Happy St. Patrick’s Day
 The Shamrock Maria made for Kai to wear to school on St Patrick’s Day
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I’m not sure what the required waiting period is on recycling blog content, but I’m going to guess it’s about 5 years. That means I can re-post this picture from 5 years ago. Maria made this paper shamrock for Kai to wear to pre-school in 2004, right after he turned 3. It’s hard to believe he’s 8 now.
Kai and I spent last weekend in Newport, for my father’s 70th birthday. While driving around on Saturday I had to dig deep into my memories of Newport’s back streets, to avoid the all-day drunken revelry that spills out onto the main streets, both preceding and following the St. Patrick’s Day parade. Kai and I barely escaped from the Dunkin’ Donuts on Broadway at 9AM, as it was already crowded with sailors looking for girls, and girls advertising themselves in outfits such as “Erin Go Braless” green t-shirts. I have to say I don’t remember girls acting like that when I was younger (and there’s no surer sign of my age than my making that statement: “Kids today! When I was a boy…”).
Anyway, we had a fun get together with the extended family for brunch to celebrate my Dad’s birthday. I’m glad we made the trip.
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from wikipedia:
“Newport was also a major center of pirate activity during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. So many pirates used Newport as their base of operations that the London Board of Trade made an official complaint to the English government.”