St. Patrick’s Day does not slip by un-noticed in Charleston. Savannah may get the big publicity, but the Holy City put on a pretty good show yesterday. Our friends, the Peels, were here for the weekend and the four of us did our part to celebrate the Irish saint in royal green style. We got a good head start and warm up on Friday afternoon at Holy City Brewing Company followed by dinner at Hank’s and a rollicking good time Tommy Condons Irish Pub. Nobody likes Irish music and dancing better than Carolyn, and no-one was disappointed. Saturday’s parade was a big green explosion, complete with everything parades should have…..music, floats and dancers. And, plenty of bagpipes and kilts. Don’t you just love a man in a kilt? We sat on the Library Society steps for a perfect vantage point. The day just got better….milling around, taking in a few galleries and lunch at Fuel (super place in an old gas station). We managed to slip in a beautiful drive out to a couple of antique shops in West Ashley were everyone found something they couldn’t live without. A late afternoon wind-down on the porch at 124 Wentworth was a short reprieve, before heading out to follow the sounds of bagpipes from pub to pub. We held our own with the best of them and raised our glasses for a final toast well before midnight.
Woody enjoyed spending time with old friends and familiar faces. An A+ weekend!
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