Mom and Scotty's last full day in Ireland

Sunday, October 3rd: We woke up bright and early this morning because there were two churches we wanted to see but because it was Sunday they were only open for a few hours out of the day. We started off the day jumping on the double decker bus and heading to St. Patrick's church. It was so beautiful! The church was HUGE! Much longer than I thought it was going to be. And there were cool graves and memorial statues all along the sides of the church and the stain glass windows were beautiful. Also, since the church service was starting within the hour the choir (made up of all men ages 6 or 7 to 80ish) was practicing and they were amazing!!

St. Patrick's Church

St. Patrick

The 5th Ingredient

After we went to the Guinness Factory which was expensive but actually really fun. The entire factory is created to look like an enormous pint class. It was at least 7 floors each dedicated to a different aspect of the drink; ingredients  marketing, tasting, Guinness global, etc... Then at the very top of the factory is a giant sky bar that is one of the tallest points in the city and you can see the entire city from the all glass bar. It was so cool!! 

After the sky bar mom was feeling a little sick so she decided to go back to the hotel and nap for an hour or so while Scotty and I went to have lunch. We went to this really cute pub and I had Irish Stew which was so good! It was basically a lot of lamb with a little broth :) And some giant carrots and potatoes, yum! Then Scotty and I shopped around a little and went into some really cool, expensive stores. Then we went back to the hotel to get mom and Mom and I decided we wanted to go to a church called St. Mitchen's that has catacombs.

Guinness

We took a taxi over to the church but the gates were closed. We walked around the entire outside of the church only to conclude the the guide book lied and that it wasn't open on Sundays. So we got into another taxi so we could meet Scotty at the National Art Museum. Our taxi ride was hilarious to say the least. The driver was a big Irish guy who was extremely opinionated (in a kind of good way) but the best part was everything was "f**ing" and "a**hole" and all of this profanity that would not have been ok in the states, too funny!

Then we met Scotty at the art museum which is about a 7 story building and we had one hour before it closed. We went in the first exhibit called something along the lines of "the highlights". There were beautiful paintings by really famous artists like Monet, it was really cool! Then we left the exhibit to go upstairs and the stairs were blocked. Finally we asked the receptionist and she said the building was getting a new roof and that's why they had the highlight exhibit...so it was perfect! We managed to see everything they had to offer in under an hour haha. 

Guinness Ads

Sharing one between the 3 of us haha

Sky Bar

After, we went back to the hotel and got ready for dinner. We went to dinner downtown and a little restaurant with an open kitchen. It was really, really good! Then we headed back to the hotel so they could sleep before they're flight in the morning.