Parading as though Irish

I'm not Irish, but I have a friend named Patrick, and that was reason enough for us to check out the festivities downtown. None of us knew what really happened during a St. Patrick's parade - we guessed there would be a lot of bagpipes and people dressed in green, several folks starting their Guinness marathons at 10 a.m., etc., but otherwise, no clue - but we were fully prepared to get into it.

Bagpipes, check.

 

The Red Hat Society, unexpected. Maybe those ladies are Irish?

 

A Sara Lee truck that chucks packages of bagels at the crowd - that was fun. I guess you can use them for your corned beef bagel sandwiches.

 

Tons of lads and lasses - of course.

 

Irish setters - why didn't we think of that one? Of course!

Awkward Irish hugs mid-parade.

Sidenote: there's a movie being filmed in Spokane right now (starring Christian Slater), and the parade was used for a chase scene of sorts - you can see the camera right above the little car.


After a full early-afternoon of cheering at cars, catching bagels, making appearances in movies, and pretending to be pure-blooded Irish kids, we had a craving for the Guinness. We could TOTALLY pass off as being Irish.