St. Patrick’s Day Festival week

Ireland celebrates St. Patrick’s day for a week. They have various events going on all week long. We went to a few of them. We saw an old Disney movie called Darby O’Gill and the little people. The director was actually at the screening and gave a speech about the movie before it began. When it first came out in Ireland a lot of people were upset with some of the stereotypes displayed in the movie of Irish people. Apparently the chef justice of Ireland picketed the movie when it first came out because of the stereotyping. It was a great movie though. It starred a young Sean Connery, before he developed his strange way of speaking.

We also went to the parade on St. Patrick’s day. It was ridiculously busy. People were climbing on statues and sitting on street signs and lamp post in order to see the parade. We didn’t get there early enough so we had a hard time seeing anything, but what we did see was strange…one of there floats was a bunch of washing machines.
We also went to the Fair and went on the giant Ferris wheel. We got a great view of the city. It was a lot of fun.