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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all you wonderful Dads out there!

Honored to have had this wonderful man in my life for 26 years.

I'll take quality of years over quantity, hands down.

Undergrad Graduation Celebration 2009.

Father's Day 2010.

Ice Cream Dates.
Every Friday for as long as I can remember.

Thanks for making every day count, Dad.

Your little girl,

Kate

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Mom

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms out there!

Since I am miles, and miles, and miles from my mom, the best that we could do today was a skype call to say, a quick Hello and I love you.

It's a good thing we got that out in the first 15 seconds of the call because the remainder of the time we spent discussing what was going on with skype, and why it was ruining this Hallmark holiday for us.

In the end, we decided to move Mother's Day to Friday.

Crisis averted.

Love you, Mom.

Eileen's daughter,

Kate

[The Latest]

Must Read: Barbara Walters to Announce Retirement on The View...NY Times.

Google Search: Apple store Ginza station exit.

Tune: King and Lionheart By Of Monsters and Men.

Accomplishment: A lovely weekend.
Obsessions: iMovie.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Spring Break Update

Hello again!

I'm back from a lovely few weeks of travel in and around Japan with my mom and Aunt Carol, followed by a few days in Hong Kong. I could describe to you in detail how it all went, but I figured a few nifty pics from my iphone would be even more special.

Here are a few of my faves from the past few weeks, enjoy!

xoxo,

Kate

Monday, March 18, 2013

Tokyo St. Patrick's Parade Behind the Scenes

I promise I will cool it on the St. Patrick's Day coverage, but I just had a few more things to say and pictures to share...

The parade went fabulously! I arrived in Tokyo at about 11am, had a quick lunch with Dermot before we walked down to check-in. I changed from my train riding wear into my official queendom outfit and was off to take pictures and make sure my tiara stayed put. We congregated in an elementary school yard, where we got lined up and ready to walk.

The parade took place on what is essentially "main street" of Tokyo, so the the hours in which the street was allowed to be shut down was very strict. At 2pm on the button, we began processing down the road, waving, and handing out stickers to onlooking kids. The other VIPs and I created a line of sashes and smiles.

The VIP group consisted of:

Ambassador John Neary and his wife, Mary

Irish Transport Minister Leo Varadkar, who was flown in for the parade

Chairman of the Irish Network Japan, Howard Barr

Grand Marshal Dermot Killoran

Parade Queen Kate Bohan

It was such a great day! I am so thankful to have had soooo many friends there supporting me and enjoying the festivities. Thank you guys so much!

I'll stop talking now and let you look at the pics. ;)

The first few were taken by my friends Taiki and Sayaka with their cameras from the sidelines, essentially what you would have seen if you were there. The last few were from my iphone, a behind the scenes peak if you will.

Photo by Taiki.

Photo by Sayaka.

Photo by Sayaka.
For the record, they asked me to dance on the table...

Queen's eye view of the pre and post parade madness.

Train travelin.

Bagpipes.

Stickers.

St. Patrick himself.

Met these two lovely ladies Friday night at dinner. They had been flown in for the parade and had both worked with Michael Flatley. I was just a touch starstruck. Deirdre Shannon is the one on the right.

What we walked out to just prior to the parade beginning.

Elementary school kids from the earthquake affected region.

Loved this little girl.
She turned to me, dead serious, and said, "Are you queen forever?"
"Nooo. I wish! Only today and Wednesday."
"Oh..."
But then I tried on her hat and we were BFF.