St. Patty's Day

So I have been MIA, simply because the Toals were here last week and the end of the week was quite busy, but lots of fun. Good ole St Patty's day came and went, literally that quickly. During the day, I took Claudia over to Odaiba to shop, while Jimmy went off to Asakusa to look at more shrines and old Tokyo. As we walked around, no one was wearing green and in the spirit of this day, it would have been a pinching fest, but no, none of us did that.

Many of the bars around town were having celebrations, so we met Mike right near the Dubliner and headed over to have some green beer and food. We finally found all the people wearing green, and what better place to be in than the Irish bar. We had to stand for about 10-15 minutes because there were no tables, but then the men at the table right next to us left, so we were good to go. Claudia and I had green beer, while Jimmy had Guinness and Mike, gin and tonic (his stable drink now since his no beer for lent). We hadn't had dinner, so we all ordered fish and chips for each of us. When we told the waiter we wanted 4 of them, you should have seen his face. It was funny and he was quite surprised and probably thinking "ugh, fat americans." Well we each got our plates and we each ate them, ALL. They only give you 2 pieces of fish and some fries, which is enough, but most japanese share plates.

Anywho, we enjoyed the evening and even had some Irish dancing going on for us. there was a 3 person band playing Irish tunes and their friends would get up and dance. it was good.



We did end the night early simply because by 10 we all looked like we were going to fall asleep. Like I said, it was busy. Here is a group shot of us and yes, Mike is not wearing any green and you can't see the tiny bit of green that Jimmy is wearing.
Hope you all had a good st. patty's day