Iremerican

One of things that we enjoy most about traveling is people watching. Yep we sound like creepers, but everyone does it, we are just admitting it. So after getting a semi- nice sleep Friday night (actually let us rephrase that, it was a pretty bad night’s sleep), we headed out to town.

So first you may be wondering why we were not able to sleep. Well it all comes down to the beds. They were plastic and as Brittany says, “When beds are plastic it just makes you want to piss all over them.”(Explanation: no, really don’t have one on this). So with the beds being plastic, sleep was limited and since Kristen couldn’t sleep, she actually saw her first fight that night outside her window where a guy literally pushed a woman right into the middle of the streets, but that really has nothing to do with the story at hand…

So anyways after our interesting night of basically no sleep because of the plastic beds, we headed out to the city to see if we could find the better half of Belfast. However, as we stepped outside we realized how absolutely freezing outside it was and although we were all for exploring the city we settled on going into the stores, trying on shoes, and listening to Christmas music and enjoying the warmth. Nevertheless before completely quitting our adventure of walking the city and “acting” like we were really shopping, when in reality we were in their stores’ just to steal their heat, we did go into the center square where there was a Christmas festival and we drank not only real hot chocolate, but also split a kangaroo burger (very chewy, but good).

After hopping from store to store for awhile, we ended up going to a mall where we could stay warm for more than five minutes at a time and that is where we ended up sitting at a café for probably more than three hours just people watching and finding some interesting observations.

So here goes what we think of the Northern Ireland folk- they are pretty much American except ten years behind us when it comes to style. But in all seriousness, in general, Ireland is pretty much American.  The guys our age wear a lot of Abercrombie and Hollister... a little weird. They all use a lot of hair products whether it is hair gel, hair dye, or hair spray. The girls wear a lot of make-up. And the sad and not so kind observation that we kept on making the most is the Irish people we were seeing were just average. No one was particularly attractive. Harsh? Yes, and it probably isn’t entirely true, but we just wanted to share a little of our people watching experience with you!