Bottoms Up

After the Three O'Clock ride, as we rode around downtown taking pictures and whatnot, a set of circumstances called us to Margarita-ville.



First of all, though, the light was fantastic. We were having a bit of beer we picked up on the Three O'Clock.



Anyway, as we wound our way back home, looking for Margarita ingredients, we stopped at what turned out to be a heavily fortified liquor store. Behind the bandit barrier there were hundreds of bottles of booze, and while I found a cut-rate tequila the guy behind the glass wall didn't think they had any triple sec. I'm like, There's 1200 bottles back there, what do you mean no triple sec?



But his English and my Spanish couldn't meet and we ended up getting triple sec at another liquor store. And when I went to get limes from a little tienda, they didn't have margarita salt. So that was another stop.



And I thought it'd make a great alley cat race, do a cocktail themed one where people enter Margarita, Martini, Long Island Iced Tea, etc. categories and have to buy each ingredient in a different city or zip code.

Then when they finish there could be a mixology contest to see who mixes the best drink in each category, so everybody wins.



I think this name was already taken, but I thought we could start in the West Bottoms and end up by Observation Park and call it 'Bottoms Up.'