Friday 15 March 2013

Got Green? blog o'Hop 2.0 - I'm just in time!


It's 11:41pm here in Western Australia, so I'm just in time to participate in Mark Koopmans's fun Oirish-themed blog (o')hop mach ii.

First off, I'll link back to last year's entry, where I talked about how I'd never visited Ireland before but would soon be in that very country. I later followed up with a description of what Ireland was like in comparison to what I'd expected (at Mark's suggestion). Turns out I actually had visited Ireland prior to 2012, back in 1980 as a ten-week-old baby. But I have much clearer memories of 2012's visit. hehe. My mum did tell me that I fell off a table somewhere at ten weeks old, though. No wonder I turned out so weird!

Now I have ten minutes of March 15th left, so I better get on with today's entry! I wanted to mention that in Australia, St Paddy's Day is a fairly huge deal. We throw big parties over here and there is a lot of drinking and obnoxious behaviour (so very Aussie of us). Australia also has a big Irish population, with more and more immigrating every year. So those guys are out in full force on their national day. So, yeah, it's a big party night here...which may explain why I'll be happy as a pig in mud on Sunday night, at home alone. :)

Happy St Paddy's Day for Sunday everyone!! And now that there are nine minutes left of March 15th, I'm off to brush my teeth and get some sleep!

9 comments:

  1. Australia doesn't have the market cornered on drinking and obnoxious behavior...we have plenty of that going on in America, too.

    Happy St. Patrick's Day! :)

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  2. I imagine you don't remember anything from your first visit! I went into Mexico when I was a baby, but I didn't claim it until we took a cruise there several years ago.

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  3. I'm always thinking about what other countries do during certain holidays! Was cool reading a little about the Aussie version of Paddy's Day. As Mark mentioned above, sounds pretty similar to what we do here in the States. :)

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  4. There's a lot of partying here in the States, too, but I've never celebrated (shsh, I'm Scottish and czech).

    I liked reading about your trip to Ireland. What fun!

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  5. I'm with EJ~ it was cool to hear what another country does to celebrate St. Patrick's Day! I grew up in Chicago, where they dye the river green, but there's not much festive activity around small-town Colorado :)

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  6. Loved hearing about both your trips to Ireland, someday I hope to travel there too. I'm thinking Aussies don't need much incentive to play and party :) Can't go wrong there.

    ....dhole

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  7. Hey, maybe falling off an Irish table is lucky in some way. You never know. :P

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  8. *raises a pint of Guinness*

    Happy St. Patrick's Day to ya! :)

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  9. Australia and America must be like mortifying cousins for the Brits...the kind who drink too much and talk too loud...but they have to cringingly admit we share a heritage.

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