greetings from Ireland!

Hello!! Today is Aunt Sharon's birthday and we are in lovely Dublin, Ireland!! We took that hop off/hop on tour bus and it was great. Loved it. We have been to York, the Preston temple and Conwy, Wales since I last wrote. In York we saw the minster, and the Castle Museum. The B&B was the attic room, with no window, and it was what we called "The Closet". My alarm clock also tells the temperature and it was 78 degrees at night up there. It was a good breakfast, semi close to town, nice people but hot and cramped. Also the bathroom was down on the landing outside of the room. Oh, well, one night you can do anything. We then went to the Preston Temple and Chorley. The temple is in Chorley. As we were with Kim Money in Edinburgh, we found out that they were going to be there the same day that we were. Cool! We got to spend some time with them doing laundry in the temple workers apt, bldg. and well, that was an experience. But Aunt Sharon and I did a session in the temple that morning and then she watched Caroline and Madison so that Kim could see the BYU students and her own children do baptisms. I got to be the "chaperone" for the confirmations. After the temple stuff we got to go with the BYU students on their bus and go into Preston to see some church history sites. We walked all over that town!! Poor Aunt Sharon. She's glad that she couldn't go with them on the month-long trip, because she says that she could never do the tour with them and all that walking. The temple was a great resting place. Wonderful rooms and wonderful people. It was great to be with the saints in another part of the world. "It's a Small World" in the church, as we all know. A man helped us on the bus from the train station to the temple and we never would have made it without him. Come to find out that he was going to the temple too and was a man from Scotland and from one of Ryan Money's areas. (We just kept counting the Tender Mercies of the Lord.) He also carried Aunt Sharon's suitcase for her. She says that next time she is bringing one change of clothes, if she does anything like this again. I still can't make my computer work here. I was able to make it work on the express train and was trying to upload some pictures but they wouldn't go through. So frustrating!!! Anyway, Conwy was wonderful!!! We just loved it and had a B&B right next to the castle. Such a cute, quaint town. We walked the city walls and took dozens of pictures, every time we turned a corner there was a great view!!! We took the ferry over here yesterday and will take it out again tomorrow morning. Then it's on to Chester for the day and then Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwick, Coventry and then to Hallowed London to finish off the trip. I am using the hotel's computer here in Dublin. I unknowingly found a great location for the hotel on the main street here, but it's not that nice. Good location though. O Connell Street!!! Anyway, I'll try and write more before I go home if I can find a way. I hope that you are all doing well. Ta ta for now. :o)