Cocktail Hour | OG Honey Bee
In our younger, childless, drinking days, my husband and I once enjoyed a long layover in Las Vegas. Had we been much younger and wilder, we would have perhaps ventured outside the airport and enjoyed a casino or two. Instead, we bellied up to the bar at the American Express Lounge and took full advantage of the free top-shelf cocktails. My husband will still tell anyone headed that way to stop by that lounge, which he fondly refers to as the "best bar in Las Vegas."
Free drinks aside, the place really was delicious. And it introduced us to my husband's favorite bourbon drink. At that airport bar in Vegas, the drink is called the Gold Rush. Here, in my husband's home-bar, he calls it the "OG Honey Bee."
It's a rare drink that is both deliciously refreshing and yet totally appropriate to drink by the fire. I'm not even a bourbon drinker, and I'll take a Honey Bee any day.
Bottoms Up!
I fell in love with the beach soon after I fell in love with my husband; his affinity for sandy feet and salty hair being infectious as they were. Despite growing up more poolside than seaside, he made a convert out of me- persuading me with clambakes, beachside corn-hole, summer sails, and sunset picnics replete with our favorite wines.
And while corn-hole and sails come a little less often now that we are a party of three, the sunset picnic still remains a weekly tradition. Living just a few miles from our local beach, we often throw together an impromptu picnic a few times a week- packing the essentials for a quick an easy weekday date, if only for a glass of wine and quick bite while the sun sets.