it's a toss up, but the moving gerbil on the green sweater won us over

Now, as you can see, with one horrible sweater after the next, it was nearly impossible to pick the worst of the worst. But what ultimately won us over was the gerbil on the green sweater. It’s battery operated and moves. Or shall we say, shimmies. And with that nifty little accessory, fun loving Sonoma County publicist Nina Laramore scored a free dinner for two at Spoonbar. She actually made the sweater the night before, so kudos to Nina!

For those of you who couldn’t make it, we wanted to share Scott’s recipe for The Lion’s Tail. This holiday cocktail is now featured on the Spoonbar menu, so come on down. Oh, and keep your eye out for the next DIY Cocktail Class featuring Winter Citrus Drinks. Click here for details.

The Lion’s Tail

2 oz Black Maple Hill Bourbon
3/4 oz Fresh Lime Juice
3/4 oz St. Elizabeth Allspice Dram
1/4 oz Agave Nectar
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
Garnish: Lime zest or wheel

Add all ingredients to an empty mixing glass, add enough ice to fill the glass completely, shake hard for 7 seconds, and double strain into a martini or coupe glass.  Garnish with a lime wheel.

Healdsburg makes Jessica feel "shiny."

…that girl.  Jessica DeLasaux.  (Congrats Jessica!)  She looks so happy in her FB profile pic.  And we bet she’ll look even happier when she realizes she won a free Junior Suite @ h2hotel.   (Right Jessica?)  Either way, we’re thrilled for her.  And we’re sure you are too.  Because she’ll be happy for you when YOU win the next contest.

Yes, there will be more contests and chances for our FB followers to win free stuff.  Cocktails, dinners, rooms, etc.  This Mad Libs contest was only the first our giveaways for our loyal fans and ambassadors.  And as you help us spread the word (by suggesting our FB page), and we reach the next milestone, we’ll organize another fun contest for you.  One that YOU WILL (POSSIBLY MAYBE) WIN!!!

Now, the other moment you’ve all been waiting for… our Mad Libs template.  So here it is….

So what this means for our winner is that every time Jessica visits Healdsburg, she gets the sudden urge to SMOKE like a BULBOUS LEMUR.  “Why?” you ask.  Well, it’s really quite simple.  Our town makes her feel SHINY.  The wine, the food, the MAYANS.  Not to mention our new hotel, with our living roof and SHOELACE heated pool.  That’s what you call the icing on the CHALUPA.  This is to say nothing of Spoonbar, of course, and Scott Beattie’s world-famous PLAYMATES.  Oh, how Jessica loves Healdsburg.

Pretty funny, huh?

Speaking of funny… we’ve picked 5 MORE WINNERS for FREE COCKTAILS @ Spoonbar.  This was a more challenging task, as it didn’t involve randomly picking a contestant out of a hat (or HBG Farmers’ Market canvass tote, actually).  Rather, we had to look at all your responses, select from some very VERY funny answers, and whittle it down to what we thought were the five best.  Here they are:

• BEST URGE:  To LIVE like a JUICY COUGAR  (Kristi Detwiler)
• STRANGEST URGE:  To FLOSS like a CRUSTY HAMPSTER  (Michael Bairdsmith)
• BEST ALTERNATIVE ENERGY:  The GOOGLE heated pool  (Heather Coder)
• MOST DISTURBING ALT ENERGY:  The DIAPER heated pool  (Carly Douglas)
• BEST SIDE BUSINESS:  Scott Beattie’s world-famous PERSIAN RUGS  (Amy Karmimipour)

Thanks to everyone for participating.  We hope you had as much fun with this as we did.  Please share our FB page with your friends and we’ll launch another contest real soon. Oh, and for all of our contest winners, please message your h2blogger to redeem your prizes.

Here’s the deal…

• Go to our Facebook Fan page.  (Friend us, if you haven’t yet)
• Leave a reply to the Mad Libs contest post.
• Get your friends to reply too, cause we need at least 100 participants to activate the promotion.
• Sometime this weekend we’ll post the Mad Libs template to this h2blog.
• Hilarity ensues. 

And next week, we will announce the WINNER of the FREE NIGHT in a Junior Suite (Sun-Thurs).  Since Mad Libs is wholly random, it only seems fair that we draw the winner out of a hat.  However, we will post the FIVE FUNNIEST ONES on the h2blog, and offer each of these lucky duckies a pair of celebratory Spoonbar cocktails.  Sound good?