Three Prairie Fires to the Wind

In order to celebrate my first night of twenty-seveness, Holly, Andi and I headed out for a beer at Uisce, the one authentic Irish pub in town. And as luck would have it, it was Quiz Night. So we promptly got our game faces on and prepared to win team A HA! some respect. However, as it turned out, we were only in time for the second half* and the questions were a bit tough for our inebriated brains (or at least mine anyway…). So we were only able to get 10 out of 26 questions correct. (Although, let the record show we only answered 10 of the 26 questions…so really, we got 100%.)

Post quiz, we decided to top-er-off with a round of prairie fires. Andi had never had one, I was keen to try it again, and Holly is just a veteran stud. So we asked Logan (our new BF…aka the bar tender) if he had any tequila. He promptly replied, “ahh, yeah” (honestly, a true valley girl would have been proud). We immediately followed that up with a round of giggles and (eventually) a request for Tabasco. Again, he replied in the affirmative. Alright then, good sir, we’d like 3 prairie fires. “Uh....for yourselves?!?” He’d never heard of anyone ordering such a drink of their own volition. “Are you sure?” Logan asked, “It’s like taking a shot for 5 minutes.” Hahhahahaha! If we weren’t determined already, this sealed the deal. Though he didn't like it, he quickly whipped out our drinks. We toasted to turning 27 and prepared to kiss the sun. But as it turned out, he was kind to us and they went down easy-peasy. We didn’t even feel like breathing fire immediately afterward. Instead we universally responded with, “Pffft! That was child’s play!”**

All in all, a great first day of being 27. In fact, it was so great, we're going to go back next Tuesday and do it all again.

*As it turns out, there are two separate (but equal) halves to Trivia Night. And wouldn’t you know it, one of the questions from the first half was, “What group is famous for the hit 867-5309?” If you frequent this blog at all, then you know I was quite dismayed to have missed my opportunity at that little piece of trivia. I shouted out the answer anyway, even though it had no bearing on the outcome whatsoever.

**Apparently Holly could still feel the shot for another 5 minutes, but my constitution had no complaints whatsoever.