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St Patricks Day in the City
Mar. 17th, 2016 10:11 pmTo be honest, I'd forgotten it was St. Patrick's Day until I came out of the subway at 42nd Street and marched up Fifth..and ran into all sorts of street barriers, police cars, and police vans, with their blinking lights. I thought to myself, okay, what's going on? Is it a movie? Is the President here again? Ohhhh...it's St. Patrick's Day Parade.
My walk at lunch to obtain a green juice (parsley, kale, lemon, ginger, cucumber, and green apple) was an adventure. Apparently they were lining up the Parade participants on 44th between Park and 5th Avenue. We're in between, on Madison. So, we had to convince the cops, who'd barricaded off the sidewalks on 44th street to let us by in order to purchase items from the establishments on that street.
Got a nifty picture of them lining up below:
It's a picture of the bagpipe band. They also had an accordion band. And we heard it from our offices, a block away. My cubicle mate said that it sounded a like a football game. It was loud.
We missed Jamaica, where we were away from it all...now, alas, we're in the thick of it. NYC has a million parades, and a lot of them march down 5th Avenue.
Wasn't as much an adventure getting home as we'd expected -- at this point the parade had moseyed to the North, 78th Street, where it ends. But lots of tourists in crazy green outfits, drunk, and wandering aimlessly around the sidewalks. Trains were relatively empty though -- due to the fact that most of the people who travel at 4pm are college kids, high school kids, grade school kids, their parents, and various teachers...when school is out or they've found some other activity to keep them late, the trains are relatively empty. Also, they were providing more trains...so there was that.
My walk at lunch to obtain a green juice (parsley, kale, lemon, ginger, cucumber, and green apple) was an adventure. Apparently they were lining up the Parade participants on 44th between Park and 5th Avenue. We're in between, on Madison. So, we had to convince the cops, who'd barricaded off the sidewalks on 44th street to let us by in order to purchase items from the establishments on that street.
Got a nifty picture of them lining up below:
It's a picture of the bagpipe band. They also had an accordion band. And we heard it from our offices, a block away. My cubicle mate said that it sounded a like a football game. It was loud.
We missed Jamaica, where we were away from it all...now, alas, we're in the thick of it. NYC has a million parades, and a lot of them march down 5th Avenue.
Wasn't as much an adventure getting home as we'd expected -- at this point the parade had moseyed to the North, 78th Street, where it ends. But lots of tourists in crazy green outfits, drunk, and wandering aimlessly around the sidewalks. Trains were relatively empty though -- due to the fact that most of the people who travel at 4pm are college kids, high school kids, grade school kids, their parents, and various teachers...when school is out or they've found some other activity to keep them late, the trains are relatively empty. Also, they were providing more trains...so there was that.