85. Blarney by the Beach

It's 7:11 pm on St. Patrick's Day.  Do you know where your leprechaun is?  (Sorry, it had to be done.)

Okay.  Seriously, it's 7:11 pm on St. Patrick's Day in Hermosa Beach on the beach block of Pier Avenue.  With venues like Hennessey's and Patrick Malloys you know there's celebrating to be had.

Your SoCal gal hopes you also brought a little something else with you, the Luck O'the Irish.  You needed this luck in spades to get into the happening venues.  As you can see from the photo, at 7:11 pm a line was already forming.

There was a time when your SoCal gal didn't mind standing in line.  Heck!  Anyone with the perfect personality is able to have fun anywhere, right?

It's just that your SoCal gal had just experienced a bunch of blarney by the beach.  Not to be confused with Blarney, the town in County Cork, Ireland nor with Barney, the child entertaining, purple Tyrannosaurus rex or Barney, my cousin the BMX trick biker.

As standing in line is something she would rather not do if she can help it (in this case she could), she was ready to make like a baby and head out.  That was before someone stopped her advising she stay to watch the sunset.  Why?  This night was said to be one of the rare evenings when you can see a green flash in the sky the second the sun goes down.  So she stopped.

Your SoCal gal only had one beer and that was with dinner.  Can't blame it on that.

About now you are probably thinking, "Wow!  That SoCal gal will believe anything."

In her defense she was lured by the promise it must be real 'cuz it is on the internet (are you laughin?)...not just some blarney a leprechaun disguised as a real life couple was trying to feed her.  Not only did she stop, she filmed it too.

Turns out it is true.  Click here to be directed to the Green flash Wikipedia page, if you wish to learn more about it.  AND, it would have been awesome had the optical phenomenon known as the green flash been visible on this particular day when green rules.

P.S.  I know!  Your SoCal gal was thinking it too.  "Green Flash" would be a great name for a superhero. Maybe a long, lost cousin to the Green Hornet?  Perhaps the official superhero of St. Patrick's Day?  Let's check the internet.  'Cuz, you know.  If it is on the internet, it must be real and/or true, right?