As you know, 2010 is declared my year of living outside the box or outside my comfort zone.  Basically the year of doing all things new and exciting and maybe even a little scary.  Does this include sky diving, race car driving and rock climbing – yes!  Does this include speed dating, blind dating and online (yuk) dating – potentially! Anything goes as long as it’s new to me and/or sends a small chill up my spine to think about.

I decided to start light and I signed up for a whisky tasting class, by my self.  I showed up 5 minutes early to a room of 13 men and one other woman (and thought to myself, brilliant!).  The beauty of an alcohol based class is that no matter how awkward the students are at first, as more glasses are poured, more interactions ensue.  So this night we were tasting 9 different Scotch Whiskies starting with sweeter “Highland” scotches and ending with peppery “Island” scotches.

Now I don’t have to tell you that I have NO savory taste buds so the only whisky I could taste and enjoy were the first few. As the drinks got stronger and peatier (think: liquid kielbasa) the less I could savor.  In fact, towards the end it all tasted like some flavorless warm fluid to me.  Naturally my classmates didn’t know this so each time the instructor poured another drink they’d look to we women for the first taste and then proceed to take their drink.  And each time I’d shoot it back in one swift move and say “mmmm smooth, with a slight vanilla undertone”.  I know it’s a little twisted but it totally cracked me up.

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