Annie Bailey's

This past Saturday night Heather and I went out in Lancaster city. We dropped Brenna off at grandma's so we could have a date night. We started off and went to a movie, Invincible. We liked the movie. We hadn't been to movie in probably 3 years or so. It's also rare that we even rent a movie. Anyhow, I was a little apprehensive because I find Mark Wahlberg to be annoying in movies. Surprisingly though, he did not fake a South Philly accent. It was a good story, though quite embellished. We don't know if non-Philly viewers will enjoy it as much as we did. Here is a review of the movie if you're interested.

After the movie, I wanted to go get a beer at Annie Bailey's Irish Pub. We got there after a very difficult parallel parking job by myself. I got a pint of Guinness and Heather got a Kaliber (it's a nonalcoholic beer), she's 5 months pregnant. We sat as close as we could to the band playing Irish music. We hit about 10 bars in Chicago back in April in search of Irish music without success. Here we move to Lancaster and stumble upon it the first night we go out. We (mostly me) really enjoy listening to Irish music in the bar setting. I can not bear to listen to it otherwise. We had gone to Ireland in 2001 and it was there that we were first exposed to Irish music. Then again in Las Vegas for my buddy Jamie's wedding at the Nine Fine Irishmen.



Back to Annie Bailey's. I've included a picture from their website so you can see what it looks like inside. I didn't have my camera. After the band finished up at about 10pm, we moved over to the bar to watch the second half of the Notre Dame-Michigan State game. It was ugly. Brady Quinn was not on. By the end of the third quarter, ND was down at least 3 TD's. We decided to leave and call it a night. When we got home, I thought I would check out the final score just for shits 'n' giggles. To my surprise, ND had just gone ahead in the game with under 2 minutes left to play. I kind of wished we had stayed at the bar, but hindsight is always 20/20.