March 2013 "Spring Fashion Issue"

With St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Sunday night I may be saving my eye openers for the day time events. Most importantly Charlotte’s 16th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade falls on the day before. Surely I will be bellied up some where on the 17th catching a buzz immediately after waking up, but the real shamrocks & shenanigans will be coming out at the parade, one of my favorite days in Charlotte! If you have never been to the St. Patrick’s Day parade, you have neglected the best Saturday afternoon party this city has to offer.

You don’t have to be Irish to enjoy the festivities on this day. But then again if you care not to drink early in the day & cringe at the beautiful sound of bagpipes this may not be the Saturday afternoon for you. My tradition of going to Savannah, GA for St. Patrick’s was replaced by Charlotte’s parade years ago when age and responsibility started to kick in. Both of which will go out the window after my first beer and shot at the start of the parade. I might as well be 19 with a fake ID and no conception of what paying a bill even means. By the end of the parade, my bank account will imaginably have had thousands of dollars deposited as I insist to buy peoples drinks left and right. I may even high five a stranger, attempt to make out with my wife in public and even try a new dance move in the bar….all by two in the afternoon.

Seriously, what other Saturday afternoon in the QC can you get this out of control along with hundreds of people doing the same?

Along with the parade is the worlds’, not the countries’, but world’s largest pub crawl. Rich and Bennett’s 13th Annual Pub Crawl will be adding fuel to this green colored fire on Saturday.

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