St. Patty's Day

This is one of the first years that I haven't worked on St. Patty's Day... I also had no kiddos... so I got dragged out to a pub, hoping for some great Irish music and a little Jameson ;) Mel, a friend from Uncle Bears, and I have been talking about St. Patty's Day plans for a few months because we are both huge fans of the music and atmosphere that surrounds the holiday... and besides I got a little Irish in me after all. Chris was supposed to go to but decided on bailing at the last minute because he just wasn't in the mood and he knew it was going to be expensive.

Well, there were tons of people and the cover was outrageous... $25 which included this tiny little cup with 20 drink tickets. The beer options were great, lots of different Irish beers to pick from but the lines were crazy long for like 3 oz of beer a trip. Needless to say, we left with lots of tickets between us. There was a band and I was really looking forward to the music... turns out that they just played rock, some ACDC, Candlebox, etc. And they didn't play all that well, in fact they weren't very good. We got dismayed quickly and knowing that we had friends at the pub next door we stood in the 2 hour line to get in there... another $10 cover. The band played one Irish song... one! Really, what is this world coming to? We vowed to try to just go to Ireland next year... wow that would be awesome. Doubtful, but I guess you never know.

Needless to say it was a very long night... I actually had a whole lot of fun, spent lots of money and lets just say slept a lot on Wednesday ;) I would do it again in a heartbeat... but next year, if we are not in Ireland, then we are finding a real pub, with real Irish music!