St. Patricks Day 2018

A day late post for March 17th, it was a busy day and late night & a day when most of the world seems to be or act Irish.
  We were up early and had a nice facetime with Charlene, Phil & Katie, then phone calls from family members back home.  After we went out to run some errands.  Our first stop was Costco where I needed fuel and Marg needed some last minute things.  I also got a nice bottle of 18 yr old single malt scotch.  Marg picked up a large chocolate cake with shamrocks on it as well as a large basket of strawberries.    Our next stop was Walmart for some snacks, cheese, meat, etc. and ice cream in Dixie cups and most importantly ice [you know for margaritas].
  When we got back to the park she ran around making certain there were going to be people to eat the cake.  Marg and a couple of friends went down to the hall to stake out our place at the tables for the corned beef dinner.  The afternoon was busy with arranging on Marg's part and relaxing on mine.
  Supper was the traditional corned beef and cabbage at the hall.  It is always well attended and is one of the big events provided by the tenants association here in the park.  In order to get 6 seats together one needs to get the seats spoken for early in the afternoon.  We sat with Bingers & Blanke's pretty much the same every year, with the rest of our table made up of 3 other couples.  There are no empty seats, in fact they had to add a couple of tables, probably a combination of:  don't have to cook, it's a festive occasion and it is free.  Anything free in the park usually is very well attended.  The meal ended with the usual ice cream and cream de menthe to top it with something green.
  After the supper we went back to our place to get ready.  It seems Marg had about 30 people coming for snacks, cake and ice cream after.  She made her usual margaritas and I think made the better part of a 1.75 litre bottle of tequila in a variety of flavours in her 2 blenders.  I had out a bit of scotch, but the real hit was the Irish whisky I had.  Again most of that 1.75 litre bottle went with the would be Irish last night. The traditional shot cups came out last night with the Irish whisky after the party got going, which may have had something to do with that.  As usual it gets chilly at night in the desert, so I had out the propane fire pit and it was as popular as anything.  I received lots of cards, many very humorous and from the park managers a plaque with a bird [a loon] and two Canadian coins on it, a loonie & a twoonie.  A years free rent would have been nice, LOL.  We went pretty late [for here] with the last dogs hung a little after 9 o'clock.  I never ask my neighbours about the impact as the ones on the east side of the breezeway retire very early in the evening, so were probably not impressed last night.  It got pretty noisy, but oh well it is one night a year, so it is what it is.  I did notice them sleeping in this AM though.