Matt in Dublin!

As I told you in my last entry Danielle and Rob were here from March 13th-18th and Matt was here from March 17th-24th. So I was lucky enough to have all of them here on St. Patricks Day for the big parade! My favorite float of the whole parade was one of St. Patrick riding a Harley. I immediately thought of my dad and knew he would love this float too! I wish he could have come to Ireland to visit me because I know he would have just loved everything just as much as I do. Anyways! The parade was so crowded and people were doing anything to see it, one man actually climbed on a street sign just to see! I swear people were absolutely crazy but it was just so much fun!
So we all enjoyed the parade and afterwards we headed to my favorite pub (which is now Matt and Robs favorite pub too!) for some lunch. Then I let Matt nap while Danielle and Rob did some shopping. Later we had dinner and did our share of drinking to celebrate!
After Danielle and Rob left, Matt and I went all over Dublin in the next 6 days. We went to the history museum and the art museum, the Guinness storehouse, went on a tour of the Wicklow mountains, visited St. Stevens Green, saw the Dublin Castle, and he even went shopping!
Matt especially enjoyed the day tour of the Wicklow mountains. We saw Guinness lake and the spot where the Beatles wrote the song "Yesterday." We also went to Glendalough, so I was able to show Matt around since I had already been there. After Glendalough, our next stop was in Ballykissangel for lunch and then we went to the site "where the rivers meet" in Avoca which is where Tomas Moore wrote the famous poem "The Meeting of the Waters." It was a gorgeous area with beautiful stone walls and trees waiting to blossom.

After seeing Guinness Lake where all of the water to make Guinness comes from, we went to the Guinness Storehouse and learned even more about the Irish liquid treasure. Once we reached the 7th floor of the Storehouse, we enjoyed the gorgeous view. It was much less crowded in the storehouse when I went with Matt than with Danielle and Rob. So we were able to get seats and look upon Dublin while Matt drank both our of glasses of Guinness.
We also enjoyed Easter together while Matt was here. A bunch of my friends got together and we all made easter dinner, so Matt was able to meet my friends. Best of all, my mom sent me an easter basket!!

I hope everyone had a great easter and I will write about my trip to the west of Ireland and the Aran Islands next time!!