An update

This is something green in Ireland, in one of the green areas of Ireland, where there are 50 shades of green.

Anthropologists are curious about these gray areas of Ireland, and how the gray things got to be so gray, and here we can see why, because the people inside this place are really really old and their gray hair has spread to the stones.

This was a particularly frightening part of the trip when I thought that Elli had turned into a bear.

Mix of green and gray (see above).  Very old monks live here, from the 14th century, and many of them are reputed to no longer be alive, as evidenced by the massive number of grave markers in the area.

More of the things we have been talking about pictured below.

This is the view that the monks had when they walked around the monastery.  They would look around every morning and say to each other, "Oh my gosh, I love being in Ireland, everything is so green and gray."  (Irish translation not yet available)

This is Elli seeing an apparition of a monkey, that she thought was a monk.

Aha don't forget you are always being watched.

Elli in a tree in the faerie section, it is holding her like it were a hand, and she is ironically posing with her hands here in order to give us a sense of scale.  As you can see, her hands are smaller than the tree.

This is where they put people and crush them when they are not behaving correctly.

This is a cow (Ginger Cows, they call them), a former monk in a past life, and the cow says, "Oh my gosh I love being in Ireland, and this time around I get to have red hair."

This is Elli when she was not as afraid of heights as I am.

We are hearty people and won't take any monkey business from anyone.

A graveyard with the circle and the cross (the pagan and the new in one symbol).  If you pretend these are steering wheels and pretend you are driving a car, someone in charge will come over and ask you to stop.

And of course, this place is just a big meat market.

Italian astrologers built this clock to make you confused about what time it is, in order to get even for an influx of tourism in a beautiful and pristine city.

The water here turns orange at night and scientists cannot explain why.

Elli in an architecture exhibit at the bienalle, pretending to be Mike Teevee.

The same exhibition, demonstrations of ceilings, exposed and etc.  It blew our minds.  Also please note that the colors here are gray and green and also blue and red and orange and yellow (among others).  This is because the Italians have more rods and cones in their eyes to detect color than the Irish do.  At least historically this was true.