Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Flowers in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland

Oscar Wilde, Irish Writer, statue located in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland

Merrion Square, Dublin Ireland

ChrisChurch Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland

Irish Sea as seen from Howth, Ireland

Ha'penny Bridge, Dublin, Ireland

In 2009 I was lucky enough to spend St. Patrick's Day in Ireland! Wish I was there today...

And the winner is.........

First I want to say a HUGE thank you to everyone who signed up for the giveaway, as a follower and who faithfully played the "16 Days of Maggie" trivia! Thank you everyone for making my first giveaway loads of fun!

I tried to contact Pricewaterhouse to count the votes and protect the identity of the winner, but they were busy, so I went to Random.org. Each entry was assigned a number and the winner was randomly selected.

So, today, in celebration of my 4 years in the wonderful world of blogging, I am proud to announce the winner of my first giveaway, the person who is having the luck o' the Irish with them today, the winner is.....

CURLEY!!!

Congrats Curley, and I'll be dropping off your prize this weekend!

But wait! That's not all!

Because so many of you are faithful readers for so long and because so many of you played the trivia often (some of you had over 20 entries and some of you had over 10), the following people will be receiving a surprise consolation prize!!!:

• Lilith
  
• Bragger
• Evil Pixie
• TaDa
• Wiley
• Finn
• Sam/P
  

Again, thank you all for playing along and making my last 4 years wonderful. Wonder what the next ones will bring?

Pink lipsticky Kisses to you all!
Maggie Mae

Oh, and by the way,

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Go out and Shake your Shamrocks!

braving the crowd....

I'm heading out to see what chaos is happening on the streets of Dublin this St. Patrick's Day. As I've gabbed with the locals I've learned that it's just a civil holiday for the people who live here- like we get the day off of work on Memorial Day, and such. And most of the partying and revelry is actually for the tourists who flood the city from all over the world. Most locals want to get the heck outta town before the craziness hits.

So that being said, I'm going to head out and take pictures of all the idiot tourists, because of course, I'm not one of those! Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know I am... But I've been here for more than a week!

I wasn't brave enough to see the parade since they were expecting 400,000 people for it. Can we say "no way in hell" was I going to get stuck in that massive drunken group in which people had been lined up for LAST night and drinking since LAST night? (And I was exhausted from the whirlwind of Italy, of which I've put up a few pictures and promise many more to come!) But I sure am ready to have a Bulmers and people watch at temple Bar. Hopefully, I can share good pictures later!

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all, and may the luck of the Irish smile on you! It has me!

Wishing you pots of gold,
Maggie