Hey everyone,

I hope everybody's week is going well. So I didn't end up making it to Cork at all this week. After looking at my budget, I realized it would be better just to plan day trips around Dublin and do some last minute site seeing stuff before I peace out of here. 

On Tuesday, I hit up Phoenix Park and bummed around there all day. That place is HUGE, and it had a lot places to just to relax on the grass, so I just read for most of the morning. However, after reading for a few hours I was getting a little anxious and needed something else to do. Luckily, the Dublin Zoo is located right inside of the park. For a reasonable price of 12 euros, I spent the entire afternoon in there. So that was a lot of fun.

Yesterday it was really nice out. So I hopped on a train and went to Greystone. This was only about an hour away and it had a beach that bordered the Irish Sea. I didn't bring a swimming suit at all because it never really gets warmer than 70 degrees here, and I figured that the water would be freezing. However, after sitting on the beach for a few hours and getting the worst back sun burn of my life, I watched hundreds of people swim in the sea. Once I finally became extremely warm, I went to go test the water to see how cold it was and it was fricken freezing!!! I couldn't understand how a bunch of old men could stand swimming in the sea just in their speedos. haha

Today I just kind of bummed around down town and went to a tea room and read in the afternoon, and spent the last part of the day just doing some more site seeing stuff. Tomorrow I'm going to go to a different beach because it is supposed to be really warm again. So that will be awesome! 

But that's about it for me. Hope everyone is doing alright and I will see everyone real soon. Oh yeah, before I forget, I heard a lot of people telling me that the snapfish Web site I started wasn't working. So I started a new one on Shutterfly. The address is: http://andyinireland.shutterfly.com/

Scroll half way down the page and all my new pics should be posted in there. Let me know if it doesn't work again!

Cheers