when in Irish...

Today was the day that we were all looking forward to-Saint Patrick's Day!!! We were able to sleep in a little bit, thank god-we were all feeling pretty rough from last night, and when we finally got up, we got all our green gear on and headed out for the day!

The streets were packed with green and beer. I've never seen anything else like it in the world, it was like a the biggest festival i've ever been to, times one million.
After 6 million photo ops, we found somewhere where we could kind of watch the parade and settled in. The parade was really cool with lots of live music and performers, but people watching was the real show.

jerm getting a better view of the parade on alex's shoulders

all of us in city center

erica and I pre-parade. sunglasses=clutch

We watched about an hour of the parade we walked over to Croke park, and by walked i mean the group walked, I hobbled (see below)to watch the Gaelic Games.

my battle wound

It was the all club championship, so the best of the best Hurling and Gaelic football club teams competed for the national championship. This has further emphasized in my mind that Irish sports are far superior to ours. It was a lot of fun, but really cold and we were all tired and hungry, so we left before the Gaelic Football match was over.
gaelic football teams entering the field

chandler & I at the match

Linda (Dr. Ferarra's wife) had a great idea to cook dinner at the hostel, so Chandler and I picked up salad stuff and bread and Linda made a fabulous dinner of spaghetti and tomato sauce.

hey dr. cooper, spaghetti!

the cute couple cooking together

I think we're going to have to have an early-ish night tonight since we had a crazy night last night and have a lot of touring to do tomorrow. Let's see if that really happens though..

ok so we didn't stay in, we went to an out of the way pub called doyle's where we just hung out for a little while. pretty uneventful minus the possible tranny that hit on Erica. HILARIOUS. she's probably scarred for life though, not going to lie.