Beer Bust

I had another one of those welcome to Europe moments today....

I got an email inviting me to a beer bust in the cafeteria at the office I work at for 6pm tonight. This is not something that seemed normal to me. Prude American offices would have nothing to do with beer in the workplace. So, as far as I was concerned, I was obviously mis-reading the email.

6pm comes around and I figured that I might as well check it out.

I walk to the cafe with a couple of my co-workers and sure enough, there are a bunch of people drinking beer and eating pizza!

I walk into the cafe itself and walk up to one of the stations and there are about 200 open bottles of good old Budweiser (yeah Lou!)just sitting there for the taking. I take a couple and move onto the next station with a bunch of different pizza. I chose a slice of corn and mushroom pizza (they put corn on everything here). I went and sat down with my mates.....this was really happening!

So, turns out that drinking beer at work is perfectly ok.....free beer at that!

I just got home and now I am watching rugby.

The six nations tournament has been going on the last couple of weeks: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, and Italy have some sort of round robin situation.

Of course, rugby is one of those beautiful European sports that Americans know nothing about. Rugby, football (soccer), cricket, snooker, and darts are the European standards.

I have been watching the tournament regularly just because it is cool! I have learned two things watching these rugby matches:

1. This sport is brutal - if you get hurt, the medic comes out and your team just keeps playing while you nearly die.

2. Italy has no business competing in this tournament. The suck.....bad.

France just beat Wales. Poor Welsh.

Oh well. Liz comes soon....only one more lonely weekend to get through!!

Cheers!