Kelly and I found a really cool vintage print from a travel book printed in 1933 featuring Dun Aengus – the place where I proposed to Kelly on one of the Aran Islands off the coast Ireland.
The Strange Forts of Aran
We hope to have it framed soon. We found it on an eBay store called Simple Gifts, which features a ton of vintage magazine and book prints. Check it out!
Sean and I spent the most amazing ten days in IRELAND. I’ve never been so speechless in my life – the views, scenery, amazing people, and constant smell of peat is all breathtaking. I finally understand why Sean has a slight obsession with this country 
. We started in Shannon, drove to Dublin, then drove through Kilkenny, the Wicklow Mountains, Waterford, Killarney National Park, the Ring of Kerry, the Skellig Islands, Dingle Peninsula, Limerick, and finally the Aran Islands and Galway. Whirlwind trip of a lifetime.
At the Guinness Storehouse
Oh, and did I mention he proposed?!
I think by now everyone has seen pictures and heard a zillion stories from our trip, but I’ll include a few anyway.
Gendalough
Ross Castle
Ladies View
Skellig Michael
Sheep!
"Hi, I have an engagement ring in my pocket"
Dun Aengus
The ring
Galway Bay
Just went on the trip of a lifetime – a ten day long tour of Ireland with the love of my life… and came back engaged!
It was on the second to last full day of our trip when I proposed. We had taken a boat out Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, and biked our way out to the “Man of Aran Cottage” where we stayed for the night. Man of Aran is modeled after the old fashioned thatched roof cottages that were once common in Ireland, but was actually built in the 1930’s for the documentary “Man of Aran“.
Man of Aran Cottage
Our view from the cottage
Enjoying some wine at the cottage
Dinner at Joe Watty's Pub
After dinner we started walking up to Dun Aengus, an ancient fort built around 900BC alongside 300 foot high cliffs... and where I proposed.
Kelly at the 300ft high cliffs at Dun Aengus
Scaring the living sh*t out of me
Just before proposing
An areal view of Dun Aengus
After we got back I did some reading about the place and learned that the name Dun Aengus translates to Fort of Aengus. Aeungus was the pre-Christian god of love, youth and poetic inspiration. The myth says he had four birds flying about his head, which supposedly is where the xxxx’s symbolizing kisses at the end of love letters come from. Cool!
Couldn’t be happier!
