In what has quickly become a Poelker family tradition, we
celebrate St. Patrick’s Day on the Saturday before. The city of St. Louis holds their downtown
parade and with work and school schedules and all the kiddos, this date just
seems to work best for us. We all meet
at mom and dad’s (who don’t actually go to the parade) and caravan down to
Market street.
For the past 4 years, we’ve
found a great parking lot not too far from the parade route. We set up camp in front of Union Station…which
blocks that crazy city wind. If the luck
of the Irish is with us, we can get in and out of Union Station for bathroom
breaks.
We are positioned one block from
Maggie O’s. We figured that out this
year as it became the spot to go buy beer when we realized we didn’t bring
enough with us.
The kids have a blast, but really, this day is for us adults. It’s great we go to a parade so we can mask our
Irish drinking abilities as a kid friendly activity.
I look forward to St. Patrick’s day every year. Mainly, it marks the beginning of
Spring! Sure, we still get some cold
weather afterwards, but I feel like we can finally shake off the winter blues
and head into the happier and hopefully warmer spring days.
May the Luck of the Irish be with all of us this year!
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