Paris and Dublin - March 2006
First trip back to the land of the Frogs since moving to the UK...first trip ever to Dublin, and managed to spend St. Patty's Day there.
   

View up the Champs Elysee toward the Arc de Triomphe.
Heading up the steps of the Arc.
View toward the Louvre down the Champs...Notre Dame is in the far right.
Chaos on the streets below!
Obligatory picture of la Tour Eiffel.
Cool building with crosses in all the windows.
Zoom toward Sacre Coeur from the top of the Arc.
Debbie, Paige, Susan, Dovie on top of the Arc.
View from our hotel room.
It looks so much bigger zooming in from Trocadero!
Just a cool shot of a train bridge in the distance...
Inside the Musee d'Orsay, which used to be a train station.
Wish my zoom could get closer without getting grainy!
St. Michael trampling on Lucifer.
Eve, after the apple...
Obligatory cheesy picture with the horse outside Musee d'Orsay (think "Musta...
Rose window inside St. Chappele, near Notre Dame.
Not that you can tell, but this window's stained glass tells the Exodus story.
Freedom. Equality. Brotherhood.
"I got it! I got it!!"
Sacre Coeur from below.
Inside the dome - Father, Son and Holy Spirit in mosaic.
Crossing the street in Dublin! Little help!?
View of Christ Church Cathedral from the Guinness Storehouse.
Christ Church - 15th c. lecturn made for the first English Bible in Dublin.
Mummified cat and mouse found in an organ mid 1800s!! The eternal chase!
In the crpyt of Christ Church.
Sermon handout from 1769 - Divine Predestination & Foreknowledge
Moving on to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
Boys choir practice for the daily Evensong service.
Still inside St. Patrick's...
...Mosaic cross...still inside St. Patrick's.
Susan, Dovie, Debbie and Paige in Fitzgerald's off O'Connell Street in Dublin.
Susan and Dovie
Add new friends Jeff and Leo
Leo, Debbie, Paige, Susan, Dovie, Jeff
Left side of the table at Hard Rock Cafe. Yeah, we went there.
Right side of the table at Hard Rock.
Live music and some place I can't remember the name of...
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!
Awww....aren't we cute!?
Let's have some GUINNESS!
"The essence of Guinness is all around you."
Some silly amount of water pumps through this place every day...
The gang under the "waterfall".
How perfect is THIS shot??