If you feel that your bucket list is lacking something, add "Dublin on St. Patrick's Day," and I promise you won't regret it. Warning: Do NOT call it St. Patty's day, especially around the Irish. It's St. Patrick's, or Paddy's Day. The second option is based off of the Gaelic version of St. Patrick's name, Padraig. I know it's a hard habit to break, especially for Americans, but you'll save yourself a lot of pub brawls that way. In order to properly blend in with the locals, the first thing you have to do is procure a ridiculous hat. The more preposterous, the better. I could literally fill an entire photo album with just pictures of the silly hats that we saw. Michael chose an obnoxiously large leprechaun hat and I found a jaunty little version
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