Dublin Zoo and Temple Bar

After a nice relaxed evening we woke up to a lovely day with thankfully no rain. After the most delicious breakfast at the hotel we headed on a short walk to Dublin Zoo, I felt like a little kid as we got closer to the zoo, I was so excited after not being to a zoo in years and having a love for animals my perfect day was about to begin. 

I do not agree with zoo's where the animals look cooped up, but Dublin zoo is anything but, it is the biggest zoo in Europe and all with in the beautiful grounds of Phoenix Park. 
It was great to see huge enclosures and the animals being looked after very well.It was great to see that some of the animals were even in the same enclosures, such as giraffes, zebras, rhinos and ostriches'.

You can spend hours looking at one enclosure, walking past the rhino's just as we were about to carry on to the next enclosure the rhino's started to fight, it was so interesting noticing the ways they communicate. 

The cutest animals there in my opinion were the penguins and the red pandas. Walking past the Red Panda's you couldn't even notice that the panda was there i just thought it was an empty enclosure, it was so open you wouldn't of imagined that there was an animal even there, it was asleep at first and we caught a glimpse when it was waking up and yawning, the moment it was stretching was a ridiculous amount of cuteness! I wanted to take the ball of fluff home with me.                                                
We headed back to the hotel after the best day at the zoo! To relax before our romantic evening celebrating our 1 year anniversary, we were heading to a beautiful Italian restaurant  which was in Temple Bar. We both got dolled up for the evening, we decided to walk along the river side to get to Temple Bar. Temple Bar is one of my favourite places I have been, after staying there for my 18th Birthday with my best friend a few years back it was lovely to go back, the atmosphere alone is just worth going for, the buskers playing out in the streets, seeing so many people piling into a pub to listen to the live musicians. We had the most perfect evening. Couldn't believe it was our last night in Dublin, we didn't want it to end.