Day 8--"Everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day"

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  Slept in until 11 am, which was good considering the lack of sleep I got the night before.  We stayed in the apartment for a couple hours, then headed to the St. Patty's Day festivities outside of Copenhagen City Hall.  I drank some Irish coffee, which was pretty good, and I had some candy floss--er, cotton candy.  I also bought myself a green hat with a belt buckle on it.  There were many performers present, including fiddlers, singers, dancers, and a bagpipe and drum band.  The "master of ceremonies" for the parade was, of course, St. Patrick, who, ironically, was Scottish and looked like Sean Connery.  I got to be in a picture with him.  Anyways, the performers performed from 3:30 until 5, then people started to line up for the parade.  Yes, anyone was able to participate in the parade, so Ian, Ryan, and I joined the parade.  It wasn't too long a walk, and despite the cold, I enjoyed myself and it was worth it.  After the parade, I took a picture of Ian and Ryan with St. Patrick, then we headed back home, had dinner (Hannah was kind enough to make some for us before we got back, yay!), and relaxed.  Didn't go out again tonight since we all have our first day of work (IQP) tomorrow and we want to make a good impression on our sponsors.  In fact, my group and I tweaked our presentation a bit for tomorrow's presentation to our sponsor.