Gem and Jo take on Strange Weather

As you might know Gemma is a huge weather freak (she's obsessed..... it's kinda scary!), when we heard that the science gallery in Dublin were having an exhibition about weather we had to check it (Gemma probably would have imploded if we didn't). So this past Thursday we headed into Dublin city to have a look at the exhibit, Strange Weather, (and to have bit of a frolic in general).

The science gallery doesn't open until midday so we decided to head into Dublin a bit earlier and do a bit of Shopping (let's face it, we're girls and given any chance to exchange money for goods and services, we're in there like swimwear).

After a little bit of retail therapy, we headed for lunch in Captain Americas on Grafton Street. This place does super yummy food and cocktails but seen as it was only 1 o'clock (which is before the acceptable time to start drinking) we got ourselves some pizza (which was delicious we might add). *Oh quick side note, if any of you guys are with o2 (The phone network) you can get yourself a 'buy one, get one free' on all main courses so check that out here.

One of the beautiful buildings on the grounds of trinity college.

After we were fed and watered, we went on our merry way towards the Science Gallery. The gallery itself is on the grounds of Trinity college so we got a chance to look at the beautiful architecture that covers the grounds.

We got to the science gallery at a nice time and there wasn't a huge crowd there. By this stage Jo thought Gemma was going to explode with excitement and she wasn't let down.

 The exhibit had loads on offer for both children and adults interested in weather. From weather charts to people making clouds with helium, from  models of the earth and predicted weather cycles to a screen that let you interact with cloud patterns. There was even a place where you see what it's like to be a weather person and read off a teleprompter in front of a green screen. They even film it and put it up on Youtube so you can watch it later. We had so much fun with this and it's way harder than you may think. If you want to see us making complete messes of ourselves you can watch the videos below. 

Gem's Future Forecast

Skip to 0:49 to see Gem utterly confused by words...

Jo's Future Forecast

Unfortunately Youtube hates us and refuses to let us put Jo's video on the blog, so if you want to see Jo's forecast video you're gonna have to do the ole fashioned copy and paste of this link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJZBNo7i-PY

Over all it was a great day and the gallery was well worth it. The exhibit runs until the 5th of October and entry to the science gallery is free so there's no reason not to check it out if you're around Dublin. Check out the Science Gallery's website here for more information. 

Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed. 

Until next time

XO Gem and Jo 

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.

Gem And Jo Take Dublin Zoo

We recently visited Dublin Zoo and let us tell you, it was awesome. It has recently been refurbished and there are way more animals than ever.
Everything from lions...

...to Giraffes... 

...And even this weird looking guy... (Who may or may not be a little depressed)

And if you get there early, you can see the keepers feed the animals, they even give you a five minute gap between feeds so you can run from one enclosure to the other. Literally, you have to run. the zoo is a big place.

Robin the Giraffe, her calf and Keeper. 

We got seriously up close and personal with some gorillas and their keeper told us that they love banana biscuits.

Baby Gorilla 

Sleepy mama gorilla. 

There is also wild peacocks running all over the place, and they're cheeky feckers who like to steal your chips.

Cool fact about peacocks, female ones are called peahens. Bet you didn't know that one.
Apart from the animals there are other cool things to do in the Zoo, there are plenty of playgrounds and there are strange wooden statues of the animals dotted all over the place. We had a bucket load of fun taking pictures with them.

Gemma chilling with some baby piggys and their mama

Johannah reckoned she could take on a gorilla!

This is probably the most fun you could have with a wooden Zebra!

All in All, Dublin Zoo is a great day out. We recommend going early enough on cloudy days if you want to avoid the crowds, also they give discounts to groups and students, which is always a plus!
check them out at: Dublin Zoo.