The Great Wine Race

Having survived the weekend of Beale Street Music Fest, thought I'd get back to blogging but let me tell you... this past weekend was all about survival with tornados, and storms and the annual mud fest. More on that soon, for now, last Sunday's the Great Wine Race!

The first event on the day of the Great Wine Race is the Queen of the Vine contest that takes place in the Pepsi Pavilion and features beautiful girls from various restaurants and bars around the city. Muck Sticky, Kevin Kane were among the judges of the competition.


And the winner of the 2010 Queen of the Vine contest is... Elizabeth Sears - Mesquite Chop House (Southaven, MS)


The grape stomping contest is next and Muck Sticky even joined in competing for the New Daisy. Muck is an avid Twitter user so I asked him to pose for a TwitPic I posted right from the event.


And finally... the Great Wine Race! Waiters and waitresses from various restaurants and bars compete in a race down Beale Street with a tray of wine glasses and wine bottles... you spill, you lose (or are penalized anyway). The winning team in the competition happened to be the team I took a picture of on Friday while practicing for the event. Great job Spindini!


The rains started to come down on us hard so we ran from Beale Street to take refuge in the Flying Saucer where Gary Smith was about to have his 13th Plate Party! Great guy we met the night before at BrewFest and famous amongst the Flying Saucer community!


Oh yeah, I also scored two more badges on foursquare. The second one has been broken in the foursquare system for a long time as I've been to Grizzlies games where there were at least 3 girls checked in. A bunch of us got this badge that day.