In most places, St Patrick's Day is just that, a day. In Savannah, it is a season. Really! It starts with the Irish Festival the last weekend or so in Feb and runs through the St Patty's Day weekend. There is an event nearly every day during this 3 weeks. This year the parade may have topped over 1.5 million attendees. That would make it the biggest in the world. That is not bad for a city with a population of only 200,000. There are some big lessons to be learned for Savannah this year if they want to keep the parade this big...otherwise they will see a decline in attendance, and that is just fine too.
Our season started with Gabe's parade at Pre-K on Thursday. Even though I am not a fan of all day pre-K and wouldn't do it again, I love his teachers. The kids were adorable.
Rob even had a 4 day weekend and got to attend. I don't have the first picture of him seeing dad, but he was over the moon about it.
This year we went to the main parade in style. Rob and his friend Steve got up at 0 dark 30 and went to a square to secure a place with a tent. We had coolers, chairs, and a place for the kids to chill. Since the parade is well over 4 hours long, the place to chill is critical. We took the shuttle from the mall and then walked the nearly 3/4 of a mile to where Rob and Steve were set up. It was a long walk with all the kids.
We were also close enough to take the kids to Forsyth to play when they got bored of the 4 hour long parade.
