Hey Dad!

Dad? Did you get a chance to see your father?

Yeah! My father retired recently and I think when he’s not fly fishing he’s in danger of getting bored at home 🙂 So he came over to see me now that I’m a little bit settled. He was here for about a week and I was able to show him around Limerick and the University. We had a lot of time to walk around the city and explore some parks and museums. The weather was a bit unfortunate but we made the most of it. One time when we were in a park the storm started coming down really hard. We sought shelter in a local cafe and had some delightful pastries.

So Jason. You showed your father around some local spots in Limerick. Local spots like… a Castle??

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I don’t wanna talk about it.

But yes, we went to King John’s Castle. It was sort of neat to walk through again and be able to read and understand things with a little more context and acquire a deeper understanding of Limerick and Irish history. My father toured through Ireland on his bicycle a long time ago when he lived in England as a young adult. Upon entering King John’s Castle and the Museum, he asked the woman working at the front desk if the entrance had always been here or if it had been at a different point. The woman remembered it had been moved about 25 years prior. I thought that was rather impressive and kind of funny considering I can barely remember anything that happened in my classes last week.