honeymoon in Ireland... (part 1)

The monday after our wedding we left for our honeymoon in Ireland, which was a surprise to me because Nick and his mother planned the whole thing & didn't let me in on any of the details... We left Phoenix in the morning and flew to Newark, NJ for our connecting flight to Dublin. We arrived in Dublin at 10a local time. Our first adventure was taking the bus to our hotel!

Our first stop was the Westbury hotel in Dublin - which was BEAUTIFUL! We were upgraded to a suite and it was amazing!! We were greeted with champagne & a basket full of fruit...

Since the day was just getting started we decided we should stay up and explore, even though we had just flown 12 hours! :) So we went out into Dublin:





















relaxed and took a cat nap by the water fountain at the local park

people watched with a coffee on the steps at Trinity College

stopped for a drink at Peter's Pub






And when we got back to our hotel... our bed had been turned down and we had chocolates waiting for us!! I could get used to this! :)












On Tuesday we took the bus back to the airport and picked up our rental car to drive to Adare Manor just outside of Limerick!!! I was a little bit scared because they drive on the opposite side of the street, but Nick did great! Only a few mishaps... We quickly learned that it was easier to just follow the road signs for our destination than to try to hassel with Google mapping it! And we got a laugh every time Nick tried to signal a turn & instead flipped on the windshield wipers! :)


Stay tuned, more to come...