St. Pat's Photo Contest Submissions and Winner!

Josie
Photo by Catalina

Point Your Toes
Photo by Catalina

Tomas
Photo by Catalina

Starbucks Drinks
Photo by Catalina

Kyra and Josie
Photo by Catalina

Icy Shamrock
Photo by Sarah

Team Cairdeas Restaurant Break
Photo by Sarah

Sisterly Love (Olivia and Sarah)
Photo by Sarah

Soft Shoe Formation
Photo by Sarah

Self-Portrait With Green Wig
Photo by Sarah

Amalie, Veronica and Rhiannon
Photo by Rhiannon

Veronica's Green Hair Bow
Photo by Rhiannon

Veronica
Photo by Rhiannon

Kyra and Avery With Their Green Sashes
Photo by Catharine

Catalina Drinking Her Shamrock Shake
Photo by Catharine

Refreshing Drinks At Starbucks
Photo by Catharine

Catalina and Catharine: Driving To A Show
Photo by Catharine

Declan, Avery and Josie
Playing "Heads Up Seven Up" While Waiting For A Show
Photo by Catharine

Glittery Shamrock
Photo by Sabine

Headband Decorations
Photo by Sabine

Mckenna and Holly
Photo by Sage

A big thank you to Catalina, Sarah, Rhiannon, Catharine, Sabine and Sage for submitting these photos to the 3rd Annual Pickett Line Blog St. Patrick's Contest! All photos were taken during Eire Born shows during St. Pat's weekend. Thank you for sharing these with us; you did a great job with your photos!

Each of your names was entered into a draw for a random prize drawing for a $25 gift card. And the winner is...

6 entries into the drawing...

Names in a bowl...

Reaching up to draw a random winner...

Rhiannon wins the St Pat's Photo Contest!

Congratulations Rhiannon!

Please send me an email at pickettlineblogAThotmail.com and let me know if you would prefer a $25 iTunes gift card or a $25 Chapters gift card! Your prize will also include a little something extra too :) We will make sure to deliver your prize once classes resume in April! One of your photos will also be included in the 2013 Ceili Slide Show!

Coming very soon: Some updates from Day 1 in Boston!

First Photos From Worlds!

Shannon, Olivia, Halle, Sydney and Macaela
Picking up their official dancer ID cards at the venue today

Olivia, Halle, Sydney and Macaela

Many thanks to Lauren N for submitting these photos from Boston! Lauren is in Boston with her sister Halle (U-13 Ceili team member).

Lauren says "Doors opened a few hours ago to the Worlds venue. Ceili practice this morning for the U-11 and U-13 teams. Here is a picture of some of the girls with their dancer cards".

Thank you Lauren and good luck to all of our competitors tomorrow! This first day will see the largest number of NPIDA dancers (9!) competing at Worlds on a single day, as Girls U-11, U-12 and U-13 will all be dancing on Sunday.

U-11: Caitlin, Jadyn, Sarah, Megan and Sydney
U-12: Thea
U-13: Macaela, Jessie and Camryn

Worlds Starts on Sunday!

Photo and graphics by Courtney

Best of luck to our 29 Worlds dancers, many of whom arrived in Boston over the past few days; the rest will be en route in the days ahead.

As usual at Worlds, there will be a paid "Live Commentary" service available through "On The Feis". You can sign in at any time to "Read live updates about each competition, featuring photos taken onstage and backstage. Watch real time video of team competitions and results ceremonies. Plus get updates on recall numbers, and results, and even buy full adjudicators results after the ceremonies. Finally watch and re-watch on-demand videos of your favorite Boston moments!"

According to their Facebook page they are currently still getting set up; the "early bird" cost is $18 if you register before midday on March 24; $23 after that. Click here for full details: www.onthefeis.com

St. Pat's Photos from Claudia, Nicole and Cheryl

Team Fetch at O'Hares

Catalina and Catharine (back)
with guest dancers Emily and Olivia

Zipper help! Kyra and Emma; Catalina and Catharine

Team Fetch at Augustine House

Ice cream break!
Josie, Emma, Catharine, Olivia and Catalina

Tomas, Catharine and Catalina with shamrock shakes

Fueling up between shows
Olivia, Kyla, Josie and Sabine
 

Naptime after a long day!

Team Fetch at their last show of the evening
8:00pm at the Buck & Ear

Emma, Catalina and Laurel
At Global TV on March 17

Eire Born at the Kiwanis Care Centre, March 19
Back: Jayne, Gemma, Emma B, Maria and Alison
Middle: Alannah, Anna, Emma H and Olivia
Front: Katelyn, Veronica and Laurel

At Kiwanis Care Centre

Eire Born at Century House, March 20
Back: Anna, Olivia, Gemma, Catalina and Laurel
Front: Katelyn, Jayne and Catharine

The Crew and Team Cairdeas at Amica West Vancouver

Guest dancers at Amica

The Crew and Team Cairdeas at Amica

The Crew and Team Cairdeas at Amica

The Crew at Hollyburn Sailing Centre

Sisters Camryn and Mackenzie

Jayne, Emma and Mackenzie

The Crew in action
at Hollyburn Sailing Centre

The Crew at Hollyburn Sailing Centre

Thank you to Claudia (photos 1-10), Nicole (photos 11-13) and Cheryl (photos #14-22) for submitting these St. Pat's photos from last weekend!

Dancers: don't forget to submit your photo entries for the 3rd Annual St. Pat's Photo Contest - the deadline is this Saturday, March 23!

Many thanks to Jennifer for sending this link to the Global TV video which showcased some of our Worlds dancers on the morning show on St. Patrick's Day: http://www.globaltvbc.com/video/eire+born+irish+dancers/video.html?v=2347896268&p=1&s=dd&searchQuery=Eire#video/search/Eire