Bake's Bumbling Blog

We walked around Dublin Castle today but didn't take the tour because of the weather and having to pick-and-choose our activities.  From there we walked to St. Patrick's Cathedral which we all really enjoyed and it was in our opinion the best cathedral we saw on the trip.  We then went and took a tour of the Kilmainham Gaol which was an old Irish prison where they held and executed many of the leaders of the Irish rebellion in the early 20th century and it was a pretty good tour.  At night we went out in the Temple Bar area again and actually found a bar that was playing some NFL football where we drank for the rest of the night.

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Me and the guys made it to Ireland and we are already having a blast.  We figured our first day was best spent at the Guinnes Brewery i.e. Min's heaven, and it was a really cool place to see.  At night we went out to the Temple Bar area which was PACKED.  Already met a lot of cool people and watching brits and irish trash talk each other is hilarious.  Going to Dublin Castle and St. Patrick's Cathedral today and who knows where else.

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The morning of our 8th day we got to take a tour of the mobile tenting camps inner-workings, seeing the kitchen, pantry, and even where they sleep.  The funny part is after a week without TV and being in the middle of the Serengeti we saw that the staff actually did have a small TV with satellite programming and even a dell computer to translate it!  We then drove to the Ngorogoro crater which was smaller but had sooooo many people there.  While we were eating lunch we saw some flying black kites which look like eagles kinda swoop down to steal peoples food right out of there hands.  The animals in Ngorogoro seemed much less frightened of people and so we were able to get to within a few feet of most of them including 2 lions!  The next day we left the crater and on our travels we stopped by a real Iraqw village.  We got to see two different former Iraqw houses as well as some traditional garb and what people would wear to a wedding summary.  We then t...