Irish & Argentineans, oh my!

As expected, St. Patrick's day became a much bigger deal than we thought.

Sunset on the ride home...

There are a few Irish pubs in Nurnberg, but we all headed to O'Sheas for the night. Basically if you want to meet English speakers in Germany, my advise is to go out on St. Patrick's day. Going forward, I will not wear clothing that announces I may be from the U.S. so to avoid answering a lot of dumb questions from people you don't want to chat with.



Andi, giving 120% as usual.

Neilo & Andi

After about an hour standing, we finally scored a booth near the entrance, which was key since every 5 feet into O'Sheas went up 10 degrees. The live Irish band was soaked as they were stuck in the back.

Lucas, Suzie, Andy

The 'conversation starting' shirt...

Another Andy and Dangerous Dave.

This is what happens when you sit at the end of the table...human sponge. Yes, and the ability to show of your pillates moves.

Andy, Dave, and Trevor

Tevor & I

As can be expected at an St. Pats outing, eventually the talk turned to setting up fights. Not serious fights, but "if we were going to set up a boxing tournament who would we pair up". Not sure if these boxing matches will ever happen, but the pairs, announcers, agents, and promoters have already been lined up. Rumour is that we'll add it into the list of activities on Nurnberg Olympic day also called Sunday Fun Day, perhaps following 'make your own boat and float it down the river'. Basically we don't have enough to do here....and are left to our own creativity.

Checking arm length to make sure this would be a fair fight.

This is Kevin. He's scottish, but likes to dress up like he's Irish many times a year. (see pics from Halloween, he was the Leprauchan)

Similar to the boxing match, the next challenge became who's most flexible...

Even Andy got in on the action.

"If I was really Irish, I'd always pose like this.... " Not sure what that means Kev thinks about Irish...

Trevor has a funny look on his face because we were just joined by the Argentinean National Rugby team. They were in town being fitted for their new adi uniforms. Trevor and I became the Nurnberg tour guides.

Miguel is on the left.

Then they started doing the Irish jig, cause that's what your supposed to do on St. Patrick's day.

This guy is the David Beckham of Argentinean Rugby, Felipe Contepomi. We chatted about his UK professional rugby team, his three year old daughter, and why he likes being sponsered by adi. When i proposed getting his daughter hooked up w/ some puma kids shoes, he declined saying it would be 'disloyal' lol.