Giant's Causeway (northern Ireland)

So my friend Elizabeth (Lizard) came to visit me! So awesome because we were talking on my birthday last week and figured out she should just come here already...so she did! Two days later nonetheless! I'm so excited because she also talked my other friend Stacey into coming next week for a while then Kurt will be here! I'm basically going to have visitors the whole time now which I love! This weekend me and Lizard took off to Northern Ireland to do some sightseeing. It was really amazing as usual for this place! Northern Ireland is home to Giant's Causeway, which is one of the natural wonders of the world apparently! We needed to check it out. We also went to Belfast, but I'll update about that later...so heres a little from our trip on Saturday:

This is Castle Bellingham!!! We saw it on a map and had to check it out. It is now a hotel, but it was really nice. We had lunch in the village ( D lish!)

We had planned on going to Giant's Causeway on Saturday afternoon but got distracted? Ok, the sun went down earlier than expected so we spent the night in Port Rush in Northern Ireland...and found ourselves some amazing arcades to keep us busy! Check out this HUGE crane game!

We literally watched the sun rise on our way to Dunlace Castle in the morning. You can see the castle there in the middle of the pic....it was Amazing!

Dunlace Castle



When we got to Giant's Causeway the visitors center was closed...which wouldn't have been a big deal except we had to trek down the trail sans trolley...and it was frosty and cold and far to walk! But it woke us up for sure! This pic is on the way there from the visitor's center. These rocks are all black and lava'ey? (is that a word?) Lizard told me they must be the giants' charcoal for bbqs :)
Here we are at Giant's Causeway! Apparently the legend is they are a stairway from N. Ireland to Scotland for when the giants from each land would meet in the middle to fight? Well thats what I hear anyway...(or they're some kind of volcanic formation nobody can figure out...take your pick!)

This is from my artsy photo collection ;)

This "castle" was reason enough for a drive all along the coast of N. Ireland! It was a beautiful drive back to Belfast for the afternoon.