Greetings from Kildare

On terrible hotel wifi so can't really post photos, but I am in Ireland so everything is great! After spending most of yesterday traveling east from Seattle, we flew overnight from Dulles to Dublin (taking off an hour and a half late because of a catering issue, but it was a much bigger plane than originally planned, so we could spread out across entire center rows and get some sleep). 

We met Cheryl at the airport and drove from Dublin to Kildare, where we spent the afternoon seeing Brigid sites -- Brigid's Well, the Kildare Heritage Centre with its VR Legends of Kildare (which knows Brigid was a goddess before she was a saint), St. Brigid's Cathedral, tower, and cemetery, the Carmelite Friary Church, and St. Brigid's Parish Church. It was drizzly and cool.

We just ate dinner at Soul Burger, one of the restaurants at the Kildare House Hotel, which has plenty of vegetarian and vegan options and we needed something light after eating at weird hours on planes for a day and a half. Tomorrow we're on to Blarney and various other castles, plus hoping for more views of farms and more sheep obstructions in the road like we had today!