I may have been overly optimistic about our jet lag situation as I the wrote blog yesterday. As soon as I hit "publish" at about 9:30 pm, both kids were up on-and-off until well after midnight. We're hoping to get them on a "European" sleep schedule of about 9-8 (instead of 7-6 at home), but we're not there yet. We'll see how tonight goes.
I had to wake everyone up at 8:15 am so that we could get to our timed 9:30 visit to the Dublin Children's Museum. The place is small, and pretty busy so you have to book ahead for a 2 hour visit interval. They both fell asleep on the 20 minute drive there.
The kids perked up when we got to the museum. There was definitely lots to keep them busy for 2 hours.
There was a cool looking outdoor garden area on the roof, but it was closed because of the rain.
The museum was out in the suburbs, so we were able to stop back in at home for lunch and a much needed nap.
After nap, we hopped on a double decker bus into the city centre. We wandered through Trinity College, and stopped in to the National Museum of Natural History for a quick browse before close. Jasper was asleep, but Ellis loved the cases full of taxidermied animals.
From there, it was on to St Stephen's Green to see the birds and flowers.
The kids were pretty pumped to see a swan, and lots of ducks diving for weeds in the pond.
It was raining pretty hard by then, so we stopped in a pub for a Guinness and "cold regular white milk" to warm up.
We walked back to the bus stop through one of the pedestrian streets, where Jasper could check out the "rock star" busker on each block. Riding in the top of the double decker bus on the way home may have been Jasper's highlight of the day.
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