Saint Paddy's Day!

Green fever, leprachawn leasure...Saint Paddy definitely blessed Ireland with a uncanning merry attitude and contagious joy. This fact was evident as we disembarced the ferry from Scotland. Lost in freeway web of Belfast, Northern Ireland, we stopped for help..."Excuse me sir, we're lost..."...to which the jolly gentleman immediatly responsed, "you're not L0ST, you're in IRELAND!"...brought smiles to our worrisome faces. Once on track, it was a quick 3 hours to Dublin through the Irish 'brilliant' green mellows and prairies. We stayed at a 'lovely' bed & breakfast in a suburb of Dublin called Howth. It was a charming town really on the edge of the water isolated from the city by it narrow peninsula; however, we opted to swing through Dublin for the festivities. It was shear pandimoniom...green everywhere...people had costumes and a variety of props...I even saw a guy with large inflatable hammer that read "It's St. Paddy's Day...Get hammered!" that was nailing everyone on the head. Others would paint shamrocks and Guiness beers mugs on your face for free. Through this madness we all lasted for 4 hours when Tia Susana and Mami returned. Camila and I lasred the rest of the night until that last bus left for Howth. I met many people from around the world including Australians, French, Spanish, Polish, American, Italian and Irish. It was amazingly a fun time all around with now foul encounters or beligerent behavior common with people and alcohol in large quantity. I even had to borrow an extra couple Euros from some locals to cover our bus fare!!! ;)