First Saturday

Maybe we got some of the Irish luck because Connor let us sleep in this morning. We did laundry in the morning and then went out to go to the Museum of Natural History or the "Dead Zoo". All museums are free here. It was pretty interesting looking at all the different animals that they had on display. There were a lot of birds too. Connor liked walking around and pointing at the animals. There was a cabinet and drawers with surprises inside which was Connor's favorite thing in the museum. He loves trying to open the kitchen cabinets here and usually gets scolded so he loved that he could open and close the doors as much as he wanted. He's so funny. I have included a picture.

We then went on Grafton Street and found a cafe to eat lunch at outside. It was a sunny warm day in Dublin and a perfect day for being outside. Connor has started a phase where he screams whenever we sit down at a restaurant so it was fine for him to scream on the street versus inside the restaurant.

After eating we went to the Museum of Archeology (very close by to the natural history museum) and walked around the first floor before they closed. We'll probably go back tomorrow to see the second floor. I love that the museums are free. There were some neat exhibits especially the one on the bog bodies. The second floor has Egyptian artifacts so that should be interesting too.

After the museum closed we walked around trying to find a store that sold these clear rain and wind covers for the stroller. After the awful rain yesterday we definitely need one for our stroller. I would see these rain covers on all the other strollers we passed. Not really having any luck we went into the Disney store as a last resort and a sales person there suggested we go to the St. Stephens shopping center and go to a store called Argos. The shopping center is very bright and airy with glass ceilings and huge clocks. I included a picture below. We found a store called Mothers Care which sold baby products and they were out of stock of the baby jogger cover. We tried the Argos store which had generic covers and a unique storefront. There were a bunch of computers and Argos catalogs, a pay station, and a pick up counter. You look up the product you want in the catalog, search the computer to see if in stock, place the order, pay and then pick it up at the counter. They were also out of the cover we wanted. We did see that both stores had the items we wanted in stock at the Jervis shopping center down near O'Connell street across the river. So we trekked over to that area (took around 10-15 minutes) and saw that the Argos store already closed. Mothers Care was still open and thankfully had the cover in stock. It was great finding out where two of the shopping malls are. They seem like nice malls and the st. Stephens mall will be pretty close to our new place. It's nice learning more about our new city. I would like to meet some moms around here. Hopefully I can find a moms group or some moms in my office. Unfortunately moms group are always during a week day in the middle of the day which is not convenient for a working mom. All in all an eventful and productive day!