Well, strike the last post about spring. Its been snowing here since early morning. Yes, its accumulating, and the roads look to be a bit slippery. So, guess we’ll have to wait a few more days to clear out the flowerbeds and start parking on the street again.
Even though today is technically St. Patrick’s Day, we already did our celebrating so are back in the same old routine for the week. On Saturday, we got up early and went to St. Paul in time for the parade. It was a pretty neat thing to see. For anyone who hasn’t been there, it is mostly Irish families who all get together and march down one of the main roads in downtown St. Paul. It was pretty fun to watch. Lots of happy people and shouting, and plenty of adorable dogs. After the parade, we met up with Dustin and Sarah and some other friends from Aberdeen. We headed to a bar, Alary’s. Alary’s always has a big to-do for St. Pats. They’ve got a tent set out in their parking lot, girls in skimpy clothing, and a whole line of porta-potties behind the bar. No green beer out there, but Bud Light in green bottles, so it pretty much counted. We stayed at Alary’s long enough to meet up with Todd and Jamie, who showed up after awhile, and Anthony and Katie, who showed up a little bit later.
Most of the others wanted to head back home, so Anthony and Katie and the Kollmans left Alary’s and headed to some other bars in St. Paul. We bar-hopped for a few hours, ended up eating at a Mexican place, and finally called it a night around 8 pm or so. We had a fantastic time! The bars in downtown St. Paul are absolutely packed on St. Pats. We had to wrangle for tables and stand in line for a long time to do things like buy beer and go to the bathroom. However, the atmosphere totally makes up for it. So many people, all in such good spirits, makes being in that type of environment a really fun way to spend the day. There’s just something about being in a huge crowd of people that makes for a fun afternoon/evening.
Sunday, we drove up to Todd and Jamie’s place in Hugo. We watched a movie and just generally enjoyed hanging out with friends. We heard the food that they made was really good (cornbeefhash and chickenwings) but since neither of us eat meat we’ll have to take everyone else’s word for it! We had some snacky foods and really enjoyed seeing everyone, especially Dan and Theresa, whom we haven’t seen since their wedding. All in all, it was a pretty good weekend.
Check out our St. Pat’s photos in the photo album!
