Sam and myself started the celebrations on the Friday with a traditional St. Paddy's day pub crawl, which ended up being one of the most fun nights out I've ever had. I was skeptical at first for having to pay for a ticket to essentially follow a group around, yet it included a fair amount of drinks! Our night ranged from traditional pubs and worked their way up to bars with dancefloors. I ran into some friends at the time too! It was such a wonderful night.
Jessica!
Sam and I forever silly
Next on our St. Patrick's Celebrations included the Cork City annual parade. The weather was lovely, which was basically unheard of given the current rainy season. Sean the local butcher told me it was the first rainless St. Patrick's Day in 10 years! After a morning filled with Irish breakfast and us poorly singing traditional music, we headed down to the parade, which drew the biggest crowd I had ever seen in Cork. The food vendors weren't only just random street food vendors, but also from the local restaurants. There was definitely a large authentic feel to this celebration. We had debated to taking a bus up to Dublin for the day to participate in those celebrations, yet we decided not as it was one of the biggest tourist magnets of the year. We definitely enjoyed the authenticity way more.
We all took a long nap after stuffing ourselves with street food and spending the majority of the day in the city centre. We all sat at the kitchen table trying to pump ourselves back up in order to spend the night on the town. It was such a silly situation as were so disoriented from how hard we slept. We later went out to our usual bars and danced the night away. It indeed was a St. Patrick's day to remember.
The best roommates a girl could ask for!
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