tourists in our own town... along with the rest of the world.

Today was a wonderful day!  We played tourists in our own city!  We started out going to our finally re-opened favorite British pub for lunch (and of course watched Manchester United kill Arsenal).  From there, we rode the train uptown to walk around and play in the free children's library.  

The one thing that we didn't account for was the "World's Largest Pub Crawl", which was congregating uptown, at the bar across the street from the library at the exact same time we were there.  So, when we were walking to catch the train, we saw droves of people in green from head to toe also walking to the train.  We got on the train with said droves.  M and I got separated from P and the baby almost as soon as we got on.  P had the baby in the bjorn and was instantly surrounded by young (and pretty heavily intoxicated) ladies, who swooned over the 'guy with the baby'.  i was laughing hysterically from several seats back as he ate it up (as did the baby, actually.)

M loved all the get-ups that people had on (her favorite was a girl with a big mug o' beer hat on.)  At each stop (there were about four or five between lunch and the library), more and more people in green packed into the train cars, until i could barely see P and the baby anymore.

We finally met up outside at our stop and we were four other colors in a sea of green.  i have to admit, i was a bit green, myself, watching all the craziness surrounding us.  as fun a day as i had with my girls, i would have loved to have participated in the "World's Largest Pub Crawl."  

But we plowed through and spent our time in the children's library, having a wonderful day with our children.

And someday, when our kids are older and maybe the baby will let me go for a few hours, P and I can pretend we're young again and enjoy a good old fashioned pub crawl of our own.