St. Patricks day

           I love St. Patrick's day, dressing up in green and having green contests, such as seeing how much green stuff you  can where at once without making people think you are extremely weird, making people think your actually a leprechaun, or one everybody hates, I bet I can eat more green stuff than you, such as vegetables. St. Patrick wasn't Irish, he was born in Britin in the late 4th century, Maewyn Succat ( St. Patrick ) was captured and enslaved by Irish raiders, after yaers of forced labor he escaped to Britin where he joined the Catholic church and changed his name to Patrisius or Patrick. Years later he went back to Ireland as a Christian Missonary ( don't know what that is or how to spell it ) and spent 30 years converting the Irish to Christian. after that rumor has it that he got all the snakes off Ireland, but there never were any snakes on Ireland. When he died he became the Patron Saint of Ireland dispite him being British. In 1903 it became a national holiday in Ireland celebrated on march 17 when St. Patrick died. They usauly went to church and had a feast. Drinking was actually banned on St. Patrick's Day until the 1970s. Irish imagrants brought the holiday to the USA in the early 1700s. The first St. Patrick's day parade was held in Boston in 1737, there are over 100 St. Patrick's day Parades in the country. In Chicago they use 40lbs of green dye to turn the river greener every year, New York City's Parade is the biggest in the world with an estimated 2 million spectators.  Cick me. GREEN!!!