The weather stayed nice pretty much the entire time - Only our last day in the city was rainy. On Tuesday we went to Titanic Quarter of Belfast. Near the ship yards where the Titanic was built, this neighborhood has seen some recent development and will be home to pricey condos and hip restaurants in the near future.
Among the construction sites, however, we were able to find some the original dock where the Titanic was built, pictured below.
In the pumphouse next door, we saw the panel that allowed the builders to control the flow of water into the dock.
I found this old fashioned "post-it" note on one of the panels. I couldn't get the lettering to come out very well but it says "Do not turn off".
And later that afternoon, we all headed to the Queen's University area for lunch. It was such a nice day that we opted for a picnic blanket on the grass.
Afterwards, I sat down with my Kindle and caught up on some reading while Jacob and Paul spent the afternoon working on Paul's car, Jacob's mission before we left Belfast.
On Wednesday, we spent the day packing and hanging out at Paul's place before taking the bus down to Dublin and a flight on Ryanair to Paris Beauvais airport. For some reason, we mixed up the flight times and thought that our plane left at 10 PM. We decided that catching the 5PM bus to Dublin would give us plenty of time to get to the airport, get some food and get settled onto the plane. The bus arrived in Dublin without any problems. We arrived at the airport at 7:15.
Once we got our bags checked and our boarding passes printed, Jacob asked the ticketing agent about the food options available behind security. She said that there were some but that she didn't think we would have time. That's when we looked at boarding passes and realized that we were on the 8 PM flight. We ran to security and made it through in ten minutes, even with all of Jacob's electronics. And then we sprinted for the gate, which seemed to be at the farthest point in the airport away from us.
Luckily, we managed to get to the gate just as they had started boarding and were even able to seats together on the plane. The backs of the seats on Ryanair featured their emergency exit protocol. I particularly like the photo on the right of the woman sliding down with her hands crossed over her knees to keep her skirt from flying up....Since modesty is the most important thing in this circumstance. (Click on the photo for a larger resolution pic.)
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