Posh vs. Pub

So tonight, in honor of Katia's boyfriend arriving from Italy, we decided to get a group together and go out on the town. There ended up being eight of us: Francine, Katia, Katia's boyfriend, Katia's other Italian friend, Alex, Ary, Leo, and me. We first went to a bar called Cloud 23, which sits on top of the Hilton hotel and is in the tallest building in Manchester. Obviously, it gets it's name from the fact that it's on the 23rd floor. I'd never been so high before. It was very posh, and REALLY expensive. The cocktails were at minimum £9.50 (which is $14.65). And the mocktails were at least £8 ($12). Needless to say, I just got a coke for £2.50. Francine got a "Little Fluffy Cloud" mocktail, and for some reason that was really funny (I tried it though, and it was really good.) But the view was AMAZING! At 23 stories up, we could see everything!

Note: I didn't take this picture and I stole it from their website

Since Cloud 23 was so expensive, we only had the one round of drinks and decided to go somewhere cheaper. And so we went to The Salisbury, which is a small pub half hidden under a railway station. (I don't have any pictures, sorry.) And there the drinks were way cheaper, I had a Jack and Coke for £3.50. While drinking, we got into a deep conversation and I tried to explain why we Americans love our guns so much. I don't think they completely understood (and I wasn't that great at explaining it), but that's ok. We were just brought up way different.