St. Patty's Day Weekend

I want to start off by saying that I love St. Patrick's Day and I don't know why.  Maybe because it is an excuse to drink I don't know.  Ha!  I will say that I have some traditions with the day.  First is to go downtown and go for a walk on the canal because they dye it green.  Although this year I didn't make it down there because it was too cold for Caedmon and because we had to go pick up Caedmon from his grandparents house.  More on that in a bit.

The other tradition is to go get a shamrock shake from McDonald's.  I have always loved the shamrocks shakes and remember getting them with my parents when I lived at home back in the day.  Well now the shakes have become an inside joke with Caedmon's uncle Brandon and I.  It was a couple years ago when Brandon was staying at our house for the weekend.  Somehow in conversation Brandon mentioned he never had one before.  So of course we all must go get one.  Well we started out by going to the nearest McDonald's down the street and of course they were out.  Then if memory serves we went to 2 more McDonald's on our way to Plainfield to hang out with friends.  And one was out and another the shake machine was broken.  So we get all the way to a McDonald's in Plainfield to finally enjoy our shamrock shake.  And Brandon takes his first sip and is like, "are you kidding me?  We drove all around to get this?  They have this at Steak N' Shake?"  So now every St. Patty's Day if I am with Brandon we have to get shamrock shakes together in memory of driving around looking for the shake.  All of a sudden this reminds me of Harold and Kumar go to White Castle to get sliders.  How about Kim and Brandon go to McDonald's to get Shamrock shakes?  

So this year I had the pleasure of getting a shamrock shake with Brandon again.  In fact he drove us in his new car that he just got that same week.  Well we lucked out and the first McDonald's we went to had the shakes but they forgot to give us straws.  Ha!  

The shakes!

I guess I have a couple more traditions to add.  Tyson wears a green bandana on the day every year.  And have to have this green shot that Tanner came up with one year.  I am calling it the St. Patrick's Day shot.  It is made out of vodka, blue curacao, and orange juice.

Tyson laying in the camper while we hung out in the garage

Can you tell I am excited about the St. Pat's Day shot?

Okay so now about why we had to pick up Caedmon from his grandparents house.  Tanner and I dropped him off at grandma and grandpa Hatke's on Saturday and Caedmon spent the weekend with them including spending the night.  And we picked him up on Sunday.  So Tanner and I got to have a night together without Caedmon.  We have both have had nights without Caedmon but never together at the same time.  So we were going to go out to this German bar/restaurant with friends but instead just had a bunch of friends over at our house.  We had a really good time.  To make a long story short since this was the first night out together and with friends, lets just say I had one too many of those green shots.  Ha!