Easter

While we were in Dublin we met up with a German friend of Sam's and her boyfriend, who both live and work in the city.  We went to a pub with live Irish folk music and played our favorite card game, Zwanzig ab (Bayrisch):

On Sunday, we went to the national church for service. It was a nice building and the homily was great:

 

We then checked out the main catholic church in the area:

 

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Dublin has an awesome bike program.  For 5 euros you get unlimited access to bikes if your ride is under 30 minutes. over thirty minutes, it is a euro an hour.  Because there are bike stands everywhere, you can just hop on and off at every one of your destinations.  We liked this and used it a lot:

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We took bikes to the Guiness Storehouse and learned a little bit about the company.  It wasn't actually to interesting in terms of brewing, but it was cool to learn about the company and see all of the old advertisements.  Fun fact: the Guiness storehouse started after Mr. Guiness secured a 9,000 year lease to land and water rights for about 45 pounds a year.  They are only 200 years into their lease.

 After Guiness we met up again with Sam's friends and did some more exploring.  There were a lot of people partying in the streets because it also serves as the anniversary of Irish revolutionary movements.