yesterday's recap

Wow. yesterday was a long and great day in the city of Dublin.
As I had described earlier, we had a hop on hop off pass…
Stop one was Trinity college where we went and looked at the book of Kells. The book of Kells are the four gospel manuscripts with illustrations. Very elaborate and beautiful, but could not take any pictures inside.
We had lunch right outside the school grounds.
Dublin Castle and Cathedral marks stop two. From there, Christ Church. Beautiful crypt underneath I couldn’t take many photos of, though. We passed St. Peter’s Church, very beautiful from outside.
We continued to the Gaol prison/museum. An old prison was super awesome to see. We took a guided tour of the facility, and learned about the brutal conditions and new advancements in prisons in the 18th century.
We had the day at leisure, and I think I got a ton accomplished. We went to the hotel afterwards, which is where I wrote yesterdays blog. Then I decided to go ahead and see the live production of Shawshank by myself—I couldn’t get anyone else to go because they were either going on a haunted nightbus going across city, or wanted to nap before they went out to Temple Bar district.
Seeing Shawshank was probably the greatest thing I have done in Dublin. Amazing. Fantastic casting, especially the man who played ‘Red’ (morgan freeman’s character). There were slight differences from the movie, but the movie itself is based off of a book. Really, it was so worth the money to do that. I left the hotel at 7:10, took a cab to get there by 7:20, bought a ticket and was in my seat by 7:25, lights dimmed at 7:30. I sat on the second tier first row center. It’s awesome going to a play by yourself because you get the best single seats that are left over. The theater was beautiful and decorative, about 2.5 times the size of Hayworth Fine Arts at HPU.
So since I had been blogging you, my loyal followers, and went straight to the show, I didn’t get dinner. Got some irish mcdonalds, and it tasted remarkably similar to USA mcdonalds. Imagine that.
Went out on the town around 10:30 to meet up with everyone in the temple bar district…there were a LOT of tourists out ( I guess I shouldn’t be talking since I was taking pictures of pretty lights)
Today is a special mound (called newgrange). Once a year light shines in and lights up the whole thing. Sort of an ancient burial ground with an alien element.
Im averaging over 70 pictures and 10 short videos a day. Looking forward to constructing the memory movie when I get back. To stay organized, I download the pictures every day onto my computer and sort them by day number of the trip. Camera is working fantastic with the netnbook.
Alright, Im leaving the hotel for an hour trip up to newgrange.
andrew