Gem and Jo Take The Phoenix Park

So the other day, it was sunny in Dublin for once and we decided to embrace this rarity and go for a picnic in one of the largest parks in a European city, The Phoenix Park.
The park is home to Dublin Zoo, the American Ambassador and the Irish president, Mr Micheal D. Higgins.

He's so cute!

It is also a very beautiful place to have lunch as we discovered! We sat in the park which surrounds the Wellington Monument and it was so peaceful and we found the most amazing pack of crisps EVER!
These Beauts taste like nothing before them! They are like a party in your mouth. Tayto, you are gods!

Also these crisp making gods have gone and built themselves an amusement park designed around Mr Tayto, their mascot! Check it out here. 

We took some pictures to commemorate our adventure and they turned out kinda pretty, if we do say so ourselves! Take a look for yourselves: 

The Wellington Monument

The green area where we had our picnic

There were lots of people around too!

It was a gorgeous day for Ireland and we sat on our pink picnic blanket sunbathing! Well Johannah sunbathed, Gemma was covered in suncream avoiding the rays as if the devil was after her! Gingers and the sun do not mix! 

After our picnic we went for a wonderful wander (yeh, we use alliteration cause we're fancy!) through the park, we came across the Papal cross, which is were the Pope visited and had some weird kind of festival in the 70's. Kind of like Coachella but with more priests and less visible skin. It was apparently a huge deal back in the day and if you didn't go you were like Justin Beiber, casted out of your own country.

The view from the Papal Cross

 Even if your not very religious, it is still a very pretty place to visit, if you can get past the loud Irish teenagers that seem to like to hang out there. They were trying their best to speak French to some tourists, and by French we mean gibberish. They were kinda hopeless, it was hilarious.

The Papal Cross, tourists included. 

Oh theres also deer! Did we mention deer?? Take a look at their website here if you don't believe how awesome this park truly is.