The parade.......

To celebrate St. Patrick's Day today we decided to go into the city and watch the parade. The city was alive with people... and the parade route was a sea of green shirts and trousers. Kids everywhere had their faces painted with green, white, and orange stripes... and it seemed like every kid had at least one overpriced Irish flag. The parade was very festive and a lot of fun... There were bagpipe bands, little kids marching with their local football/hurling teams, and a lot of just funny groups in costumes most of which had nothing to do with St. Patrick. The highlight of the parade for me was its ending. No... There was not a giant fire truck with St. Patrick on it (that was in the middle of the parade)... but there were two large groups dressed in costume. The first group was the brave Irish/Celts and the second group were the dark and evil English - that kept yelling "God save the King" and "For King and country". The parade watchers booed at the very sight of the English... and cheered for the Irish as they had a pretend battle while marching....well that was it... the grand finale............. It was great craic(fun).