St. Patrick's Day Parade

Even in Japan, we celebrate St. Pattys Day with parades and the party starts early, as in today. It's Sunday and there are parades going on all over Tokyo and other cities. We took Jimmy and Claudia to Harajuku park and to see the shrine. It was very fun and we also got to see a wedding processional. There is the bride.

The shrine is adjacent to this huge park called Yoyogi park, which is beautiful and has lots of room for anything you want to do. They even had a dog park! While at the park, we got to see the dancing Elvises! They are a group of people that dress up in 50s attire and dance right as you enter the park. Mike had told me about it, but I had never seen them. Here are some of their moves.



Even the girls got down!

On our way out, we saw a monkey on a leash!


Next we went to the St. Patty's day parade, which was really cool. We had drinks in hand and saw all the Irish people in Japan. There were some random things in the parade, but all in all, it was fun. Here is the start of the parade

And St. Patick, himself

The Tokyo Irish Setters Group also came along

And then these huge dogs

And no parade is complete without a leprechaun, whose hat is too big

And they couldn't forget the Guinness

Mike and Jimmy with Guinness

And the Knights, followed by...

When the jester sang for the king and queen...Oh, and while the king was looking down, The jester stole his thorny crown


After the parade, we had sushi and then went to the bar to celebrate some more!