Hi
Just wanted everyone to know final details of St. Pat's/Bill's birthday/Megan's shower celebration weekend. First of all, your t-shirts will be at our house, so you can pick them up before the parade. (except for the Bob's, and I'm mailing those off to MD).
Megan's bridal shower brunch will be at 10 here at our house. Fun fun fun! Guys, you can hang out at the farm.
Everyone is on their own for food at noon...there is plenty of good food downtown. We are to lineup at 12:30 on North Broadway. We march in the pre-parade which is at 1. We have a Neary banner to carry; we'll be marching as group, the "Joe Neary" descendants, but the "Bill Neary" descendants (Ab, Dick's families) are walking too, so all the Neary's will be walking as 2 groups next to each other (all of us are John Neary descendants). Joe and Therese (Neary) Geelan are coordinating that. Along the parade route we have gold candy coins and green gum coins to hand out to kids (courtesy of Laura). :)
Immediately after the parade, there is to be a group photo next to Robert Emmet. The St. Pat's committee is asking 'the families' to be in the picture. I'm sure we'll want a Neary family picture too. There is a "Meeting of the Clans" at the Fire Hall after the parade. The Irish Minstrels will be playing...and it sounds like this will be OK for the kids to go to... The group is supposed to be really good. Some of us will be coming back to our house after that.... I'm sure the rest of you will be doing the Emmetsburg pub crawl.
At 5, we'll have Bill's birthday celebration. Grandpa Bob will be coming up here for that. After that, you're free to watch March Madness here or go out to the bars or go to the casino.
Sunday, for anyone here at noon time yet, we're eating at Pizza Ranch.
A word to the wise...if you haven't been to a parade in March, it is usually COLD and windy! There was one year when it was warm, but don't count on that---it's never happened since that one time. So unless you want to freeze, wear plenty of layers!!
For anyone getting here on Friday night, you can meet here at our house... let me know if you'll be eating in Eburg that night. We may do Mexican, depending on how many are here....
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Terry,I ordered 300 necklaces to throw out during our march down mainstreet.Let me Know what else you might need.
Thanks Bill!Necklaces sound great...Laura ordered some of those for the Neary's to wear, so that'll be good to have some to throw out too.
I think we have about 500 pieces of candy/gum to hand out to kids. On a day when there's a big crowd, that probably won't be enough...so we will probably need more candy. We could do more coin candies or just a bag or two of those Brachs candies you can get at the grocery store. I was waiting on getting more until we saw what the weather was doing...if it's really cold/nasty, the 500 could be enough.
I. AM. SO. EXCITED.
I can't wait! I'll be in North Pole for 3 days, and then back to mainland USA! Whoohoo!
Bill ordered necklaces? Now I've seen it all.
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