Woke up at 1045 when the people said they were going to eat at 11. I went up to matts room and fried up the Puddings. Oh they were so greasy and so good. We all gathered in Hannah’s room for brunch, and matt and i talked in the corner. I got to eat French toast and everything. I wore the cheap Chinese-made leprechaun hat that mom and dad sent, and gave Hannah the clock necklace.
Ross and Paddy had told me to go to the parade early, so we all left at about 1215. We walked down the road, and there were dozens of people buying cheap Chinese made hats and fake beards and so on. We followed the crowd and stood by the tree by the curve of the grand parade. I amused myself by taking pictures of this Garda cop. Kevin had a hat like mine, and they were pleasantly imbibing already. We waited for the parade to start for about 45 minutes. We saw the garda yell at these lads that were climbing on top of the phone booth to get a good view of the parade. We saw this guy with a really broken nose. We saw a girl with a shirt that said kiss me im American. Haha. We saw this creepy guard guy walk back and forth. We saw a stereotypical kid with bad teeth. I was impressed by the amount of black people there, and they were all decked out in irish garb. Same with the other non-irish people. There seemed to be actually quite a bit of dressing up.
So then the parade started. A bunch of motorcycles drove by, and andy did a good job taking a panning shot. The categories of parade events: schools, lots of football schools and chrisitian schools, ethnic ones, bagpipies, and wierd ones. The best one was the giant chicken with people in egg costumes and feathers. We saw a Serbia group, and i thought one of them looked like Grandpa. Wojichech was unfortunately not in the polish group. We all hoped he was. The bagpipers and marching bands were pretty cool. There was a guy with a whip, but he never actually used the thing! There were these grotesque dolls that swooped down in on you, and one almost hit andys camera. The parade had rollerbalders, girl scouts, football players, black people dancing, Indian people dancing, Chinese people waving around a dragon, Asian people dancing, Pacific Islander people dancing, actually everyone was dancing but the boring white people. Each country that has a significant population in cork had a group. The only groups that had kids were the African ones. The European groups like Serbia and Poland and others were barren. I don't think Europeans like to reproduce. The parade got done in an hour, and everyone broke down the barriers and walked away.
Then matt and i went to Scifi. He wasn’t mad at Hannah anymore. I figured this would happen. But they broke the news that they weren’t going to morocco anymore. I figured that would happen too. We got to the boole and saw a sign that said “titan a e in kane g19”. So ross couldn’t get it open. We walked over and saw the stereotypical grungy glassed nerd. He followed us and then said “The name’s Patrick”. I paused for a moment and then introduced myself. Poor guy is probably a freshman with no friends. I was there once. The movie was pretty good, and violent. Still no hoodies.
Billy had his friend sam over and we talked about the MN twins for a while. He said that he watched them play alot, because their farm system is in Rochester ny and he likes the twins. We both shared a mutual hatred of the Yankees, because he is a red sox fan. It was fun to talk to him about baseball.But frickin billy wrecks everything.
