St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

As most of you know, whenever St. Patrick's Day falls on a weekday, Chicago celebrates the weekend prior. So the big celebration was on Saturday. This Irish lass did not disappoint. I started the day with a bloody mary at my friend Janet's. We then went to O'Leary's for a private breakfast party. Complete with dressed up hosts, a breakfast buffet, a band, and Guinness already on tap. Yep, I was on my 2nd Guinness when the clock struck 9am.


Around 10:30am we then wandered outside to see where the day would take us. It was a rather cold, dreary, and misty day, so we decided to skip the river dying and found us another cozy pub. We sidled up to the bar at Pepper Cannister and were greeted by Ivan, the Irish bartender and Tony, the Australian at the bar. We almost walked out when I received my Guinness, because 1) they were only serving in plastic cups (the horror) and 2) it was served in a Bud Light cup. Please. I had words with Ivan. And he grudgingly obliged to pour it into a different non-Bud Light cup. All was right in the world again.


As late afternoon rolled around, we found our way closer to home at The Fieldhouse. We caught up with most of the crew from the breakfast party and enjoyed swapping stories from the day. But as the clock approached 6pm, it was time to tap out. So I was back home and in bed about 6:15pm.

Such a wonderful day.


So I had two casualties from the day.
1. I dropped my camera for the last time around 8am and it busted. I had saved all the pictures that were on it, so that camera found it's way to the garbage. I'm now on the hunt for a new camera - yipee!
I have to wait to get photos from Janet before I can post them - so come back in a week or so!
2. I had painted my fingernails green and put rhinestones on them. I made the mistake to do my nails that morning during the bloody mary, and unfortunately, the rhinestones would not stick. We had a good laugh throughout the day as I would realize I had lost another 1 or 2 rhinestones. It's the little things.


When yesterday rolled around, I still had no set plans for celebrating, but that quickly changed. Around 4:30 I opened my last bottle of Guinness 250. I had saved one bottle just for St. Patrick's Day, and it did not disappoint.


From there, I met up with some friends for dinner and then when they had to go to their bowling league, I decided to go along as a spectator. Well, the league needed subs, so a couple of us filled in and had a wonderful time celebrating the holiday with old and new friends. Awesome.

I hope you were all able to celebrate with family and friends!