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After three solid days of mom-daughter time, Kate took a break Monday morning, which meant I went to Phoenix Park to see the deer. There’s a wild herd of deer that hang out in a very large park. There’s never a guarantee that you’ll see them. It’s a couple miles to the park and you could be walking a couple miles more looking for them. It’s not an outing for everyone. I was just about to give up the search when I saw them. They are wild but tame. So, I was able to get pretty close to them. They have amazing antlers and it’s just such a rare treat to catch them.

Even if I hadn’t seen them, I saw plenty on the way to the park and back. I got pictures of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral, the house where I lived one summer behind St Audeon’s, Collins Barracks (sadly the museum was closed but the outside is cool too), the Anna Livia statue (aka Floozy in the Jacuzzi) – please note life imitating art with the man asleep on the bench behind her and finally the Guinness factory. (Smells like the Malt-Meal Cereal factory in Owatonna.)

Then I met Kate for lunch and we went on more adventures. We stopped by the National Museum to see the bog bodies. These are bodies of people who were often brutally killed and then thrown into a bog, where their bodies are weirdly preserved. It was a favorite creepy but cool activity when the girls were young.

Next was a quick stop at the National Library for the WB Yeats exhibit. Always interesting to re-read Yeats and it’s a very cool building. I don’t know that I have been in there since I was a student.

Next was another quick walk through the National  Gallery. When the kids were young, we used to visit often. They have great visitor packets for kids to make the art even more interesting and the girls did a free class or two on various Saturdays, so it’s more nostalgia. Last bit of nostalgia was seeing the Oscar Wilde statue in Merrion Park.

At night, I met up with my friend Karina. As usual, I forgot to get a picture but it’s always fun to catch up.