The weekend before the fourth of July was the 28th annual Old St. Pat's "World's Largest Block Party". As always, a fun opportunity to volunteer and enjoy the festivities: serving the church while serving the masses delicious encased meats and burgers.
The headlining bands always prove to be a significant investment of resources, but we need more than last year's green skin tight suit-wearing men from Clear Wireless to bring people in. Some 16,000 people showed up Friday and Saturday night as we closed off two full city blocks for 2 stages, countless food vendors, and plenty of beverage providers. The exciting and [sometimes] well known music of Ben Folds Five (yes, five) and Lifehouse provided the masses with a great show.
It was a very busy, exhausting weekend. Sundays seem to be exempt from this busy-ness however because we had a birthday to celebrate. We got to celebrate with Megan and 30 of her closest friends at the Aberdeen Grill in the River West neighborhood. What an amazing group; we are all so blessed to have such wonderful friends and Megan is especially important to us. After being absent two years in a row, it was great to be with her for the birthday festivities.
In other interesting news, ever wondered what the inside of a 50mm f/1.8 lens looks like? I dropped this into a flower bed and it broke. So I learned to not buy cheap lenses. These pictures were taken with my newly acquired 28mm f/1.8. I'm currently "auditioning" the lens and am pretty pleased with it. More pictures to follow. It's definitely not as sharp as it could be at 1.8 but 2.8 and even 2.0 is respectable.
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