Good-bye Ireland!

We were awake early on our last day in Ireland.  Our hostess provided a light breakfast, we stopped for gas, and were on our way to the airport in Shannon to return our rental car and hopefully get on a plane bound for home.  (When you're flying stand-by, you never really know until the last minute!)  We rented our car at the airport in Dublin, but returned it at the Shannon airport--scratch free I might add!  The check-in lines were L-O-N-G at American Airlines because it was their first day of the season flying out of Shannon and there were a LOT of trainees working.  Security lines were long too.  And pre-US entry lines.  AND customs lines.  But we got to our gate with time to spare.  If fact, we had time for a chocolate muffin and latte!  And we were VERY happy to find that there was indeed room for us on the plane.

I can't imagine a more wonderful trip.

Good-bye Emerald Isle!  Hope to see you again someday.