Dublin, Ireland

We are now in Dublin. Arrived this afternoon after a 3 and 1/2 hour ferry ride. The ride was really smooth, you could not even tell that you were on the water but it was a huge ferry. The skies here are grey and have been so all day. It is very cool for July. Even colder than home was when we left. Everyone sang Happy Birthday to Ralph today on the bus. We just finished supper at an Italian Restaurant and now after this we are going to go back to the hotel and go to the bar to have a birthday drink with friends we have made on the bus from Louisiana and Australia.

Hope everyone is doing well. I check my email but one of my kids(Trish) never emails me so we are assuming that everything is fine on the home front. Tomorrow morning is a tour of the city and then we have the afternoon free for shopping. Will try to make contact here at least once more.