Family Visits - Killarney & Galway

Greetings all...

I know it's been a while, but i finally have some news and pictures to put up.

To start off my family visited last week. Mom, Taylor, Aunt Donna, and Krissy visited for about a week. They came in last Saturday and did some sight seeing around Cork on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Wednesday morning we left for Killarney and visited the National Park. It was a beautiful park, but we didnt get to see much of it because it was so massive. We walked to the Torc Waterfall, which was awesome then took a bus to see the Ross Castle. We took a good amount of pictures and I uploaded all of mine so check them out.

Thursday morning we took the bus to Galway and toured the city and the family did some shopping. The town was pretty nice and also had a lot to see. Friday was the bus tour of The Burren and Cliffs of Moher. First we saw the Dunguaire Castle for a few minutes and then headed to lunch. After lunch we made the big stop at the CLiffs. What a good time that was. The wind was absolutely ridiculous and everyone was getting blown around and/or over. It was really funny watching everyone try to walk around with the wind being so crazy. Definitely check out the pictures from the Cliffs. After the Cliffs we stopped at the Poulnabrone Dolmen which was a burial site where remains were found from something like 8000 years ago. Pretty cool. Last we stopped at the Aillwee caves. We toured the caves and took some neat pictures, but they didnt show up too well, at least on my camera.

Saturday we went to the Aran Islands and biked around. It was alot of work getting around the island but we saw a good bit. The island was covered with churches and old temples. I will try to label the pictures but i will probably mess it up because there was just too many of them to keep track of. Besides the churches, we visited an old light house that gave a great view of the island. Next we headed to Dun Aonghasa which was a Celtic fort built in 2000 BC. One end is on a cliff so there was a great view of the ocean from it. After the fort we moved onto the seal colony along the beach, but no seals were out. Finally we headed back to the town, grabbed lunch then Taylor and I went to see the smallest church in the world (3.7meters x 1.8meters) atop this hill. We couldnt get very close to it, but we got a few pics.

Sunday everyone left and I returned to Cork. I enjoyed the family visit and had a good time seeing more of Ireland with them. I know the description of the trip is a bit short, but i am attempting to label the pictures from the visits and give some more information there, so check them out at the picasa page. They should be labeled by tomorrow.
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Hockey wrapped up on Tuesday. We won the championship going 8-1-1.

I leave Friday for Germany where I'm staying with Joe for a week. After that I'm heading to Italy for 6 days then Paris for 3. I will have limited internet access for the time so I'll try and update when I can, but definitely look for a ton of pictures mid-april.

CHECK OUT THE PICS!

Talk to you all soon!

- Travis