St. Patty's in NY

We weren't able to make it to the parade on 5th Ave., so we decided we'd get a babysitter and enjoy an "adult" celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Who knew we lived on the hottest street in town?? 2nd Ave. is known for it's Irish Pubs and HUGE St. Patrick's Day crowds. We teamed up wtih Kelly & Mark (7A) and started with dinner at Doc Watson's - just two blocks from our house. It was extremely crowded - but we knew that was going to be the norm, so we decided to stay. We pushed our way past the drunken fools and finally reached the restaurant portion of the bar. I was feeling somewhat anxious at this point. Just a hunch - but I was thinking "This place was way over capacity and what would we do if there was a fire". Boy am I old!
We sat down - ate and drank some Irish Beer (actually I had Miller Light, I'm not that adventurous) and decided to move to our next stop. Our goal was to see some Live Irish Music - but at this point it wasn't looking too promising. We hopped around to 3 or 4 more Irish Pubs in the area that were absolutely packed to the gills and finally resolved that the "live music" thing wasn't going to happen. At about 11:00pm we decided to eat again! So we went to yet another pub for some more greasy fried food and beer. I however, was finished with beer. I'm not a huge beer person anyway, but was trying to hang in there for a while. Three Miller Lights was as far as I got.
At this point I was hoping our friends might be as tired as I was... but no such luck - we were off to another pub. I can literally count on one hand the times I've been "bar hopping" and even less than that - the times I actually enjoyed bar hopping. I would have been great with a plate of Italian Food and glass of red wine... but in the spirit of the holiday - I was a good sport!
We finished up the night in apt. 7-A making chocolate chip cookies at 1:30am.
Overall - it was a fun night and I know Chris enjoyed the tasty Irish Beers on tap.
The next morning came way too early with Griffin pulling our covers off and literally opening our eyelids and saying "get up mommy" "get up daddy"!