So, my pictures from Ireland keep coming. :) I've been taking a break on editing them between shoots I've been doing, but it's always so fun to
sit back down with the pictures and feel like
I get to go back through
my memories.
I apologize if you're getting tired of the posts about Ireland, but to it's just a good way for me to document them for myself and Leslie...I'm hoping to eventually make a coffee table album of all my images, but until then,
they're finding their place on my blog!
So, on
day 4, we spent the morning in Dingle eating
french toast with brie cheese...super delicious, and I've actually made it since I've been home and feel like I'm back in the little restaurant there in Dingle. After breakfast, we just wondered the streets where we found
The Little Cheese Shop...I couldn't help but
wish my dad was there with me, knowing how much
he would have LOVED this place. To quote Daddy,
"The stinkier the cheese, the better it tastes!"
I'm not a cheese expert, but what I tasted, I LOVED...best fresh mozzarella I've ever had!
Not only was the cheese delicious, but the shop and how it was set up was just adorable...it was the
Shop Around the Corner of cheese shops!
As you can tell, I took a ton of pictures of this shop...'cause it would be a shame to forget such a wonderful place. :)
Seriously...AMAZING fresh mozzarella! Worth every Euro. :)
The lady that owned The Little Cheese Shop also had a stand at the little food market in the town square (for lack of a better description). Leslie and I each bought ourself some cheese at the cheese shop, crackers, and I got an olive salad...which we ate for lunch in the car while we drove along the coast up towards Galway Bay.
Near Galway, we stopped to take pictures of these cows just grazing by the bay...
It never DAWNED on me until I got back in the car that these cows could have charged us...then again, do cows charge? I don't know the answer to that...but these are Irish cows, so I'm sure they would be perfectly lovely. :)
I was kind of obsessed with this girl...and
NO, I don't have a zoom on my camera...the cow really was this close, and no fence.
Isn't she cute? Loved her color with the scenery.
Okay, so my favorite Irish song has to be
Galway Bay...that was the one place I KNEW I had to go. I've imagined going to Galway for years because I just love that song sooooo much. It's a very large bay, so this was just one side of it...
Another view of Galway Bay.
That night, we stayed at the Rockfield House, with Tim and Kathleen as our hosts. We absolutely fell in love with this couple...all our hosts were simply lovely, but these two felt like grandparents to us, and we spent the rest of the trip talking about and missing Tim and Kathleen.
Day 5, we drove further north, and happened upon this park that was just sitting there along the side of the road. I'm not kidding when I say that I wouldn't have even questioned it had some fairy or speaking woodland creature come up and asked for directions! We couldn't get over how fairytale-ish it felt!
We FINALLY stopped to take pictures of some sheep. We saw them the entire trip, but were never at the right place to stop for a picture, until this one.
We had to park about a quarter of a mile up the road to get our sheep picture, and I was laughing so hard while we were running up hill against a very gusty wind!
Okay, so self-timed photos aren't always the best idea. Not sure why Leslie can always pull off looking cute and I look like a tornado is spinning around my very head!
This was Kylemore Abbey where nuns currently live. I suddenly really wanted to be a nun. Fraulein Maria's life was looking pretty good to me!
On the grounds of the Abbey...if you're a wedding photographer, you may have been picturing a bride and groom standing under that beautiful arched tree, like I was doing!
The gardens at the Abbey...
Me: "Leslie! Let me take a picture of you."
Leslie (as she starts spinning around): "I'm trying to give you something to work with!"
More views of the Abbey...
An actual nun inside the abbey...and a really pretty chair that reminded me of Scarlett O'hara
The man who build the estate for his wife (years back, before it was an Abbey), build her a chapel of her very own. It's small, but so pretty.
And that wraps up this part of the trip!
