St. Patrick's Day Parade

We had a difficult night last night. R threw up in his bed at 11pm. E made it to the bathroom around 2, and then they were both up at least three more times each until they got up a little after 7. Luckily they all let me continue to sleep till 10, or I would've been dead. All three of my men are blaming it on lunch at Nardelli's, but it just doesn't compute for me. Nevertheless, they are all extremely wary of returning.

Today we managed to drag the boys out into the beautiful day to watch the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New Haven. We had our chairs and found a great spot in our usual area close to the end of the route. We love this parade and I hated having to miss it when I was sick the year before last. So although the boys wouldn't feel really better until about half way through it, they were glad we went.

We look forward to taking the boys to the parade in Manhattan sometime, but for now ours is just as good and 1/3 as long. Plus we can get there 1/2 hour after it takes off and still get good spots too see it. In New York chairs are useless unless you arrive at least an hour before the thing starts (no matter where on the route you are), so not only will we have to stand, but it will be for about 3 hours instead of 1. However, even if we stay only 1 hour, we'd probably get to see twice as much because there are so many participants. And the bands are much bigger. Ah, that barely touches upon the pros and cons.

I have to say though, that for what you are actually seeing, it's mostly the same. We have our share of weirdness to watch. And from the families with the loud horns, the teenagers who join in to walk with a group they don't belong to, to the adults who stumble along with their paper bags, the spectators are exactly the same.

The only thing B and I really miss is cheering for the sanitation guys that follow the horses.