Cocktailed!

Several of The Colonel's associates came over last night after a retirement party, and continued the festivities down in the lodge. This was a wonderful, impromptu "shakedown cruise" for the lodge, as Amtrak folks are a resourceful bunch, and most of them have tended bar at one time or another. And ALL of them have extensive drinking experience.

For the most part, it functioned really quite well: I realized that we need to stock mixers, and the bar really needs a dump bucket, but those are small things, easily fixed. The big challenge will be to find some way to get access to the outdoors (for the smokers) It's a daylight basement, so it shouldn't be that tough.

I would have taken some artsy after-the-party pictures but, they being Amtrak people, they are all as manic about cleaning up as the Colonel, so you would never know anything even happened down there.