Family Fun

I've been a terrible blogger.  How many posts can I start by saying that?  Evidently every single one, as of late.  I guess it doesn't help that we've had 3 weeks of visitors plus trips before that plus more visitors before that.  BUT our last visitors just left on Sunday and we've booked our flights home to Dtown and things are happening quickly and crazily.  Ahhhh!

(I may or may not have cried when we booked our return tickets to Dallas.  But it's fine!  It's gonna be fine!  It has to be fine!  God help me.)

Anyway, over the past month, two out of the three sets of visitors have been family!  Drew's cousins Zach and Danny came for a short and sweet visit, complete with lots of Guinness and whiskey drinking, and then Drew's mom came and helped us cross a bunch of fun stuff off our Dublin bucket list!  Here are some pictures:

Cousins first lunch at The Hairy Lemon with Guinness and fish n' chips.

Obgligatory picture in front of Temple Bar...

...and in front of the Guinness Storehouse

Cousins!  Can you tell they're related?

Everyone at The Stag's Head.

So...we've been making a Dublin bucket list for the past couple months and we've never had time to complete anything but we finally did!  And Susan helped make our dreams come true.

Dreams like...going on a Viking Boat Cruise where you get to wear these cool Viking hats and yell at people on the street while getting some good info about our fair city!

Dreams like...Afternoon Tea at the Shelbourne Hotel (Drew'd never gotten to do it and it was super fun and lovely)!

And eating a beautiful seaside lunch in Howth before we got on our Dublin Bay Cruise!

And dreams of having one last amazingly delicious steak dinner in Dublin at a place we can hardly afford!

Yum yum yum yum.

We had a great time with our fam and a great time with my pals Lauren and Steven and now...we shall focus on our time left here.  Which isn't much.

I regret to inform the very few readers I have that I'll be blogging even less over the next month or so as we'll be traveling pretty much non-stop.  We leave for San Fran on Thursday for our best pals' (from Dublin) wedding and get back Tuesday, and then we leave for another 3 weeks for our Farewell Tour. Then we're home for a week and then we leave.  And we're not going to think or talk about what happens after that because I don't want to.

But anyways, I'll try to check in some, but apologies in advance for being the worst blogger ever these past couple of months!

Off to pack - goodnight!