A CALIFORNIA GIRL IN DUBLIN: St. Patrick's Day

St. Paddy's Day 2010 was definitely a memorable one! We went into town at about 11 am in order to get to the parade. The traffic was so backed up that we got off the bus early and walked the rest of the way. The city centre was packed!! I don't know if I've ever seen that many people at once in one area... it was crazy! We watched the parade which was really impressive, but we only got to see the tall floats and whatnot because of all the people. After the parade it took us almost an hour to walk to Grafton Street (normally 5-10 minutes) because of all the people. At one point we were literally stuck for about ten minutes in the street and no one was moving.

We had lunch before heading to Temple Bar where we spent the remainder of the day. It was crazy there. Sooo many people!! At one point some stranger threw us his keys down from the balcony of his apartment and we went up there which happened to have an amazing view of everything. One of my favorite parts was when a group was marching with drums, they stopped and it was just a huge party in the street (well it was all day anyways, but...) everyone was just dancing so we went down to join. After another beer in a pub nearby we decided to head home to relax a bit before we went out that night. We went to one my favorite clubs and had a great night!

Sporting our tattoos & earrings which were sent to me from Corning from Kristin & Ana... THANK YOU GUYS!!!