Girl's night out

Last winter, my friend Robin and I started having girl's night on Mondays. We'd go out to this cute diner downtown called Poole's, and bring our crochet projects to work on while we caught up on the week's gossip over dinner and drinks. Eventually, we started inviting other friends to join us, and before we knew it, we had a full-fledged girl's night on our hands.

So now, on most Monday nights, you'll find us with our lady friends (Kiona, Kristen, Leeann, and Michelle, to name a few), crammed into a booth at the back of the restaurant, discussing boys, business, and other fun girly things.

We recently hit the big time, when a nice lady from the local newspaper came to visit. (Apparently, word of our girl's night out had been getting around town.) She wrote a nice piece on us for the paper, which you can read here if you'd like.

Last night when we showed up, we sat down in our usual spot and opened our menus, expecting to choose our eats and drinks from the familiar list of our usuals. But instead, we found an unexpected surprise. The entire drink menu had been changed, and each of the new selections was somehow craft-related! The managers thought it was so nice that we got a write-up in the paper that they dedicated the menu to us. Aw.



Poole's is known for its ever-changing drink specials menu, which invariably reflects recent events in pop culture or world news. For example, when the Olsen twins turned 18, the drinks were all named things like "barely legal" and whatnot, except their names were wittier - that's my lame attempt at remembering. (Perhaps I shouldn't drink the drinks so often, so I'd have some brains left to remember them with! Yikes!)

Anyways... We were all pleased and tickled that they thought to commemorate our weekly girl's nights by dedicating the next two week's drink specials to us. A few of us even ordered 'em, and boy were they tasty!