Charlie's Angels: Sunday, July 26

How did we find it? The name of the road was spelled wrong. There were several roads with what must have been the right spelling in the middle of Limerick along way from home. Amazingly, we found the local branch for Sunday meetings while driving on the wrong side of the road.

On Sunday, we attended the small Limerick branch for Church. It was almost a miracle that we found it. The address was just Dooradoyle Road with no street address and there were several roads with that name --- one main road with several branches off of it, all with the same name. We put the road into Uncle Brent's GPS and took off only to end up at a bunch of soccor or rugby fields. I remembered that there was also a shopping center on Dooradoyle Road, so we told the GPS to go to the shopping center. We had to go all around the shopping center to exit and just as we were about to leave, we saw the church just across the street. We enjoyed services. There were almost as many visitors as members. There was a couple from Arizona, one from Iowa (the husband worked in Iraq and was just on holiday) and there were a few from Nigeria besides us. I asked someone about why it seemed like everyone was named Kelly and he told me that his mother had 15 children when she joined the church back in the mid-70s.

No, Dallin and Daniel. This is not a picture of the church building. It is a picture of an old castle/fortress. You would have enjoyed seeing this.

King John's castle was first a Viking stronghold in 922. A castle was built there under orders from King John about 1200. The Castle endured multiple sieges culminating in the siege of 1691 when the English Williamite forces lay siege on the Irish and French held up in the Castle. This led to the famous Treaty of Limerick.

In the 19th to the early 20th century, it was the home of British forces with Irish town across the river. Turrets were only placed on the Irishtown side.