Celebration Time, Come on!

Yeah, you know the song, sing along!   ....stop.

Last Friday we tipped our beer glasses en masse to honour Jeff's 40th.  And the crazy old man actually gave his best shot to keep up with all the youngsters.   And speaking of "best shot," he even had a few shots, too.  Well, he tried to, anyway.

Jeff and Maylia started celebrating early with dinner at one of the few Korean restaurants in Prague.  To really make it a big celebration, we went for samgyopsal - where we cook the pork strips on our grill and fill up the lettuce leaves.  So, so, so good.  And then off for beers...

The pub that we went to was called, appropriately enough, The Pub.  Remember in a previous post we said we'd be doing some competitive drinking?  That's what The Pub is all about.

The Pub is like a sports bar, but the sport is drinking.  Each table seats a group, ~6-8 people.  (We reserved 2 tables.)  Each table has its own draft taps and LCD display which tallies how many liters you've poured.  In fact, at each table, you can monitor up to 10 different drinkers.  That's the drinking part.   Then there's the massive scoreboard at the head of the restaurant that shows each table's standing for that Pub.  And...your table's standing across all Pubs (12) across the Czech Republic.   It took us a few hours as a group just to get on the scoreboard....tough work competing with Czechs!  We think it's an idea that would go over HUGE in the US or Canada.  It was a fun atmosphere and was one of the few times we ever witnessed total strangers here interacting.  Made for a good time.

We had the camera out toward the end, so we'll post a few of the group pics.

Roberto, Jeff, Maylia and Kristen
A pic of Veronica, Matthias and Robert0.  (And some of the scoreboard)
Kristen's husband, Ondrej, runs a screen-printing business and had a sportsy polo made for Jeff: "Jeff 40"
Some of the fine women there ... Ali, Claudia, Maylia and Karen