St Patrick's Day In New Zealand

All through the week I had seen the usual St Patrick's Day advertising around down and at the Irish bars for what looked like a drunk fest of Guinness and whiskey! :P one of the bars even had a massive inflatable leprechaun on its roof- it was really funny! :P

I bought some decorations and cut out some little shamrocks from some green paper I had and put them up in the kitchen. I went to mass and was immediately stopped by an old parish priest (I was wearing a green top) and started talking away to me and then wondered where I grew up because I didn't have a an Irish accent ...(seriously there's more than one Irish accent). There wasn't a mention of St Patrick - althought to be fair there could've been because the mass was half in Latin and had Gregorian chanting the whole way through.... great.

Rainbow over Wellington Harbour - perhaps there were
some  Leprechauns?!

Leaving I went to the supermarket. There was some guy with a big leprechaun hat standing there looking so hungover with 2 cases of beer in the queue. There seemed to be so many Irish people there and to be honest some if them were doing my head in. I came to New Zealand to escape people from home! I then went to the Sunday veggie market and got lots of groceries for dinner. Being St Patrick's day it just had to rain as I was walking home -(Even thought it hasn't rained in over a month in Wellington!)


My lovely new flatmates made green pancakes - so yummy! :D I spent most of the afternoon making dinner. I made, potato bread (surprised it came out yummy!), chocolate buns with green icing, apple pie,champ and some good old stew. We then had a lovely flat family dinner-  it was great! My flatmates even got green balloons - it was super nice! :D

Green Pancakes

Apple Pie & Guinness

Green buns!

Had a great day,
Happy St. Patrick's Day!