Are we drunk yet?

For Saint Patrick's Day; Dianne made green humus. It was delicious...and green.

Teacher Steve and Megan were our leaders on the Special Olympics Pub Crawl. Everyone likes drinking to support disabilities.

The problem with the bus version of the pub crawl was that nobody was at any of the bars the bus took us to.

It probably should have been called a pub ride to the bars that no-one will be at instead.

One of the guys on our bus overheard me and Steve (VISTA Steve) talking about accents, or more acurately about fake southern accents.

I think he really wanted to kick our asses, but decided, instead, to refer to us as Catholic-Jews.

His reasoning being that, he claimed, both groups were responsible for killing Jesus.

Normally Saint Patrick's Day falls on or a least is celebrated on the weekend.

It seemed problematic; doing a pub crawl on a Monday night.

I think we did pretty well though.

We managed to drink; green beer, green Jell-o shots and Irish car bombs. We discussed other countries that are popular for car bombs and tried to determine what would be in said beverages.

Surprisingly; I have no idea what this is a picture of. I will note that I walked home and thus had to sprint to my car the next morning in order to get to work on time. Viva Ireland!

There can be only one

Maggie, Ben, Lindsey,Lee Ann, and I went down to Winston, Oregon, for the Highlander Games.

Normally, Winston's mascot is the cheetah, however, for one weekend a year the whole city of Winston worships this cut out of a man lifting a log instead.

I think this one actually IS The Highlander.

Apparently the people at the gate (who subsequently took $8 from each of us) forgot to mention that the fair was mostly over and that the Highland Games had ended several hours ago.

Several drunken men in kilts, decide that even though the games were closed they would still throw the log around.

Surprisingly, this is not the most exciting sport to watch.

This was the Grand Prize trophy.

A list of some of the games we had missed.

I believe this band, as well as all bands performing at the Highlander Festival, had "Ye Olde" in their names.

This man had a sheet of linoleum for jigging on.

There were two bands playing at the Highlander Festival. This is one of them.

This may be the other one.

I think this woman was confused and thought it was ren-fair.

Unfortunately, the Highlander festival was not at all like the movie The Highlander.

They were serving haggis though.

The festival did provide a jolly bagpipe player though (bagpipe player is to the left of the frame).

This man with a 4-wheeler was very drunk.

This blurry figure was wearing a pelt and had a large knife.

The man to the right kept going around shouting "There can be only one!"

I don't know if there are laws to prevent drunk 4-wheelin'.