UK 2016 - Ireland

Landesk purchased a company in England. They wanted Brian to go and show them some things so I decided to go with him. We left on Thursday, November 10th and came home on the 23rd, the night before Thanksgiving.
I really wanted to see Ireland since Brian really liked it while he was there some years ago again, for work. We spent the weekend there before heading to England. We got to NY around 6 and our plane to Dublin left at 9:30. We got VERY little sleep the whole night and arrived about 8 or so Dublin time. (7 hours ahead of Utah). For some reason I started feeling really sick after we landed and I stood up to get off the plane. Walking around helped a little but then I just got feeling worse, and on the bus to our hotel I lost it. I couldn't do anything about it and it was embarrassing but luckily only 2 people noticed.😮Anyway, after that I felt a lot better. That first day we saw as much as we could of Dublin. I just LOVED Ireland. The City, the country, the people, everything was so charming and just lovely. The buildings are beautiful, and I can only imagine what it is like in the Springtime. It rains a lot so it is so green everywhere even though it was going into winter, just like here. I noticed the rain is different there though. It is more of a gentle drizzle. Really the only way I can describe it is soft.

These pictures are a bit out of order. This was on our second day when we took a private tour to the Glendalough Mountains. A lot of movies were filmed here, including scenes in Braveheart. It was just  amazing and beautiful.

We bought delicious fish and chips from a street vendor right by this bridge:

Dublin

On every corner is pub. 

Dublin Castle:

They raise a lot of sheep so there are many Wool stores. 

Still Glendalough and Brian taking pictures of our French tour buddies. 

St. Patricks Cathedral:

The following day we did a little more exploring around the city before we met a former co-worker of Brians, Brian Boye. He and 2 friends came and we hung out a local pub to visit before we walked to Aviva Stadium to see the Ireland vs Canada Rugby match. we have never seen Rugby live and it was really a lot of fun!

Family Vacation

A couple weeks ago we were invited down to the Robison Ranch for a few days. The manager is a friend of Brian's. The same ranch he took the girls to last year and where the dad of our new baby horse lives. Anyway, he (Tabor) invited the whole family down. We took Roxy and Jazzy and Brian helped Tabor herd some cattle while the kids and I hung out on the ranch. One of the days we went to the Boulder Harvest Moon festival. We have never been to an event quite like it before. It was pretty fun. A little odd, but fun.  A lot of people in Boulder are hippies and live off the earth, natural foods, etc. They had a lama wandering around the yard, taught classes on weather, candle making, "hay making", and gardening. A long with spinning wheel demonstrations. They served food and herb tea, then when we used a plastic cup, plate, or utensil, we had to wash them to be reused. The girls had a blast making pottery, while Kort got attacked by a rooster.

Here are some photos from around the ranch:

Inside the very large arena. 

Here is Wilson. Our baby's dad. He is a son of Peptoboonsmal. 

Here is Jazzy running around

Brian and Tabor heading out to change sprinklers

Indoor arena

Bull pen

Crazy kids

Jazzy, once again. 

It is an amazing, beautiful ranch and I could live there quite contentedly. 

Tabor's wife, Katie, was so nice and fed us every night. She took us to the festival and the museum. They are a very nice family. 

Our last day there we took a drive towards Escalante and went for a really fun hike to Calf Creek falls. It was beautiful!