(Happy Saint Patrick’s Day)

Cosc ar bheoir uaine!

(Avoid the green beer)

We went down to the Landmark Center for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration, staying inside and avoiding most of the drunken crowds. We listened to a short concert of songs in both Irish and English by the Giggin’ Siles, an a cappella group of women from Gaeltacht Minnesota (they badly need a web site of their own). Afterwards we wandered around for a bit, saw some singing and dancing, and got a bit of lunch from an Italian place across the plaza–faster and better than the cliché corned beef inside. At 2 PM my shift at GM’s information table began. We were on the main floor, so we got a lot of traffic and some serious inquiries. We went home when my shift finished at 3, avoiding the worst of the drunken crowds.