Dublin

Our morning was much less eventful than yesterday, but that's not saying much! The main excitement was being parked next to a Russian Destroyer. It was interesting watching their morning routine before heading to our excursion. Today's excursion was a 1/2 day tour of Dublin with stops at St Patrick's Cathedral and Trinity College. After Trinity College we had the option of staying in town and catching a shuttle later, which we did.
We had a very good tour guide today - had lot of humor and did a good job of narrating. After driving around the city we stopped at St Patrick's Cathedral. Our guide said this is the largest cathedral in Europe, which was very surprising. As with other cathedrals, this one is filled with graves, including it's most famous Dean, Jonathan Swift, the author of Gulliver's Travels. It also had very beautiful stain glass windowsas you can see in this picture of the nave.
We then drove through a large park to a cross where Pope John Paul celebrated Mass for over 1 million catholics in 1989, then we headed to Trinity College. I'm not sure why this was a stop, as we took a couple of pictures then headed out for lunch at the Bleeding Horse pub, a favorite of Mary's favorite singer, Mack Bailey. They have taps right at your table so you don't even have to walk to the bar. So we enjoyed a "pub grub" lunch and a pint of Guiness.
After that we headed back to the Princess shuttle bus, but Mary spotted a sweater shop. I found a nice blue pull-over on sale and could not resist. Sure hope we have enough room in our suitcases!
There are having an Irish music and dance show later this afternoon which we plan to attend.
Now to wait for the internet to come back (reportedly after we sail today) so I can post this along with yesterday's post!