Students from Florida State University attended the Rough Riders Saint Patrick's Day Parade with one thing in mind.
Over 70 units of floats threw thousands of beads to cheering paradegoers.
The 17th annual Rough Riders Saint Patrick’s Day Parade energized Ybor City on Saturday night in front of a crowd of thousands of revelers dressed in green. The weather was perfect, the beads were flying, and folks from all over came to enjoy the merriment.
This article appears in Mar 15-21, 2012.