The Life of an Irish Man (and women and children haha)

PUBS.. most know them as a place to go and just drink pints of Guinness, however, today I learned that Pubs are an Irish social setting, like coffee shops to Americans.  Families will go here after mass, after sporting events, for dinnner, just about anywhere in Ireland and any time of the day.  Today, we took the Dublin tour bus all around Dublin.  We visited all of the major sights and people watched like no ones business haha.  At each sight, you can get off and walk around and 10 mins later a new bus will pick you up, well, my new friends and I decided that we could find the next sight on our own.. well we were wrong.  We attempted to find it, finally realizing we were going in the complete opposite direction.  However once we found the bus stop our next stop was at the Guinness Storehouse.. 7 floors, each explaining how Guinness is made and the history of it.. on the top floor there was a glassed in bar that looked over Dublin.. and it is here that I had my first Guinness, pretty amazing :).  For dinner, we went to a local bar and had traditional Irish food and listened to live Irish music, they people here are so welcoming and so great, also, they are very sarcastic ;).  After dinnner, we went out on the town.  We went to Gorgaty's (I think that's how it is spelled) and went upstairs where they was another, younger band playing Irish Music.  We all drank and danced like fools (of course everyone knew we were Americans) and it was a blast!
 Pubs are not just places were people go to get drunk and act ridiculous, they strengthen the community and social interaction between people and create a lively, fun, entertaining atmosphere that brings people together in a way that allows them to experience new things and learn more about other's and especially more about themselves.  There will be plently more Pubs to come :)

Cheers!

Irish phrase of the Day.. Where's the Crack? ( Where's the fun?) :)