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St. Patrick's Parade, Raleigh, March 17, 2007

Our third St. Patrick's Parade. It was cold with a pretty mean wind much of the time, but great fun nonetheless. There was a big crowd in spite of the weather. Bob and Wade had to be out of town and were sorely missed.

In addition to the photos below, this year we have two AVI video clips of the rig in motion, one short and one long. Be patient downloading the long one.

StPats07-ShortVideo.avi (about 5 seconds, 2+ Mb)
StPats07-LongVideo.avi  (about 48 seconds, 24 Mb)
StPats07-LongVideo320x240.avi  (This is a compressed version of the longer video, only 4.3 Mb, and looks about as good. It works fine with RealPlayer, but on my system Windows Media Player will only play about 28 seconds and the video freezes.  It crashes my version of QuickTime.)


Click on a thumbnail to see the full size image.                   

This year the rig sported a real Irish flag, "aquired" by Ron from the Dublin-Liverpool ferry during the 1977 Applie Chill Cloggers tour of the British Isles.	Cap'n Kurt  braved the cold wind to get up early to set up the rig and drive the tractor downtown. It was just as cold for the drive home after the parade.
Vicky's dog Frances, a Westie,  stole the show, dressed in her native garb.	The gang this time, before Anne arrived, with Kurt taking the photo.
Hannah and Frances	Erin and Vicky with Irish adornments.
Anne ran a mini-marathon in the morning but arrived in time.	Ron and his Big Bottom strapped in securely amidst the chickens.
Warming up on a cold day. Some hurtin' fingers!	Cap'ns eye-view during the parade. We were followed by a nifty horse and wagon.