Castle Day Trip

On Sunday, one of my roommates asked me if I wanted to go to Blackrock Castle and Observatory. Never one to turn down a castle, I agreed to go and went with her and some of her friends. The castle is in city limits which still throws me off that there are castles this close by to where I live.  Like I was walking along the parking lot and all of a sudden I look up and there's a castle.  The castle was used as a fortress to protect against raiders and after being burned down a few times, was restored by the city in 2000 and is open to touring. It's other main attraction is the observatory. While we couldn't actually use the observatory, we could walk up to it (still hate those narrow castle steps) and there was a lot of science oriented fun in the lobby like learning about the planets and interactive games where you could write a message to aliens and try to guess which animals are found on Earth and which ones aren't.  In case you were wondering, giant mushroom fungi do exist whereas griffins do not. We also got to color in a spaceship or an alien depending on which page of the coloring book you managed to get a hold of. We had a picnic and after a few tries, managed to find the appropriate bus back to our apartment.

Here are some photos of the weekend.

                                                               The Swinging Blue Cats!

                                                                   Blackrock Castle!

 

And a little clip of the weekend courtesy of El Hombre Blokes