Saint Patrick’s Day

On Friday, 17th of March, we went out for the first time in downtown Charleston to grab some beers to celebrate St. Patricks days. We stopped at burger place to get our first all-American burger first. Americans really make decent burgers and – always nice to find out – know how to make good fries! Although we did get a few weird looks when, after finding out that there was only ketchup at the self service, we went back to the counter and asked for some mayo. The guy behind the counter was tactful enough to just oblige, but the woman who filled a few cups with mayo for us could now hide the surprise on her face. Hey, we’re the Belgians, we invented fries so we’ll tell you how to properly eat them

Jan asking for Mayo, since there is only Ketchup available at the self service. The lady behind the counter did not know what was happening, the guy had obviously seen pulp fiction and realized that we were those f*cking Belgians.

Fun fact: we ordered a regular drink with our burgers instead of the large one. But it’s a take-it-yourself system and you get free refills. So… what? People pay just to be able to delay standing up and walking 2m?

Just to illustrate how lazy people are. This burgerjoint does free refills, yet they still ask you whether you would like a regular or large drink… So it is perfectly normal for people to be too lazy to get up, walk 2m (sorry 7ft) and get a refill

First try at American burger and fries… Omg SOOO YUMMY!

Onwards towards the bars. We hit a sports bar first (the Ale house). The amount of TV’s there is insane!

Just to give you how many Tv’s in a 180 (not even 360). You cannot NOT look at a screen

I went for the beer with one of the coolest names I’ve ever seen on a beer bottle: Founders Dirty bastard (the only 8% beer around) while Jaana kept the St Paddy’s spirit high with green beer.

We got a taste of the general super-friendlyness of Americans when a drunk guy called George randomly started talking to us and we ended up talking to him and his awesome friends Bob and Eric for an hour. We then ordered a second drink and after 5 minutes someone heard us talking and wnated to know where we were from and we talked to them for about an hour. It was very easy to make friends and meet new people. Very nice experience.

We then went out with our Roommate Christian and his friends, to a bar called ‘Midtown’.