The parade rarely falls on the actual day, so even though you're all expected to be boozing it up in an Irish bar on Wednesday, many a twentysomething took today's parade as a perfect excuse to start early. San Francisco's St. Paddy's Day Parade (and btw, point of information: It's St. Paddy, if you must... Patty is a girl) doesn't really hold a candle to New York's or Chicago's, but hey, it's still over an hour long and gives all the Bay Area's Irish organizations and step-dancing clubs a reason to get together and take a stroll to Civic Center. Please enjoy our gallery, which includes several of our fine Supervisors in little cars (Ross Mirkarimi's MiniCooper being the tiniest... so tiny that he just walked alongside it).