Root Beer Float!!

photo's (from top to bottom): A&W Root Beer and Vanilla Swedish Glace mixed up for float, Johnny going straight for the ice cream, Brighton at night.

Freaking hell. Tonight is the best night ever, because after being in Europe over a year, I have found something I have been craving for the past year and never thought I would ever get on this continent...

....Root Beer!!!

Weird, because I never really drank it back home, (except at Christmas), but since it's not really available here, I've really missed it. I guess Thomas Haynes Bayly was right when he said, "Absence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, Fare thee well". Now you may be thinking , "Did she really just use that quote to reference soda?" Yup. Yes I did. 

I never once saw it when I was living In Ireland, or on my travels around Europe, so I was pleasantly surprised to find it tonight at the Taj Grocery Shop, just down the street from where I am staying in Brighton. I gave some to my South African friend Johnny, but he apparently doesn't share the same respect for the stuff, because he said it tasted like gross medicine. 

So what else did I do but make a Root Beer float! 

p.s. I threw in a pic of Brighton at night too just because it's pretty.