Though the weather was uncharacteristically cold, the parade remained as festive as ever!
If you missed out this year, you can instead pretend that you fought the traffic, spent a half hour looking for parking,
beat up an elderly person for a prime viewing spot on Bay Street, and shivered in the cold for four hours--with the help of these wonderful photos! ...courtesy of one'a them there new-fangled pi'ture phones.
(PS--You can talk the parking lot attendants down a few bucks, if you try.)
Men in skirts! Kilts and bagpipes are a must at a St. Patrick's
Day celebration!
Amy's friend Shannon, along with
her daughter and nephew, enjoy the marching military.
Bell South has a float...I wonder if they
take payments there.
take payments there.
Another Corvette!
This picture is dedicated to Pat.
This picture is dedicated to Pat.
Children always add to the festive atmosphere...especially when
they're
doing the Irish Jig.
doing the Irish Jig.
The mysterious Green Goat only appears
once a year on St. Patrick's Day.
once a year on St. Patrick's Day.
Savannah Electric needs no introduction...
They're float features Louie the Lightning Bug, along with long lines and random unexplained charges.
They're float features Louie the Lightning Bug, along with long lines and random unexplained charges.
Coastal Chevrolet apparently needs more advertising. I'm
surprised their float isn't more loud and obnoxious.
$$$ HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! $$$
$$$ HURRY! HURRY! HURRY! $$$
Piggly Wiggly!
...funny name, serious grocery shopping.
Another of Savannah's favorite enterprises has a place in the parade as well.
...The pig must be Irish.
...funny name, serious grocery shopping.
Another of Savannah's favorite enterprises has a place in the parade as well.
...The pig must be Irish.
More men in kilts! I bet they're chilly!
Shannon's daughter, Caolainn, poses with the Shillaly.
Primary Art Supply
entertained us with a band
and a singer up in the crows nest.
entertained us with a band
and a singer up in the crows nest.
I think half the people on this float
are hitchhiking.
are hitchhiking.
Amy and her trusty Shillaly!
Carey Hilliards...
Savannah's favorite "Restrint" has a float,
of course.
Savannah's favorite "Restrint" has a float,
of course.
I'd love to drive to work in that thing...
especially if it was entirely made of chocolate!
especially if it was entirely made of chocolate!
B r r r r ...!
I hope they wore their thermal underwear!
I hope they wore their thermal underwear!
...You can tell they're artists because they refuse to wear
anything but black.
Another one...armed with hot pink lipstick!
...the one in back gets clobbered
by a rampant girl!
by a rampant girl!
The men in uniform prepare for attack...!
A mobile hoe-down.
Tradition meets Techno-logee.
Tradition meets Techno-logee.
The men are no match for the wild army of Smoochers. They
stand defeated.
The Kix 96 Radio Channel blasted us away
with a stereo in need of tuning...
Or maybe that's just what the music sounds like.
editors note: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere.
with a stereo in need of tuning...
Or maybe that's just what the music sounds like.
editors note: It's Five O'Clock Somewhere.
This clown looks lost. Her husband, Ronald, has probably
been worried about her.
Here come the Alee Temple Shriners in their speed buggies!!
Even the Shriners can't escape the wild lips
of parade-going women!
of parade-going women!
The Irishmen are coming out of the woodworks for this year's
parade!
Out of gas!
This one needed a tow.
This one needed a tow.
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom!
This has been a
Stafford Family Website report.
Back to you, Jody.
Stafford Family Website report.
Back to you, Jody.
Well, I don't have a good picture to end on,
so I'll just put two more pictures of me,
your host, Amy Stafford.
so I'll just put two more pictures of me,
your host, Amy Stafford.
The colonial soldiers were smarter...
they wore pants!
they wore pants!