His Take: St. Patty's Day! What do we do?!? DRINK! OK so Ariana was having a rough day and really wanted to go for a drink, like really bad, so being the wonderful boyfriend I am (and frankly you don't really need to twist my arm to go for a drink) we went for a drink. I suggested we go to The Alligator Lounge. I will start by saying this, the first time I went to The Alligator Lounge, I HATED IT!!! But the more I went, it grew on me and I really like it there now. Little did we know that Monday nights at the Alligator Lounge is TRIVIA NIGHT! The way it works here is teams of however many players answer 4 rounds of trivia, and the top 3 scores win a prize. 1st prize was a $30 bar tab, 2nd prize was a $15 bar tab, and 3rd prize was a grab into the mystery bag. Today being St. Patty's Day, all the questions revolved around the Irish and St. Patty's Day. This trivia game was awesome. Also in between the trivia rounds they ask shot questions and random prize questions. Name the artist who was nominated for three awards or something like that! GREEN DAY!! Winner winner chicken dinner, I won me a free green "bite me" T shirt! The coolest thing about The Alligator Lounge is that with every beer or alcoholic beverage you buy they give you a free coupon for one mini personal pie of pizza (toppings extra). I mean the pizza is not great, but when you are drinking and having a good time, free fresh made pizza is a nice touch. I had a special type of a loaded corona, which I have named a Lee Corona (after the bartender who first made it for me). A Lee Corona consists of a regular corona but you fill the neck with Bacardi orange and orange juice. give it a mix and bam, a new twist on a corona! It's basically a corona with a shot of alcohol in it! A few of these and I promise you you will be off your ass. Team #hashtag signed up for trivia and boy did we enjoy ourselves. The rounds got a little difficult but it was cool. They asked all kinds of questions from music and bands to questions about Lucky Charms cereal! After sticking it out through the whole game Team #hashtag came in second place! There was a couple there that was also playing trivia that we became friends with because each team switches papers in order to grade the answers. Ariana and I headed over there just to kill some time and next thing you know we were there for a few hours enjoying shots and drinks. After winning our $15 bar tab, we treated the other couple to a shot in celebration with us! We left here pretty drunk and had a good time. We also enjoyed quite a few pizzas!!! The Alligator Lounge continues to grow on me, and we will definitely head back. For a random Monday night (well it was St. Patty's Day) we had a great time, always is when it's date night!!!
Her Take: Monday Blues, I was having a bad day- one of those days where you just need a nice, cold beer to relax you. I had class till 5 and asked Nicky if he wanted to meet me in the city for a drink after he got out of work. I had completely forgot that it was St. Patrick's Day soooo bad idea! When I got home I asked him instead if we could grab a drink around the neighborhood later on after dinner and he said yes. I REALLY needed that drink! Nicky suggested Alligator Lounge and I said yea sure! We had been to Alligator Lounge a few times, its like a neighborhood dive bar with a brick oven that holds activities each day of the week- nothing fancy, just a hangout spot and it just so happened that Monday night is trivia night! We came on the perfect day! We arrived at around 8 o'clock for an early drink so we could get home early as well. Of course it was packed but luckily we found a spot at the bar. Nicky got a loaded Corona, with Stoli orange and orange juice in the neck and I started with a Lagunitas IPA. With each drink you get, you receive a ticket for a free pizza, yes that's right free pizza with each drink!!
The solo lady at the bar got up and left so we quickly took her seat and the one next to it and just in time for Trivia! The host (with an awesome game show voice) handed out papers to fill in our teamname, the #hashtags, and our answers and told us that the questions would be related to St. Patty's Day and the color green. There was a whole round on irish artists and we had to guess the bands and the song title from a few seconds played of the song. We were awesome at this round, we listen to a wideeee variety of music ;) (U2 and the Cranberries I love ya!!) In between rounds the host asks questions were you just need to shout out the answer and who ever shouts it first wins a free shot or free green t-shirt that says "bite me." The answers had to include the color green and the last question was who was nominated in the tony awards or something? Nicky shouted out GREENDAY!!! and he won the t-shirt!! of course he did, as if he needed any more tshirts! But yay him! :)
Nicky ordered another Loaded Corona and I got a Stella Artois and then he went and got two pizzas and we attacked them as we answered the trivia questions. And to be honest, the pizza wasn't bad at all!
Good thing we wanted to be home by 10:30, it was 10 and we still had 2 more rounds left, we weren't going anywhere!! at the end we had to switch papers with the team next to us, and the couple we switched with were such nice people and they said they were rooting for us! We handed in our papers and the host started from 14th place, saying the number of points and the team names! He was at 3rd place and still had not called our team's name, we made it to the top 3!! Turns out we won second place, which meant we won a $15 bar tab!! yay!! The first thing we did was tell the bartender we won 2nd place and that we wanted 4 shots of whiskey, two for us and two for the sweet couple next to us! They were surprised but happy. After that we decided it was time to go home! Nicky had work in the morning and I had to go home some time right? We stumbled drunkenly home and laughed at the night we had, it was a fun unexpected night, those are always the best!!
Alligator Lounge is always a good time and its always a good choice when you're bored at home or when you really just NEED A BEER!! You'll meet cool people, have great and cheap drinks, eat decent pizza that's FREE and have lots of laughs!
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