St. Patrick's Day in Asia

Very American holiday's are always interesting when celebrated in Taiwan. As one can imagine, the Taiwanese don't get overly excited about holiday's such as St. Patrick's day. Now we do a pretty good job at picking up the slack and making the best of it, but it's always difficult to get certain essentials.

For St. Patricks day this year, Nichole (my roommate) and I decided to have a little green gathering at our apartment. And since it was such a fun themed party, we wanted to get costumes to really take it to the next level. We go to a costume shop where you can rent full costumes for school a lot. So we drove over there and checked it out last Friday. Sadly enough, we couldn't find any full body leprechaun costumes there, but we got creative and still made the party a hit!

We didn't have any green food coloring to make themed appetizers, but we did get foods in the three main colors of the Irish flag (and of course positioned them in the order of the flag as well). So even though we live in Asia where pots of gold and four leaf clover decorations are impossible to find, we gave it the old American try and did our best with random stuff! It turned out pretty well too!