St Patrick's day!!
Yesterday was green beer day and although I am not a huge fan of draft beer I am a huge fan of any opportunity to go out and be silly.
Who was the main drinking team..... one American girl who is used to big parades, big parties and big hats, One midlife gal whose goal is to keep life easy and one cheery gal who always has a young cutie chasing her. Add a few of the manly friends rotating through the festivities for back up and we have a three gal drinking team with serious stamina.
When did we start?? Started early; to ensure we got the best seat in the house, catched the lunch crowd with plans not to leave till all beer is drank. The greatest thing about starting early is you seek out strange bonds with those others that also have plans to stay for the long haul. Work can be done from a bar stool with a pint of green beer, beer napkins for notepads and good Irish music playing in the back ground. What can't be done is the jig without at least a pint of beer in ya!! Have you noticed that getting Jiggy is so much easier once you have had some rocket fuel.
Who did we know?? The object of Irish drinking is to get to know EVERYONE that travels through for a beer. We don't care if you are tall, short, skinny,young or old; have green hair, wear a unitard, have strange hats or have half closed eye lids we meet you, raised a glass and talk of good times to come.
Our stories are many but you would have to ask a green wig for the full evening events as I think it got the full tour...
If you missed out on yesterdays shenanigans I can only share with you that the three gals of drinking came close to meeting everyone that traveled through the English pub ,that we stayed for 11 hours of enjoyment and totaly am proud to say we walked out of there as good drinking Irishmen....we drank, we sang and we danced....heads held high, smiles on with only friends left behind.
The wig made it home, the heads are big and the memories once again are Calgary made.
Enjoy and don't forget to smile
