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Everyone's Irish for a Day!


Today was, without question, the best St. Patrick's Day I've ever had. And not only because it's the first time I've ever really celebrated it.

We went out for lunch with Cam and his girlfriend. That was fun. She seems pretty nice.

Then I went to Alice in Wonderland with them. We were supposed to see it in 3D, but that was just one big fiasco... so I saw it in regular theatre again. I think I liked it better the second time around.

And then Uncle, Aunty and I went to a St. Patty's party! Oh, Plank came too. We got all decked out in our St. Patty's apparel. The party was really fun! All the people were really nice and friendly. We did this introduction thing - we all had sheets of paper with a random fact about each person and had to figure out who matched up with what. My clue was that I'm writing a novel. And I have never talked so much to a stranger about anything, particularly that. But one of the men there got me talking and asked me a whole bunch of questions about it. A lot of people were interested in the fact that I'm writing a novel. :) That was cool. Then we played a card game called Mystery Queen, which was really fun.

So, it was a really great day!

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