Imagine two teams - one male and one female - 20 bottles of alcohol of varying colours - bottles twirling in the air - flying ice cubes - and you have the passenger competition known as the Bar Wars.
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| This is how the professionals do it!! |
The object seems simple enough - bar staff flamboyantly demonstrate how a series of cocktails are constructed and then each team has to duplicate each recipe. The team whose drink most closely resembles the professional bar tenders wins - and at the end of it all - the drinks have to be consumed by the contestants.
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| So that's how it is done!! |
Only problem is - I think that the bar staff spend half their waking hours practising throwing bottles under their knees - around behind their backs - shimmying while they blend ingredients in the shaker - and then theatrically pouring a steady stream of brightly coloured concoctions into glasses from a great height.
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| Battle of the sexes!! |
Unfortunately the passenger contestants haven’t had the same amount of training, so things start to fly when they are let loose with the bottles. Joanne and Garry were selected as contestants and paired against each other - they each had the same recipe but that is where the similarity ended..... creative bottle twirling degenerated into ice throwing to distract the contestants from the task at hand - amid much laughter.
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| Hard at work - a tough job but someone's got to do it |
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| The end result was worth the effort |
In the end, the crowd cheered loudest for the men’s team (a bit biased because they were mostly male) who were duly declared the champions. The prize, if you could call it that, was that each contestant had to drink the concoction they had created.
Tomorrow, we arrive in Honolulu for a late departure at 10.00pm.
Cheers
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