Whiskey Business

Good drinks, good food, meeting tons of new people, and catching up with some oldies.
Thank you David S for setting up another UYE. This time I was able to stick around and eat, drink, party and bullsh*t, party, and bullsh*t, wanna party and bullsh*t.
Everyone else’s reviews pretty much covered the festivities!
Enjoy the pictures! :D

Thankfully no one got frisky at this event, but I could say we did get a little «Whiskey»! Hat tipped to David S once again for coordinating yet another successful outdoors event! With the event taking place at Western Trails, I could certainly tell you that event the venue was themed nicely for the occassion.
A big thumbs up to Jade for the great mixers and the Whiskey 101 class. Unfortunately, I spent more time listening to her school us on Whiskey. I kept trying to hunt her down for her great concoctions, but of course, a busy bartender is always so popular with the crowd. But what luck! Thank you David S for my great Whiskey Sour! I babysat that drink, cradled it, and all… lol
My favorite dishes:
Nelson and Sylvia’s bread pudding! Asides from Chef Marc’s squid ink risotto, Nelson and Sylvia’s bread pudding are one of those dishes where you just kind of stop what you’re doing and ponder about how delish the damn thing was, and how that will probably the last time you’ll ever taste anything so beautiful. NOW THAT, is what I call a one night stander.
Regina and Earl’s dirty rice! Yum yum yum! I’ve had a phobia for dirty rice only because most I’ve tasted just doesn’t have that «dirty» quality I look for in dirty rice. This dirty rice however, had enough spice, seasoning, and meat in it! Straight ddddduuurrrtttyyy up in that mo fo!
The Jimbalaya I think was by far the best hit! Great spice to it and certainly filled with goodies and surprises in them. Definitely a mouth full of southern explosion. It was so good that I think it was the only thing that was scraped clean.
Kevin’s BBQ ribs were
too! Ok ok. I’d name all the other dishes too, but this review would require a hardback and probably a preface as well…
Either way, it was great once again to enjoy the company of the great Elites! I love that everyone has THE BEST sense of humor and are just an outgoing bunch! It’s never a dull moment with them, and I’m personally thankful to be able to just feel so comfortable under my skin as the J-​tern. I hope that one day… when I’M AS OLD AS YOU GUYS I’LL BE JUST AS FUN! I’m KIDDING!!!

Thank you to everyone who came and contributed to a fun night. Yet again we had prepared too much food, but the ten bottles of whiskey/​bourbon was just enough. For those who expressed interest but could not make it, we missed you. There will be more to come. From the mouth of the Loitering and Libations Committee, we proclaim that the next event will be Beers & BBQ.
These events are meant to be an opportunity to enjoy the beautiful recreational facilities of Nevada, gather with friends, making new ones, and gorge on delicious food and drinks. Thank you to Jade, Anthony, JTern, William, Ben, and RJ for bringing all the components for our drinks. Jim and Lindsey, it was nice to meet you and for the Jimbalaya. It was a big hit. Regina, Earl, Tony, JiEun, Christie, Sarah Marie, Lily, and Kevin provided us with so much food that we had to beat off critters from feasting on our bounty. Another big hit that cannot go without mentioning is the amazing bread pudding by Nelson and Sylvia. If I did not have to worry about my weight, I would have devoured a whole pan by myself.
As I said earlier, be on the lookout for the next event. Friday, June, 13 will be an event for the books. With each new gathering, they are only going up in quality and fun.

Much like Tom Cruise dancin’ in a white collared shirt wearin nuthin else but a pair of socks… this Whiskey Business was definitely just as HOT, HOT, HOT!
I came prepared to EAT!!! …from Kevin’s ribs, to Regina & Earl’s dirty rice, to Jieun’s bibimbap tofu skins («bidimbidap» as stated by Christie, lol), to David’s potato salad, to Christie’s whiskey-​doused banana pudding… everything was DEELISH! :-9 And the Vegas heat already had me melting… but thanks to Nelson’s Bread Pudding with Caramel & Vanilla ice cream… it definitely hit the spot!
A shout out to David S. for setting up yet another awesome summer get-​together…
Golly, u sure r gon make me miss all of yalls!
Btw, I LOVE how this «Whiskey Business» is featured on the Unilocal’s home page as a Hot New Business. Ha!
Nuff said.

