Part 4: Irish Genealogy Trip And Last Day

So on their last full day, Mimi and I made a trip into Dublin with baby Simon. Wayne was still doing really bad so he stayed home with Marko and Norah (aided by iPads and movies) while we had this genealogy outing. This was really important to Mimi (and Sarah) to do this while she was here and given how sick we all got, we never made it in. So, we were really happy to have a few hours in the city, with only baby Simon in tow, to uncover some tidbits about our family Flynn's.

 Mimi, like a kid in a candy store in the Genealogy room!

Mimi at the computers with Simon, printing away. We did find one cool thing - the 1901 census form, filled out by our Great-great grandfather, Francis Flynn. And on that form, we learned that his wife and children were born in County Longford, but that he (Francis) was born in Country Leitrim. Also we learned Francis Flynn's birthdate which was great. This was a piece of information we didn't have before so it was great to find out. So my mother's grandfather was John Flynn (as was her father), and Francis Flynn would be my mother's Great Grandfather.

The National Library Cafe

 Back to the pirate park on their last evening (Norah and Marko's favorite park). It's less than 2 blocks from our apartment so we took them there quite often.

 For our last dinner, we let Wayne nap upstairs and we took the kids down to Milano Pizza (at the base of our apartment building). It never disappoints.

Oh and Mimi fed Simon his very first solid food!! We picked him up some rice cereal and he Loooooved it.

We've had a lot of these in the house and given that I think this is a uniquely Irish term, I decided to take a picture. Meet: MANSIZE tissue. I love how they say it so non-chalantly - like it isn't completely weird. They really are mansize though.

Sad - taking them back to the airport this morning. Norah's trying to put her arm around Marko. :)

 We were able to watch them taxi out and take off so that was cool!

 And then we bought Norah some new shoes. :) Courtesy of Auntie Mimi. Can you tell she spoils this girl (and us)??

These little nail stickers are also from Auntie Mimi.

These stayed on for all of 4 minutes but she loved them for those 4 minutes. When she showed me, she held out her hands and said "These are girl things Mama".