Pubbing

Friday night fun.

After hours and hours of working but not really doing anything productive because I'm just observing others not actually doing my own work (yeah and if you can follow that you deserve a medal)....the individual I was shadowing invited me out to a local Irish pub to unwind from the day. A little background might be necessary at this point. The individual who I had the pleasure of working with on Friday is from Philadelphia but her parents are from Ireland. She herself has dual citizenship and has spent many, many summers in Ireland etc. Her fiance is authentic Irish who has only been here for about a year--and it is a little hard to understand him due to the accent. But nonetheless they are a great couple. So anyhow we all got together at the hotel along with another girl from the Sales department and headed over to this Irish pub called "Fado" on Locust St. for a couple of drinks cause Meagan's sister works there.

What a blast. Inbetween trying to figure out what Georgie was trying to say and then formulating a suitable response and us laughing our heads off about various topics it was indeed a fabulous night. We laughed, talked and even did a little dancing -- although Irish men don't dance and this proved that statement true. It has something to do with jigging, and keeping the upper body perfectly still while their feet go mad---Georgie and Meagan tried to explain it to me but I was laughing too hard at Georgie trying to dance for it to really sink in. Meagan is my age and when the songs from "our era" were played we showed the youngsters (Georgie and the Parisan lady from the Sales dept) how it should be done.

But this pub is indeed a little taste of Ireland in the States. Dark beams, soccer on the televisions and more Irish accents than you can shake a stick at. It was very interesting. Makes me want to visit Ireland soon for a lengthy vacation. Very cool people in a city that is shaping up to be quite fun.