Unholy Thursday

Easter weekend is a big bank holiday weekend. With Good Friday off and Easter Monday off, most people have fled the country to ski or see some sun for this 4 day weekend. With Ben away in the States, there is not a whole lot to do here. We went out for pints after work on Thursday and of course they kicked us all promptly out at midnight since that technically became Good Friday. Some of the ways around not selling alcohol is raffle tickets that if your number is pulled you win a pint, not paying for it. You payed for the raffle ticket, and everyone is a winner. Or some places out in the country will leave the back door open, let you pour your own and mark it down in the ledger so you can come back on Saturday and pay then. There is always a way around the rules! I stopped into the grocery store to pick up some milk and large black curtains where put over all of the alcohol sections and the off license places were of course closed. We were supposed to go up to Belfast for the long weekend, we will just have to wait until next year!