Birthday Festivities, Celtic Style

This quick trip to Florida was to help my sister-in-law, Lynnette, celebrate her 40th birthday. She appreciated our joining her, but she didn't really need much assistance -- this was a thoroughly planned and very successful event with a ton of friends and family members.

Lynnette is very proud of her Irish heritage and so the party was at her favorite Irish pub (or one of them . . . ) in Winter Park. Hagan O'Reilly's reserved the outside deck for the birthday festivities. Activities included hoisting a few, some singing, eating, a juggling performance, music by Lynnette's favorite band (more on that later) and more drinking.

The performers brought Lynnette on stage several times. I shot this video of her between the jugglers (I can't edit it on this system, so it's a bit choppy; I'll fix it later). She was also called up to join the band for one number -- a tune that is actually not a favorite, but it was all in good-natured teasing.

The band, Off Kilter, performs regularly at Epcot and Lynnette catches their shows regularly as well as their performances in other events. They can do some serious rockin' even with bagpipes. Their repertoire includes some decidedly nontraditional takes on such traditional tunes as "Danny Boy" and this set included music by Steppenwolf. Now, that's flexibility.