St. Patrick's Festival
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Sunday, March 16, 2008 1:06 AM
Jason and I went to the annual Saint Patrick’s Day festival today. It was truly amazing. There was Celtic and bagpipe music every where and it just seemed to seep into my blood. Hearing the music was inspiring and it was easy to get lost in the rhythms and notes. I wish I could explain the feeling better; being surrounded by others who so clearly shared your heritage and love for it. The sea of green and gold, the proud men who wore their kilts. Everywhere we turned there were wee ones running about and their parents called out to them displaying their Irish names: little boys named Riley and Michael and one little girl called Ayden. It was so much more than the American tradition to get pissed on green beer—it was an actual celebration of Saint Patrick’s Day,
But wouldn’t you know it? Not a Guinness in sight…
We managed to find a few treasures amongst the shops (including a brilliant teapot that matches my thrift-store tea cups from last week).
