Saint Patrick's Day

I just love St. Patrick's Day!  It's spring and everyone is wearing my favorite color!  It is uniting to walk down the street and see all the strangers of my city dressed in shades of the same color.
We spent the first part of the day relaxing.  When Baby J woke up we put him in bed between us and he drifted back to sleep, so we had a family sleep in!  It's so cozy being together and when I woke up for the second time that morning I was smiling.  
After lunch we wanted to get outside and enjoy the amazing (80 degrees & sunny) weather!  We drove to downtown Augusta and noticed that it was busier than normal.  As we strolled down the sidewalk we passed many green-beer-drinking folk enjoying their day off work/school, but we would also occasionally pass a child whose face was painted or who was holding a shamrock balloon.  Neither of us were aware of anything special going on in the city (guess we should watch the nightly news or read the newspaper more often), but apparently Augusta likes to celebrate St. Patrick's Day!

The Augusta Commons is a large area of grass that sits between the buildings of Broad Street.  It was transformed with vendors, a stage, and inflatable games.  It was a mini-fair and being a total surprise to us made it extra exciting!  After exploring the festivities, we took our shoes off and relaxed on the grass.

There was a clogging/tap dance performance that was really fun to watch.  The littlest performers were adorable and the older ones were quite talented.  Made me want to tap too!











On Thursday nights we meet with our small group from the church we have started attending here.  There are 7 young married couples that get together once a week.  It's a great little group of people.  Being that our meeting night fell on a holiday, we celebrated by having a shmorgishborg of green food and drinks.  Green cheese, green dips, green cupcakes, shamrock cookies, green mint candy, green lemonade.