St. Patrick's Day: A Retrospective 2006

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I started seriously celebrating St. Patrick's Day in college, and it soon became one of my favorite holidays. There was some tough going at the beginning. The holiday often fell during my college's spring break, which meant that I celebrated 1999 in London and 2000 in Prague, two places which are not known for their raucous St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Then, in 2001, right before leaving for Spring Break in Miami, my roommate Janice and I were robbed in our dorm room on St. Patrick's Day. I actually walked in on the thief as he was about to get Janice's wallet!

So St. Patrick's Day was off to a rough start, but I persevered, and four years ago, I started engaging in the all-day drinking version of celebrating. More importantly, I started taking pictures of the big day.

Shamrock Street Festival in the Ballston area of Arlington, Virginia, 2002

St. Patrick's Day Bar Crawl in DC (photo at James Mackey's Pub), 2003

The Leprechaun Lap in DC (photo at Sign of the Whale), 2004

Brooke and I took off from work for St. Pat's in D.C.
photo at Lulu's Mardi Gras, 2005

Sadly, this year I'm a first year in law school and studying constantly.