St. Patrick's Day is always a big day for American university students. It usually consists of wearing green of some sort and drinking beer. Lots of beer. Specifically green beer. This year I had the opportunity to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in the land where it came from: Ireland.
I was in Dublin for the whole celebration weekend, Friday until Monday. This is a glimpse at what it was like.
I went with two other American women and we arrived Friday evening into Dublin and it took us about two hours to get from the airport to our bed and breakfast. Needless to say, we were pretty wiped.
Saturday I woke up to a full Irish breakfast. This consists of: two pieces of bacon, two sausage links, one egg, one tomato, toast, tea, coffee or juice. After eating it for three days in a row, I can't imagine eating it all the time.
It was good though, so I recommend trying it. Saturday, the actual St. Patrick's Day, was the big parade day. We arrived into the city centre and claimed our spot by 10 a.m. The parade was scheduled to begin at noon. If you want a good spot right along the railing to get great photos, I would get there early.
The parade started about an hour late and let me tell you, it was an interesting one. I felt like it was Mardi Gras or something. The theme was science and they would have questions such as "Why do we dream?"
It was a very colorful parade with interesting costumes such as people with giant fish heads holding meat cleavers or a float with an elephant sitting in a chair. The interesting thing about the parade that I was not expecting was how much involvement Americans have in it. There were many American bands that played in between the science questions. One of them was even Notre Dame.
I just expected it to involve more Irish than it did so that was a bit disappointing. No offense to my fellow Americans but I didn't exactly go to Ireland to see them. Even when I was in line at the store, a man in front of me was from Marion, Ind.
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