We failed to eat breakfast (again) so were soon ravenous and in need of food! We headed to Society Hill which is a quirky street full of cool shops and cafes, here we stumbled upon ( literally, stumbled - the heat here is intense!) a little family run Greek cafe which turned out to be a complete gem!
We got fresh juice made from a mixture of fruits of our choice to accompany a huuuge platter of chicken , houmus, rice and salad. Just the job!
Full from our greek feast we decided that wandering around in 34 degree heat was not going to be fun, especially with such high humidity. So of course, we found the nearest Jewish museum!
The National Museum of American Jewish History was amazing and so interesting, one striking piece from the museum was a video based on letters written by Jews who made the journey over to America. Photographs were projected onto a screen of the people whose letters were being read out, the screen resembled scattered letters which also represented the waves of the ocean. Very cool.
By late afternoon we were all Jew'd out so headed back to see what the craic was at the hostel. Tonight was pub crawl night - excellent!
The room was packed full of travellers talking about 'gap yahs' and such, the hostel staff were topping up bottles and mixers of all sorts! Sparks and I filled up on gin (standard) and made our way into the mix of travellers for a bit of bantah.
We soon met Liz and Tom, both Brits traveling around. Liz is from Hertfordshire and was filling us in on her amazing travels around the world. Tom on the other hand was from Yorkshire, and thats all we found out haha! We were soon joined by Jessie, a Scottish girl from our dorm. Within minutes we had created quite the British invasion.
A couple of drinks and a lot of laughs later Tim, our wonderful pub crawl guide who works at the hostel rounded everyone up before heading to the first bar.
This is where thinks get a bit fuzzy... To summarise:
There was inbetweeners esk dancing, some bumping and grinding, proposals, Britney and lots and lots of drinks...
Its here that my memory is clear, after the last bar Tim persuaded us to go to a transsexual bar. Well, me, Amy, Liz and Jessie were game from the get go but Tom took some convincing. We somehow managed to convince a few other groups of people to join us so all hopped into taxis headed to the bar.
We arrived at the bar to find Jessie had disappeared with the Scottish lads and Liz was wandering around crying 'Im gonna chunder!' - fantastic!
I turned into head nurse with Sparks and Tom as my assistants, though we were all pretty drunk so all we managed to do was direct Liz to a bin and grab cups of water.
Once Liz had de-toxified (for the most part) we thought it best to head home.
Back at the hostel Amy took on the mission of getting Liz to bed, which was pretty amusing as Liz was very sure of what she needed and how it was going to happen, even giving us a briefing of the layout of her dorm before we took her to bed.
If only we knew how we'd feel when we woke up...
Holy Moly.
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