Cheers to good times at the Western Trails Park. This was a fun UYE full of drinking, conversing, and just hanging out with some crazy Unilocalers. There was everything from delicious food and bomb dranks to intern dance off, random graduates burning their school works and roach attacks. There were even tiny dogs. What an evening, perfect environment once the sun went down. We got to do this again, I’m there.
I’m watching Hangover Part II right now so I figure right a review about drinking. LOL

There is a fondness in my heart for all of the things surrounding this event: Whiskey, Southern Comfort Food and the folks who attended: both friends old and new.
David is to be commended for planning and organizing the soirée and ensuring there was a balanced distribution of savory, libation & dessert items. We commandeered most of the park with the many offerings Unilocalers brought along. All of the savory items were delicious, my stand-​outs include: jammin jambalaya, spinach dip, Jieun’s Korean chiarashi rice pillows (Lolz authentic name) dirty rice… Of course Nelson delivered an off the hook dessert with bread pudding, caramel, strawberries and ice cream.
I apologize for drowning my Banana Pudding in too much Makers Mark :(but hope the Broccoli Apple Cider Slaw redeemed me a bit. Jade proved to be a master mixologist and I enjoyed several of her tasty drinks and hysterical personality. Props to her man Scott aka Jeremy for being super cool, too. There was plenty of varieties of various whiskeys (special thanks to Anthony for bringing some fine selections) and mixers, bitters, herbs, simple syrup, sugar cubes, maraschino cherries: better stocked than many bars!
Having just found out earlier in the day that I’d become a part of the Elite Squad had me on a natural high! It was great to celebrate with some new faces and with the first Unilocalizzles who warmly welcomed me @ Sangria: David (who valiantly de-​roached my bags I foolishly left on ground in dark) J-​tern, Jieun, Paolo, Anthony, Tony, Lily! my ill sis Sarah-​Marie, Kevin & the dynamic duo of Nelson & Sylvia!
There were again laugh till we cried moments, tattoo sharing, gathering around the firepit with random HS kids, and an epic battle between the Terns, with Ben sporting Kanye-​esque multi color glasses dancing off against Janel’s light saber/​phallic weapon that kept popping up in strange places & on different peeps.
The park was cute and lent itself well to our intentions. Super happy to have another great UYE memory and look forward to the next gatherings.

Another alcohol infused UYE in the books! Big Mahalo to David S. for hosting, and everyone else who came out for another great gathering at Western Trails Park. I arrived a little late as I was coming from work, but wifey was so awesome and helpful going back home and picking up my contributions for our get together.
What a great spread we had! Jim’s Jumbalaya, Earl’s Dirty Rice, BBQ ribs (from Kevin??), David’s Potato Salad, and Black Forest Trifle, Christie’s Slaw and Banana Pudding, Jieun’s «Rice Pillows» Sushi, Lily’s Spinach Dip, My Hawaiian Sweet Bread Pudding with bourbon Caramel and MORE!!!
I didn’t try anything from the mixologists at the bar area, but everyone seemed to be enjoying concoctions of all kinds. I will have to make BIGGER containers of agua frescas for our next outing. Both the Cucumber Citrus and Strawberry Hibiscus agua frescas were very refreshing and pretty much gone halfway through the evening.
A bunch of events followed as the night went on:
KUMBAYA AT THE FIRE PIT
We were all gathered by the fire pit «talking story» while a kid comes up to us asking to use the fire pit… Janel then says «we can share the fire pit»… don’t know if thats the answer that they were looking for, but that’s the way it was gonna be…(but its pretty warm out!!!) What followed was a burning ritual of sorts by some 10 students of Southwest High School Class of 2012 where they burned EVERY SINGLE PIECE OF HOMEWORK OF THEIR SENIOR YEAR!!! What a trip!!! We stepped to the side, let them do their thing… then we started going down memory lane talking about our high school days, and how LOOOOONG ago they were…
BLACKOUT AT THE PARK
Lights shut out at 10pm… not 11pm as stated on their webpage… boy, was it dark but we stayed anyway for at least another hour before packing it up.
BATTLE OF THE INTERNS
As a tribute to Electric Daisy Carnival, beats were playing (on someone’s phone), and J-​tern starts bustin’ a move with her multi-​colored light up stick… Then out of nowhere, you hear «Oh Yeah???» Bentern busts out his multi-​colored light up glasses and starts jammin’ too! luckily no one was injured as they both were INCHES away from the barbecue grills in the dark…
ATTACK OF THE ROACHES
A gang of roaches mysteriously made their way into Christie’s purse and she screamed bloody murder! David came to the rescue and lots of people were gettin’ the heebie jeebies. These critters didn’t really bother me though. Ever come across
HUGE Hawaiian Flying Cockroaches???
Overall, a great gathering, and keep an eye out for the next one… BREWSKIS AND BBQ!!! ALOHA!!!
Unilocal 365 CHALLENGE-(274/365) «Yelp Takeover at Western Trails»

At first I thought it was just going to be too darn hot to have an event out at a park in the SW that I have never been to before. Even after parking and getting out of the car, I was having some reservations about the intense Las Vegas heat. Luckily the temperature dropped as the sun started to go down, and gusts of wind helped cool us down.
But enough about the weather. There were plenty of whiskey and other bomb non-​alcoholic drinks at the event, plus great home-​made food and desserts. The highlight for me was Nelson Q.‘s homemade bread pudding and caramel sauce, which was fantastic with some vanilla ice cream. His Strawberry and Hisbiscus tea was a hit, and it was gone before everyone had the opportunity to try it.
It was a great event, I only wished that I skipped lunch and can enjoy everything that people brought to the event.
Totally looking forward to the next event in the series: Beers and BBQ. :)