New Years Eve in Dublin

We started out our New Year's Eve by walking to Trinity College and looking around even though the campus was closed for break.

The center of Trinity College Campus

Cool Door outside some apartments on Campus

The playing fields which you weren't allowed to go on

After that we went a random park with an Oscar Wilde Memorial.  Then crossed the street and went to the Irish Natural History museum. Here they had skeletons and replicas all of animals found in Ireland on the first floor, and then skeletons and replicas of animals of the world on the second floor. 

The skeleton of a giant deer, but it was closer to the size of a moose!

Big whale that was found off the coast of County Cork, maybe I'll have a picture of a real one in a later post...

Some of the other displays

After the Natural History Museum, since they were free, we went around the block to the Archeology Museum which was really interesting and I wish we had spent more time there.  It had a lot of history information and artifacts dating back to the Middle ages and the Vikings.

Found the Origin of the Kenny name at the Museum of Archeology

Once we were done there, we made our Peanut Butter and Jam sandwiches on the benches right outside and decided to walk back to the hostel to pick up one of the girls who decided she needed to sleep a little more.  We stopped by a coffee shop and had a cuppa coffee first

Once we took a little rest at the Hostel, we decided to wander a little bit in smaller groups.  Three of the other girls and I went to a cute little Irish candy shop, and Penney's which is a chain store here that is very inexpensive.  We ended our outing by stopping at Tesco which is the grocery store to get some more supplies to make dinner at the Hostel.

That night we went on a pub crawl which was very fun to 5 different pubs.  The first one looked like it was an old apartment because it had fireplaces everywhere and seemed really homey.  It was also half inside and half outside which was cool, it was probably my favorite.  The rest were more of a typical style, but the third was a Brewpub so we got to get a little off the beating path, and not just have something like Guinness which is everywhere.