Long Week-end etc.

Justin Maynes was married to Jordyn on Saturday.  We attended the family dinner and visited with Joan and her family.  It was a rainy day.

Nathan and family arrived after the reception and spent a couple of days with us.  We attended church on Sunday and Sue-anne and Carter came in the evening.

Nathan and family entered a race at Indian Battle Park on Monday morning.  All but the two youngest did 5k .  Bob ran with Lochlan in the 1K.

Nathan and Tara left in the afternoon.  We went to Family Home Evening later.  We did some home teaching and visiting teaching during the week or so, otherwise it was quiet.

Today Bob walked over to check out the progress on the Henderson lake pool.  It is coming along.

Home in Lethbrige

We left Dublin on the 2nd of May.  Our plane was several hours late leaving and we barely made our connection in Toronto, but it all worked out and Nathan met us at the airport and we stayed in Calgary over night.

We drove home the next day.  Our crabapple tree had blossomed while we were away and all the flowers had blown off the tree and were lining our driveway.

Now we are nearly over our jet lag, I think.  I went to "Time Out For Woman" last weekend and Bob went to Waterton on Saturday and spent the day with Edward's family.

We went to the Mosers for Mothers Day dinner on Sunday.

On Wednesday we went to the temple.  Sue-anne dropped in for a visit. Our home teachers came that evening.

Today Joan came for a visit.

Return to Dublin

Glendalough is a beautiful setting which has ruins of seven churches.

It was back to Dublin where we started our tour.  We stopped at Trinity College and visited their library and the Book of Kells.  The library was given the legal rights to a free volume of every book published in Britain and Ireland.  The Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript from the Middle Ages given to Trinity College in the 1660’s.  It is written in Latin and contains the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.  This book was probably made close to the year 800.

That night  we went to O'Connells Restaurant for a farewell dinner.  The owner demonstrated making Irish Soda Bread (which had been served every morning for breakfast) and while we ate we were serenaded by a couple of singers singing Irish Songs as well as some such songs as "Alberta Bound".