Drinks Around America!

We were thinking Saturday night for Drinks Around America! but then our friend and soon-to-be roommate Jenny already had plans and didn't want to be left out, so on Friday morning, we began inviting people for Friday night. Eventually, we even began to tell them the time and location, which was Champps. Eight of us showed up, a pretty good group for something organized on such short notice, and Champps turned out to be an excellent choice for reasons I will explain to you.

Here some of us are:

Jenny and me

Jimmy and Krystal

Not pictured: Holly and a brave friend of hers who didn't know any of the rest of us and the even braver Lynn and Jim who knew none of us at all. Lynn and I follow each other on Twitter and have conversed some through that. She answered my Twitter call for drink suggestions, so I invited her and she and Jim came and, I believe, had a good time. They were both enormously helpful in getting through the list of drinks I'd brought.

Oh yes, a list. Holly googled "drinks with states or cities in the name" (or something along those lines) and I made a list, including ingredients for those we hadn't heard of and thus, weren't sure the bartender would have either.

Did I check them off as we went? Yes, I did. We didn't actually need any of the recipes since the Champps bartender was on top of things. Not only that, but our waitress (Claire, I think) thought what we were doing was fun and came back with a list of even more drinks for us.

Claire was more than compensated for her helpfulness in terms of our tips. We purchased a lot of drinks from Claire.

Cape Cod, Shiner Bock, Sam Adams Boston Lager

Lynchburg Lemonade, Colorado Bulldog

Alaska Pipeline, Vegas Bombs, Alabama Slammers

Which is probably more than enough photos of drinks. You'll just have to take my word for the Long Island Iced Tea, Texas Tea, Blue Hawaiians, Malibu Breeze, and Washington Apples. Meaning that we covered eleven states, ranging from Massachusetts to Hawaii, and most regions in between.

I am sorry to tell you that we neglected the Midwest with our drinks. Champps didn't seem to have Milwaukee's Best, nor was anyone inclined to drink it, and we couldn't think of anything else Midwestern in name. However, the food we ordered was cheese fries and ice cream pie, so there was a lot of dairy there. Hello, Wisconsin!

All in all, it was a very good time and I appreciate my friends' (real life and invisible internet alike) willingness to go along with the weird shit I come up with and then name and then invite them to participate in. Very cool, everybody. And oh so patriotic.