We survived another St. Patrick’s Day in Ocean View and had a blast doing so.  We could NOT have asked for better weather for the day - 66 and sunny all day!  We got down to the parade to kick things off pretty early and met up with some friends to tailgate, cracking our first beers for the day around 10am.  We also had a jug of pre-made “red-headed slut” shots to enjoy in between beers during the parade.  We hung out at a friend’s house for a bit after the parade chit-chatting and drinking beers, before heading to our hotel to drop stuff off and check in.  From there, we walked down to Dena’s daughter’s house.  Cristin was having a party complete with kegs, jell-o shooters and FOOD!

After a few more beers and several rounds of jello-shooters, we picked up Dena and Heidi and started the trek down to Greenies for more beer and partying.  Greenies was BEYOND packed this year.  It was CRAZY!  Complete madness and awesome at the same time!

Did I mention how GORGEOUS it was outside?  We could not get enough of it!  We hung out at Greenies for a bit, then made the next trek from Greenies to The Thirsty Camel!  Personally, this is my favorite place to go on this particular day.  I always have the most fun here.

This is where my brother met up with us and the insanity set in.  Billy quickly did a large quantity of shots to “catch up” to us and then had us all laughing our asses off.  This is also where I met up with the Sheriff’s Deputy that was on duty last year and TOTALLY remembered me!  Dena and I spent about an hour hanging out with him in his corner between the bar and the entrance to the outdoor tented area.  We proceeded to ask every person that walked through that doorway to see their ID and told them we needed to pat them down.  They looked at us with beers in our hands and looked at him and he said “you better let them do it if you want to get in…” - AWESOME!  Then he left us for a while to take care of things on our own.  I was DYING.

One of the people that we frisked coming in the door was a woman with Downs Syndrome… who was DRINKING HER ASS OFF.  I was shocked - and I was DRUNK.  Completely shocked… but not as shocked as this:

When my brother challenged her to a dance off.  I AM DEAD SERIOUS.  Who the hell does that????  I mean a circle formed around them and they kept taking turns popping and locking and break dancing, then high-fiving each other.  I was peeing my pants I was laughing so damn hard!

After The Thirsty Camel, we headed to another bar called Captain Ron’s to see a friend of our’s band play.  Nadine, Big Kev and Billy played some darts - very emotional darts.

We did A LOT of dancing… a lot more drinking and then my brother took it to the next level…

We had so much fun.  By the end of the night, my cheeks hurt so bad from laughing it was giving me a headache.  We got back to the hotel around 12:30.  WE MADE IT PAST MIDNIGHT!!!  We were so damn proud of that fact.  Somehow, I got up the next morning at 6am with ZERO hangover, showered, met up with the clan and we all headed to breakfast at the Silver Diner.  Another AMAZING year down in Ocean View.  Cannot wait until next year!!!

Here are all the photos from the day: