St. Patty's Day

Saturday the St. Patrick’s Day festivities were in full swing here in Chicago which boasts a few different parades as well as the famous dyeing of the river. We went to see the parade which was actually quite boring in my opinion. We went to the one on Columbus which is apparently 3 hours long; there were bands and floats and all but it was also just filled with a lot of people just walking in the parade.

The green Chicago river was quite cool though. Apparently (according to Wikipedia) the river has been dyed green for St. Patrick’s since 1961; sewage workers used to purposely dye the sewage green to check for leaks and discharges and then got the idea to do the whole river as a celebration.

The city was absolutely packed with people all walking around but at least the weather was a really nice 55 degrees and sunny. Division street where we live was of course an absolute circus (see picture of the overflowing bars by our apartment).