In honor of St. Patrick’s Day this month, I am sharing some more of my photos from Ireland.
Walking up the path to Blarney Castle in County Cork, Ireland. You can see more of my Ireland pictures:
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Pittsburgh Skyline
Bag filled with goodies given to the girls at the DoubleTree Hotel
Tiger at the Pittsburgh Zoo
Boarded up damaged walls from the storm that we barely missed at the Carnegie Science Center
Sisters just having fun
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The Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium opened a new exhibit this summer called Water’s Edge. The display is built to look like a seaside town with building facades and tanks in between. You wind your way from the top level and viewing the animals from above ground/water to going underneath the tunnel where you can get a view of the same animals from down below.
The polar bears were definitely having fun! They had big plastic barrels that they had chewed up that now resembled buckets. One polar bear was acting so much like a kid. He would pick up the bucket and throw it overhead to the water, then he would belly flop into the water to play with and then retrieve the bucket. Luckily I was able to capture it on video.
I am on vacation this week - thus the lack of new information on this site! We decided to take a trip to my husband’s home town of Pittsburgh, but give it a bit of a tourist twist.
Since we live a bit out in the country, we always love staying in high rise hotels in cities whenever we can. We woke up this morning to thunder and lightning - it sounded so different bouncing off high rise hotels rather than our trees at home. When we finally got going we had decided to go to the Pittsburgh Zoo instead of the Carnegie Science Center. Let’s just say we made a great decision! The zoo wasn’t crowded and we enjoyed seeing all the animals. About 10 minutes after we left the zoo another round of storms came through and it was bad. The Science Center was hit during the storm and windows were blown out on the 4th floor. Did I say that I am glad we went to the zoo?
Anyhow, power is out all over the place here and roads are flooded. We are north of the city visiting with relatives right now. I am glad that I packed the laptop and even more glad that I have a Verizon wireless broadband card. It was the only way we could watch the news this evening.
Hope you are having a great evening and I’ll be back to my regular posting schedule shortly. Back to our adventure of a vacation!
Oh, and I won’t be hosting Casual Friday tomorrow - maybe HomeMom3 can have it at her place instead. It’ll be back next week.
Are you part of a family that plans out vacations well in advance? Do you research rates, hotel recommendations and map out your activities? That would just make too much sense for this family!
We are planning on taking a few days vacation this week, but up until a few hours ago, we didn’t know when we were leaving, where we were going, or where we were going to stay!! The lack of planning always stresses me out, but looking back on past trips that were formulated on the fly, we always have fun.
A few years ago we waited until the week before to plan our trip to Orlando and we lucked out BIG time. We were able to stay at the Hilton Grand Vacation Club near Disneyworld - a two bedroom suite that slept 6 (we had my cousin with us) was only $150 a night - a steal for what we got. The resort was gorgeous and we had a great time.
Then there was the year that we were supposed to go to Florida and they got a hurricane or three. Instead we headed aimlessly towards Hershey, PA and spent a day there enjoying Hershey Park then headed up toward Mystic, CT. That was a lot of fun until I broke my ankle, but hey, what’s a vacation without some drama?
Last year we decided to go to New York City at the last minute and ended up with a great rate at the Doubletree in Times Square. The girls and I lived it up at the American Girl Place while the boys took in fire stations, the Intrepid museum and Ground Zero. We stopped at the Borgata in Atlantic City for a night on the way home and then Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
And what about this year? We finally decided we are going to Pittsburgh. We have family there but we are going to stay downtown this time so we have easy access to the zoo, the science center, and such. Who knows what other adventures we’ll find along the way? We always manage to have fun.
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