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Green Drinks Boulder at BoCoCo: got your dance pants?

Ah, Green Drinks.

Green Drinks June

Month in and month out, I can count on you to be the thing that makes my Wednesday just a little more difficult after having one too many tasty local beers while enjoying the company of local eco folks.

 

But I have to say, this week, you outdid yourself. When I saw the event listed on Green Drinks Boulder’s facebook group, I thought that a party at Boulder Community Computers and iSupportU — about whom I knew nothing apart from having seen their bikes around town — had potential to be terrible or great.

Yeah, well, there was an 80′s band, sunshine, Avery beer, and a choreographed dance to Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out For a Hero.” So I’d call that a success.

 

Holding out for a heroic dance party at Green Drinks Boulder

The only complaint I heard about the entire event was that some of the grub came from a certain local Italian restaurant that uses anchovies in all of its sauces — and so none of its food is veg-friendly.

 

I saw a lot of familiar faces from previous Green Drinks events — and a lot of folks who just dropped by because they heard the partying. (In fact, I’m given to understand that there were two uniformed visitors of this variety later in the night — we left at 7 p.m., but apparently the party went on for several hours.)

In any case, I’d go ahead and say it was the best Green Drinks yet — a lot of smiling folks, a new place, new faces and a lot of chatter.

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