A quiet day in County Donegal .......

   It was rainy this morning so we decided it would be a better day for visiting than sightseeing. We stopped by for tea with Mary's cousin Brigid in Cranford and also met her daughter and grandkids.

   Afterward the rain let up and we thought it might be ok for a drive after all. We went through Carrigart and Creeslough out to the tip of the northwest coast, a point named Bloody Foreland. It was pretty remote but beautiful, even when the rain started again. From the point we could see Tory Island in the distance, the last piece of Ireland that ship passangers saw as they left home for America.

   On the way back we stopped in Dunfanaghy for dinner (the fish special) at Arnold's Hotel. Later there was more tea and visiting with Mary's cousins David and Mary Ellen who live in Mary's mother's home village of Screen.

   It gets dark pretty late, around 10:00 pm and we left David & Mary Ellen's with just enough light to find our way down the narrow roads. We were pretty ready to turn in by the time we got back to the room. We decided to spend another night in Milford and drive to Dublin on Monday. There's more to see up here in Donegal and we're expecting crowds and lots of security in Dublin for President Obama's visit.