All Things Irish...

Ok, so for those who know me really well, will know that St. Patricks Day is actually one of my all-time favorite holidays. I started Irish Dancing at the age of 20. It was soon after Riverdance became so popular. I thought the dancing was just beautiful and I really wanted to learn how. I started lessons with St. Brendan's School of Irish Dance in Colorado Springs, CO. After I moved to Denver I transferred to Heritage, and later to Bennett when they did some rearranging of schools. I was also able to dance and march with the City of Denver Pipe Band.

I loved it...I miss it. It was SO much fun. Here in Phoenix, there is no Irish Dance school even remotely close to me and there is NO pipe band...nothing. I miss my friends, I miss dancing, I miss my cool costumes. Hahah... Here are some pics for you to enjoy of my friends and I in our last St. Patricks day before we moved to AZ.

Stephanie and I with our zany head-dress. We joked that we should have gotten paid by that tax agency for advertising their business. Stephanie and I were called the "Terror Twins" by other Pipe Band members. I have no idea why...we usually couldn't stop giggling...we were not terrors at all.

Our dance group. Ken, our token dancer-man.

Don... whom I alway affectionally referred to as "The Grand Poobah."
Parade lineup.

Can-can girls? Nope...just Irish Dancers. We had crazy amounts of fun.
I miss my dancer-friends a LOT.

I do have some other Irish Dance photo's from competition and performances...Those will be comeing up sometime between now and St. Pat's too.
Go green!