Once you reach your mid to late 20’s a few things start to happen-
1) Most of your friends have moved away
2) Most of your friends have gotten married
3) Most of your friends have had kids
You feel your social circle dwindling and you wonder what you can do about it if you meet some of those things, all of those or none. Meetup, it is the best thing I have found. Let me start by saying Meetup isn’t paying me or giving me anything to write this. I actually pay them! I found that as a combination of items 1 through 3 listed above were happening I didn’t have as many people to hang out with. Now this doesn’t mean that we aren’t’ still friends but it does mean we have a bit less in common. I wanted to meet some fun people that I could hang out with and a few fun couples that Mike and I could do dinner with as well. While listening to the radio one day I heard about Meetup, here we are a year later and I run a couples group, belong to a wine group, a book club, and a few women’s groups. In the last year I have meet some of the people who I know hang out with on a regular basis. Tonight I had a couples happy hour, and there were 4 couples and me (since Mike was traveling). 3 of the 4 were new to the group and they were all so nice! I am so glad I found Meetup.
We went to Patrick McGovern’s in St. Paul, it is a traditional Irish Pub. I had a Summit Octoberfest and the traditional fish and chips. Their fish and chips was really good, they use cod and a Guinness Batter but its not too heavy or greasy. I had a beer and about half the chips and felt satisfied after. I would definitely head to Patrick McGovern’s again for a group function and happy hour.
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