1500m heat and Oscar Pistorius and his teammates pick up their Gold medals for the Men's 4x100m.

An action packed morning was followed by a wander round the vastness that is the Olympic park and a bit of a relax with a beer on the BA Park Live site.  

London 2012, you should be proud - you have inspired the world.  Now, let's dust off those trainers ...