Sticking our heads out of a window on the top of the Castle!!
Loving it!!

I'm kissing the Blarney Stone!!! They hold you so you don't fall 3 stories!









Papa kissing the Blarney stone. A couple of days later he got a cold and blamed in on the stone and then he so kindly gave it to me!! I love it when Papa shares things with me!








Some more of beautiful Ireland!!
More of the Castle

The view from one of the windows. It's so beautiful.
















walking the stairs to get to the Blarney stone










On top looking down into the main part of the castle











More of the beauty that surrounds the castle

Here's the Blarney Castle in Ireland. It's old and crumbling but it was really cool to climb all through it.
Here's one of the towers. I'm sure some beautiful damsel was locked up here long ago and her handsome knight in shinning armor came and rescued her.

These are all hand etched. I took pictures of my
favorite ones




















Look at the precious babies on this vase!














Paul and I toasting, sort of, our trip to Ireland and the Waterford Crystal factory!! Next posting will be the Blarney Castle!

Papa throwing an imperfect Waterford Crystal glass into the box to get recycled. If a piece of crystal is imperfect it is thrown back into the refiners fire and made again. All Waterford Crystal is perfect or they won't sell it.

Some Waterford Crystal trophies. Their logo is the Sea Horse. Look and see if you can see the 4 leaf clover in its tail!