St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2007, Des Moines IA 2

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We only saw one bagpipe.  I was dissapointed.  We missed the very beginning which we heard had more.

 Seeing shamrocks

 Pot O Gold

 95 KGGO and guy giving away shirts

Melrose IA, Iowa’s Little Ireland, 1937 basketball champs, no snakes!  They also had a ginormous number of people and vehicles in the parade.

 Melrose fighting Irish

 Melrose Iowa parade unit 3-17.  Law and order runs afoul while the police car is out of town in the parade.

Conway Pallet family

Pot O’ Gold in a wheel barrel

Dogs

 St. Pat was a Democrat

Northern Warren Fire Dept.

Hot chicken.  I don’t see the relevancy, but hey it’s entertaining.

 Shaw Clan, Faith and Courage

The Delaney crew

Candy was left all over the ground.  Since we were at the very beginning of the parade, candy was being dispersed towards us at colossal rates.  The street was saturated with dirty sand from the winter, used for traction on snow and ice.  This made the candy much less enticing.  Kids went home with black hands.  Would it have been impossible for them to have a street sweeper do a pass the day before?

 It’s not fun unless you get to be wild and crazy

The chick in the back of the truck gave me what appears to be a Star Trek hand gesture, then she waved and laughed hysterically.  I didn’t start drinking until after the parade, so I was much more confused than humored by her odd antics.

Most of the adults in the parade were drinking, some more than others.

2007 Irish fashion trends

Greyhounds

 O’Reelitz

 There were way too many filler entries (blatant advertising with no entertainment value) in the parade.  It would have been much better if they would have weeded these out.  After an hour of watching the parade we had enough.  Everyone else had enough also, the crowd thinned to 1/3 the size an hour through it.  Repetition is good for the brain, not for the eyes.

 I strongly suggest they use an application process where they can filter out entries with little to no entertainment value.  Make them compete in front of a small panel of judges who could rate the proposed entries and only a given number of the best would be allowed to proceed.  We want quality, not quantity.