journaling: enabled

Well, I haven’t posted in a bit, but I thought tonight was worthy of a post. flutterbyefred and I took liz4jc4ever out for her 21st birthday. Original intention had been to have “just a few” drinks. I had one and plenty of water (being the DD). Flutterbyefred had a few as did her friend Lisa. Liz4jc4ever on the otherhand … celebrated her 21st in style. The first bar we went to had a nice bartender who decided that he had 3 shots that Liz had to try. I think they were spread out about 10 minutes apart, with the interim space occupied by a pair of midori sours. This all happened in the space of 35 minutes. Needless to say Liz was feeling a bit happy.
At the next bar we went to, Liz decided that she *had* to have a Mediterranean Iced Tea. The bartender wasn’t familiar with it but she told him how to make it. Basically the same alcoholic ingredients as a Long Island, plus Blue Caraco, lemon juice, lime juice and 7-up. The one she got was on the strong side and left no doubt that it was alcohol. We added more 7-up when she had taken care of 1/3 of the glass. This took a while to drink, and when done we decided that we should probably get Liz to bed (with plenty of water beforehand).
Thus ended a fun evening. I hope Liz doesn’t have too bad a hangover in the morning or end up throwing up. I’m really looking forward to Saturday night. She finally got to find out what we were doing … Fred and I are taking her to Pizza Lucé’s, then to see Gaelic Storm at the Fine Line in Minneapolis with beldurnik and czar_sonja, then returning to Hammond for some bar-hopping goodness (Hammond ‘cuz I have plenty of things to crash on and am only 1 block from the bars).