St. Patrick's Day is coming up. Such a fun day. Between both of us, Matt and I are only 1/8 Irish. But add an apostrophe to our name--O'vios---and suddenly we are speaking in brogue. Nearby Bremerton had a parade and we had to go. While it was a little underwhelming, the Irish spirit was in evidence despite the umbrella weather.
The bagpipe band was the highlight of the parade.
The requisite leprechaun look-a-like.
We liked that all these girls wore their green.
Spectators were invited to join the parade. We declined, preferring to take pictures instead. That was until we discovered there was really nothing else to photograph. Nevertheless, who doesn't love a parade?
We carried through with a home-cooked Irish-themed dinner. We experimented with traditional Irish soda bread recipe using only flour, baking soda, salt, buttermilk, and caraway seeds.
This is before baking.
The finished product.
We thought the traditional recipe resulted in something more like a cracker than a bread. But it seemed very authentic!
The Irish stew that Matt cooked up was excellent. And pretty, too.
Dessert was Guinness-infused chocolate pudding. Very tasty. And it's good for you!
Erin go bragh!
