Happy St. Patrick's Day! This holiday is one of the most lighthearted to me, it is about fun and parades, welcoming the spring season and corned beef and cabbage of course. St. Pat's Day is never the same temperature-wise, say as the 4th of July or Christmas. You just never know what you are going to get. I spent my high-school years in a suburb of Chicago and I can remember several things about St. Patrick's Day. The Chicago River being dyed a brilliant green, the most fun St. Pat's Day parade EVER, smiling that green teeth beer smile, and never going to school on that day. Never. Some years the weather was Chicago chilly and that meant bundling up. And on some years you didn't have to fess up to your folks that you ditched school for the parade and fun downtown because the sunburn spoke volumes! St. Patrick's Day always makes me feel 'young'!
This year in St. Louis is one of those cold, gray icky days that make you wonder if last weeks spring tease was just a cruel joke! Today the temperature might not get much higher than the mid forties and there are (of all things) snow flakes falling. MUCH worse weather looms for the eastern seaboard so I guess we can't complain.
Have a great St. Patrick's Day! If you aren't making corned beef and cabbage it is easy to find it around town. One of our favorite haunts for this Irish Delicacy is John Goodman's place, O'Leary's, in Sunset Hills, gotta' start with the best fried pickles in town! And you can't go wrong with Seamus's in Dogtown and right off the parade route. Sadly, we won't be eating outside there this year!
We're in the midst of engagement photos today, blustery in the park for sure! Whatever you are doing, enjoy your day and Erin Go Bragh!!!!!!
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