Crashing the St. Patty's Day Parade

This post is a few days late, but I had the best St. Patrick's Day ever. Hands down.

Let's just say that the day started out with me and three friends going to a St. Patrick's Day parade, and ended with Anna and I being in a parade. Holler.

So around noon on St. Patty's Day, a few of us headed to downtown St. Paul to check out the parade action. The parade action turned out to be people carrying banners that said family names like, "Mulligan," or something, with individuals dressed in green following behind. It was totally lame so we lasted like 10 minutes before heading to the nearest Irish pub. While drinking green beer at the pub, we discovered that Minneapolis was having a parade at 6:00 p.m. That's when Ana came up with the brilliant idea to crash the parade. Hey, if it was as lame as the St. Paul one, all we'd need to do to be in it was dress in green and sneak our way into an unsuspecting group. Armed with our idea, we headed back to Minneapolis to get more decked out in green and find the parade's starting point.

A green scarf and some facepaint later, we head to Brit's downtown to grab a few drinks and conspire. A half-hour before the parade we made our way down to its starting point, and nonchalantly began mingling with people, grabbing some of the free food and and a bud light at the bar.

Soon, Anna and I spotted our perfect crashing opportunity. We snuck into a group that was simply wearing green and singing some Irish song. We even got someone to give us one of the flags they were waving. So, waving our flags and lip-syncing the unfamiliar song, we paraded down Nicollet Avenue yelling happy St. Patrick's Day. I was laughing so hard I could barely pretend to know the words. At the end of Nicollet Ave., we got a bit bored and decided to duck out. We had left the rest of our group at the parade's start so we headed back that way.

I had never been in a St. Patty's Day parade before Wednesday. Ha, it was such a good time. I guess, on this St. Patrick's Day, I actually had the luck of the Irish.