Fourth generation Savannah residents and cousins Danny and Ted Robertson, right, wave to friends while in the St. Patrick's Day parade, Friday, March 14, 2008 in Savannah, Ga. Savannah boasts the nation's second-largest St. Patrick's parade, behind only New York, and typically draws up to 400,000 revelers each year.
Briahna Grace, a 13-month-old Savannah native, watches the city's St. Patrick Day parade, Friday, March, 14, 2008, from the lap of her uncle, Dylan Grace, in Savannah, Ga.
Phoebe, a family pet dressed in her green bandana for St. Patrick's Day watches parade goers pass her front door, Friday, March 14, 2008, in Savannah, Ga. The date of the annual parade was changed because of a quirk in the 2008 calendar that places Monday the 17th during Holy Week. It happens only about once a century.
Kelsey Freeze of Savannah kisses an U.S. Army officer marching in the 2008 St. Patrick's Day parade, Friday, March 14, 2008 in Savannah, Ga. This year, the parade date was moved up because St. Patrick's Day conflicts with Holy Week observances and many revelers plan to observe the time religiously.
Deborah Padilla, right, of Savannah kisses a person marching in the 2008 St. Patrick's Day parade, Friday, March 14, 2008 in Savannah, Ga. Savannah boasts the nation's second-largest St. Patrick's parade, behind only New York, and typically draws up to 400,000 revelers each year.
Dressed in green, Isabelle Russell, left, and her friends Reed Wixson and Mattie Brennan, right, watch the St. Patrick's Day parade from behind a steel barricade, Friday, March 14, 2008, in Savannah, Ga. Savannah's 184-year-old celebration of its strong Irish heritage draws up to 400,000 party guests a year to the historic Southern city.
John Giblin of Belmar, N.J., plays bag pipes with the Pipes and Drums of the Jersey Shore during the St. Patrick's Day parade, Friday, March, 14, 2008 in Savannah, Ga. Parades kicked off on Savannah's main downtown drag, Bull Street, and the bagpipes, Irish dancers and floats filled the area.
Clay Hatfield of Richmond Hill, Ga., dances in the streets and shakes hands with anyone who will stop during the St. Patrick's Day parade, Friday, March 14, 2008, in Savannah, Ga. St. Patrick's Day provides Savannah's biggest tourist weekend of the year.
Visitors walk past jewelry shop on historic River Street Wednesday March 12, 2008, in Savannah, Ga. Tourists come by the thousands every year to celebrate St. Patrick's Day with a parade and partying throughout the city over the weekend. Savannah's 184-year-old celebration of its strong Irish heritage draws up to 400,000 party guests a year to the historic Southern city.