Carnlough, Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, Giant's Causeway (Day 9)

Sunday June 10th was an AMAZING sightseeing day that began with a traditional fry at our house. Our Irish friend Fiona had slept over the night before and prepared a "fry" for us in the morning. The house smelled wonderful as she was cooking. She fried up potato bread and soda bread, sausages, bacon and eggs.

Tim picked up us in a van around half ten (everyone says "half ten" here rather than ten thirty) and we headed out on the Causeway Coastal Route. Tim's wife, Gail, also came along with us. For much of the day, we enjoyed the beautiful scenery along the ride to the Giant's Causeway.

After an hour or so, we stopped at a town called Carnlough. Carnlough was yet another gorgeous seaside town - see for yourself:

In Carnlough, we also stopped at a place called Mauds to get ice cream. Mauds is pretty popular in Northern Ireland. All of us got a flavor called "Poor Bear" (although Tim and many others call it "Pooh Bear"). It has this candy called honeycomb in it, and it was really good!

After Carnlough, we drove through a different town that had a goat as its mascot. I hopped out of the car and took some pictures with it (I love goats):

After some driving, we made it to the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge in Antrim. The bridge is located over a chasm that fisherman used to cross to check on their nets. Today, its just the site of a beautiful park and a scary-yet-exhilarating rope bridge that isn't for the faint of heart:

We all conquered the rope bridge which was impressive - the bridge shook like crazy from the wind!

Next, we were onto the Giant's Causeway. The Giant's Causeway is a World Heritage Site that has columns of layered basalt that were created during a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago. Overall, the site just looks really cool!

Luckily, we had a beautiful day at the Causeway.