DOW JONES

I went to a really awesome themed bar last night called...well you guessed it, DOW JONES. It was a medium sized bar and it was not crowded...until about 30 Americans from our program made an entrance. The idea behind this bar is that it is supposed to be like the old New York stock exchange but instead of stock, the drink prices are constantly changing based on what people are ordering. There was a screen with all the most popular drinks and they would either have a red arrow down, a green arrow up, or a blue equals sign. They would always all change at the same time and there would be a flurry of ordering to get the best deals. One of my friends kept driving up the price of long islands all night haha.

Reality Check: In all reality, the drinks were all fluctuating about 50 cents to a Euro the whole night, but it felt like we were making the best deals of our lives.

The highlight of the night would have to be when the drink market crashed. These yellow sirens started flashing and all the drinks dropped to super low prices. This happens when people have not been ordering enough drinks. Everyone started screaming in the bar and flooded the bartender with orders. Super cool...I am hoping that there is something like that in the states so that I can hit it up when I get home.