May 1st, 2015:

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The second half of our trip in Ireland (check out Part one here), was through the south of Ireland – hitting up Connemara, the Cliffs of Moher, and  Cork before heading back to the airport trying to visit every castle we passed (of which there are quite a few).  Our niece Madalyn kept me on my toes the entire time and brought an energy to Felicia and I that we may have forgot about.  My only regret was that it was only a 10 day trip….

Although, to be fair we did end up with a bonus night in London because Madalyn and I (despite running like mad bastards through the airport), missed our connecting flight back to L.A. – No harm done though, this kid just agreed that we should spend the night exploring the city and seeing what there is to see.

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Cliffs of Moher

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Madalyn even took a chocolate making class with our AirBnB host, David – if you are in Cork I highly encourage you to stay with David and Angie, who are easily some of the best AirBnB hosts we’ve ever come across.

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Madalyn and I kissed the Blarney stone on the high walls of the Blarney castle.

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These ruins are officially called “Hore Abbey”, to which Madalyn began innocently screaming “It’s an abbey full of hores!” (Honestly not knowing what a ‘hore’ would refer to.) This topic quickly devolveded into a nice conversation about the worlds oldest profession from her aunt and uncle…

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Thank you Madalyn for this amazing experience and I can’t wait until we get to go on another adventure!