Bagpipes

I went over to Alexandria tonight to meet up with friends for dinner. It started innocently enough..hopped off the metro, headed down King Street, and ran into THIS:

A bunch a hooligans playing bagpipes and snare drums. Normally I don't like bagpipes. But for some reason, tonight I didn't hate it.. Unknown to me, today was Alexandria's St. Patrick's Day parade so leftovers were strewn all over town. But more on that in a few. I went to meet Maddy at her place of work (Lavender Moon Cupcakes, seriously good. seriously. go and get the gluten-free chocolate..or the hummingbird).

After Eleanor met up with us, we ventured out for some Thai. Upon leaving the restaurant, we noticed a man standing, facing a tree.. a man standing a bit too close to a tree..oh! a man PEEING on a tree. Whoops. I couldn't not take a picture. He did not seem to mind. Consider him a leftover of the day's celebrations.

With the sound of bagpipes in the distance, we retreated to the waterfront to finish leftover cupcakes...

...but two stragglers (a bagpiper and a drummer) followed us! In an effort to appease them and hopefully get them to stop, we gave an offering of cupcakes. They didn't stop to eat them. So we ran left...

...and found peace and happiness in the taffy section of a candy shop. WHO KNEW there were so many different flavors of taffy. Choosing flavors and then determining which flavors we were about to eat was almost as stressful as being chased around old town by bagpipes and snare drums and drunks.

Happy St. Patrick's Day Alexandria