A reporter is never truly on vacation!

So, this is my first trip to Ireland and I do have a tad bit of Irish blood. We go here Sunday evening and hit the streets on this beautiful sunny day to see the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin. How cool!

This is a 4-minute video highlight of what it’s like to watch the parade (about 2 hours long), and like parade’s, it gets better as it moves along. There are tons of American bands here and all doing us proud.

We saw the University of Illinois Marching Band, Auburn University Marching Band and high school bands from places like West Bend, Wisconsin. You can see some of them on this video also. The Irish were great hosts and they let me in the media area to get some of this video … they like Sky News.