Happy St. Patty's Day!

Growing up in Lafayette you never realize how big of a deal St. Patrick's Day is to people!  WOW!!  Up here everyone is all about St. Patrick's Day!!  

We met up with my Uncle Jerry, Aunt Nancy, and cousin Jennifer for part of the day because they were in town to see the celebrations. The day starts off with turning the river green, there's a parade, and a huge drunken fest!  It reminded us of Breakfast Club in a way.  Because we live in bar central basically, there are a ton of people around here today enjoying the festivities.... needless to say, parking is not the best right now! 

So, after we found Jer, Nancy, and Jen we headed down to Nordstroms to do a little prom dress shopping for Jennifer.  It was fun to look at all of the dresses, I haven't done that in a few years!  We then proceeded to lunch.  We went to a place called Ed Debevic's.  It is an old fashioned hamburger place, but it has the theme like a Dick's Last Resort, where the waiters are all rude and super funny!  It was fun!  They gave us paper hats, but they didn't write on them like they do at Dick's.  Then about every 1/2 hour or so the waiters get up on the counter and do a dance, but they really can't dance so they are just up there looking ridiculous!  It was a good time and we got a kick out of it.  The only disappointment was that they didn't have green beer!  So.... we settled for regular old Bud Light in the yellow/brown color it always is.  

Alex posing in front of the newly green river.  

Quick trivia fact: the dye they put in the river is actually orange, but somehow when mixed with the wonderful Chicago water it turns a bright green. 

Crossing the river on Michigan Ave. 

Alex and I at the restaurant with our hats on.  We are also sporting the green beads we caught from people throwing them out of the trollies and busses downtown. 

Jen, Jer, and Nancy with their hats on too.  Jen also caught some beads!

The waiters getting their groove on... 

My parents are supposed to be making their way up here tomorrow morning for the day.  They both caught my cold from last weekend, so hopefully that doesn't keep them in L-town.  I'm sure we will go back downtown and drive to my school to see the construction progress because it has been a while since they have seen it. 

Hope everyone enjoys the holiday!  Don't forget to wear green on Tuesday!

Go Boilers!!