St Patrick’s Day Costumes
Dressing up in St Patrick’s day costumes and wearing green for St Patrick’s is one of the many traditions, of course there are others to, a lot of people like to eat green food, and for the men, I would guess that their favorite would be drinking the Irish stout Guinness. My friends favorite would be drinking the Irish whisky, although he does this all year round he seems to drink more on St Patrick’s day, he tells me he likes to participate in the celebration. Of course there are other ways to celebrate St Patrick’s day.
People from all over the world like to wear the shamrock, the three leaved plant. This dates back as early as the 17th century. Sometimes I wonder how this celebration has been going for so many years but as each year passes it gets bigger and better all the time. For instance Since 1961, Chicago has dyed its river green for the celebration, that has got to look amazing and is one of the things that I would love to see. In Seattle in 2009 over 20,000 spectators turned out for the celebration of St Patrick’s day and to watch the parade. To be involved in something like that must be amazing to have so much fun and love surrounding you, for me it would be a life time experience to be involved in something so huge.
For a bit of fun one of the traditions is that if a person is not wearing green on St Patrick’s day then you are allowed to pinch them, but it has to be done in an affectionate way. Pinching and affection to me does not go together so make sure on St Patrick’s day to wear something green.
They say that Birmingham holds the largest Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Britain, it is over two miles long and goes right through the city center, and organizers of the event say that it is the third biggest parade in the world after New York and Dublin.
The biggest parade in the world though is the one in New York, they sure know how to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, with over 150,000 marchers including bands, firefighters, military and police groups, and lining the streets watching this parade are over two million people, many wearing St Patrick’s Day costumes, that has got to be worth seeing.
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