President Obama and family visited his newly confirmed ancestral home of Ireland on Monday. He spoke to some 30,000 cheering citizens of Dublin, telling them he'd come "to find the apostrophe that we lost somewhere along the way." Earlier he's visited the village of Moneygall, where his mother's great-great grandfather was born. He saw the house where he lived, and which he left to come to America.
President Obama also visited a pub and drank a draft Guinness stout. "Obama downed the thick beer in only four slurps. Christy O'Sullivan, a government clerical worker who took a long lunch break to watch the Obama's trip to Moneygall, told the AP: "The president actually killed his pint! He gets my vote. He's the first president I've actually seen drink the black stuff like he's not ashamed of something."
But while in Ireland President Obama kept in touch with the news from Joplin, Missouri, and directed the FEMA director to be on the scene.
Then the Obamas flew to London a little earlier than planned, to avoid plumes of vocanic ash drifting into British air space from the Iceland eruption. They will stay at Buckingham Palace, and serious talks with UK leaders will be included along with the pomp and circumstances in subsequent days.
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