Denver St. Patrick's Day Parade

Widely billed as America's largest St. Patrick's Day parade outside of New York, Denver's parade was graced by beautiful 70 degree weather this year. Chris, Maggie, and I headed downtown to march with the rest of the greyhound adoption group and generally soak up some sunshine. We did get a couple funny photos from the staging area:

This was an entire group of Star Wars type people, obviously. Mostly storm troopers, probably because they look good in large numbers, but also an overweight Sand Person, a Leia with real hair buns, and an impressively tall Darth Vader. No, I'm not sure what they were doing in our St. Patrick's Day parade, but...

At least this guy got into the spirit of it.

Chris pointed out these kids from Wyoming and proclaimed them to be the "laziest marching band on earth." Can't say I disagree.

Here's our Maggie at home, before we left for the parade. She was rechristened Maggie McGee for the day, and was oh-so-pretty.

There were about 20 greyhounds at the parade, most of whom were dressed up or decorated somehow. The theme of the parade (why one needs a theme beyond "green stuff and Irish crap" is beyond me) was "Irish Roots and Cowboy Boots." So, yeah. I wore my hat.