Well, as you know, St. Patrick's Day was yesterday and boy, does Cedar Rapids know how to celebrate a day. I was asked to march as a Coe student in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Cedar Rapids. This parade is on its 37th year and over 10,000 line the parade route over a mile long to watch all the floats and people walk by. My friends and I walked down to our staging area where we met other Coe students and finished decking ourselves out in green. Around 1:30 PM we started marching and handing out candy to all the kids. It was a lot of fun, although I ran out of candy a little before our route was over.
I finished my St. Patrick's Day by going to a Roughriders game. They were playing a team from Green Bay and it was intense. The score was 3-3 after three periods and then they played five minutes of overtime. No one had scored after that so they went into a shootout. The other team won. But it was okay because the atmosphere and the excitement of the game was worth it.