Yesterday we visited Glendalough (or Glen of the Two Lakes). You can see one in the background here, the lower lake. Megan, Langston, Jade, Kristen, Alexa, and Ariel hiked quite a ways up towards the Spinc to pose for this picture. It was our first day of really bad weather--rain, cold, wind.

Glendalough is a monastery town first settled in the 6th century by St. Kevin, the St. Francis of Ireland. For centuries, Glendalough was the capital city of Leinster, the eastern province of the island.

You can see part of the monastery behind Emory, Jade (and Shannon): a stone-roofed church called St. Kevin's kitchen.

We said goodbye to Leslie, our coach driver yesterday evening, and then many of us went to Oliver St. John Gogarty's in Temple Bar to hear a couple hours of Irish music.