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St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop Winners! Was it you?

3/17/2012

Happy Saint Patrick's Day everyone, and happy birthday to my father-in-law!

I bet you are all sitting around wondering if you were chosen for one of the many amazing prizes...

So I won't make you wait any longer.
The winners for the GRAND PRIZES from the entire hop are:

Winner of the Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet:
#136 from Carrie Ann Ryan’s
Melissa L
Winner of the $90 Amazon or B&N Gift Card
#4186 from Wendy Smith’s Blog
Shadow

Now I bet you're wondering who won my giveaway... right?

@ 1:39 JDW posted... and that is who won.

Thank you to all 73 comments! And to anyone who read my blog and just didn't want to comment! You guys rock!

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St. Patrick's Day Blog Hop!

3/16/2012

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HAPPY SAINT PATRICK'S DAY!

So let's start with what you can win, because let's face it, we all like to get stuff! From the blog hop, you could win:

* DRUM ROLL PLEASE*

Grand Prize 1: Winner's Choice of a Kindle Fire or Nook Tablet

Grand Prize 2: Winner's Choice of a $90 Amazon or Barnes&Noble Gift Card

Hot damn! If only I could enter! Hee hee!
Okay, from my awesome self you could get a $10 gift card to Amazon! Woot woot! Read on to find out how to enter!

So I thought in honor of the wee little people, I would share with you guys some of the strange traditions that happen around St. Patrick's Day.. you know, the stuff you didn't know before and probably could've lived your entire life without finding out! Good thing I thought of this blog, huh? :0)

So in Chicago, they dye their river BRIGHT FREAKING GREEN! This isn't something that they just started doing, oh no, they've been doing it for over 40 years! Why you might ask? Because they are damn Irish PROUD... or maybe someone just dumped a few gallons of food coloring in one year and they were like ' YES, BEST IDEA EVER!'

In Brisbane, Australia being Irish isn't about how green you can be or about the little men that dance around pots of gold at the end of the rainbow. No, they make sure to point to all the people that it takes to make up the foundation of Australia, by taking time to dress up like teachers, lawyers, and such. Because that's what it's all about, right? Not a holiday highly celebrated for its green beer.

When you come into O'Neil, Nebraska you are greeted with a huge shamrock on the highway. And just to top that off, they have an Irish festival that includes none other than a dramatic reading of Green Eggs and Ham. What doesn't say Irish quite like green eggs and ham...

Apparently, in Wisconsin, there is a town that renames itself "New Dublin," eats corned beef and cabbage all week, and does a parody on Finnegan's Wake. Now, you could probably come up with a hundred different ways to parody that wake... but it probably wouldn't include a bright green painted hearse complete with its very own movement triggered flying "dead body" (aka mannequin). Who doesn't want dead bodies flying in celebration of the Saint Patrick.

And with all the big happenings all over the place for the great holiday that is St. Patrick's Day, why not on the world's shortest street as well? In Hot Springs, Arkansas, they hold a parade complete with green fireworks, Irish belly dancers (because this just screams Ireland to me!) and a pub-crawl. I'd like to know how the shortest street is hosting a pub-crawl... I'm just saying, what is on this street exactly?

So you want that gift card? I mean you did read through all of that to find out how to get it right?

First, if you wanna know if you won, follow my blog! Easy peasy!
Second, please 'like' me on Facebook

Third, follow me on Twitter

Follow @jkimmelf

Fourth, and most important, leave a comment so I can contact you with your strange and bizarre holiday traditions, I know not everyone celebrates St. Patrick's Day! Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Feel free to snag a copy of one of my books too! :0)

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