Saturday, 3.18.23, was when St. Croix celebrated St. Patrick’s Day.  The neighboring boat, Great Adventures, offered to take us into Christiansted to watch the parade.  So, around 10:15a, Mike and his daughter, Milly, drove us to town.  It was a beautiful, sunny day and everyone was in good spirits.  We parked a couple of blocks away from the parade route and walked into town.  We didn’t know quite what to expect but were looking forward to it.

The parade was a lot of fun. 

Onlookers were dancing in the street to extremely loud bands playing music on floats. 

Several local baton twirlers marched in procession, looking adorable. 

The jeep club had a large contingency in the parade. 

My favorite thing to see, by far, were the jump (Moko Jumbie) dancers on stilts.  I don’t know how they are able to balance while dancing.  They were very talented.

 

After the parade went past us, we walked down to the boardwalk. 

The party was just getting started there.  We bought something called a chicken pate, which was a fried dough pocket with chicken inside.  It was good, albeit fried.  We also got some ice cream to eat while walking around.  We saw a Heineken barge tied up to the dock.  They were getting ready to have a band play.  It was clear that the party would be moving to the boardwalk once the parade completely finished.  It was a lot of fun.