Ah, a little rest and relaxation in Atlanta – I mean, St. John,Virgin Islands.  We are breaking our rules for [tag]Week 30 of our 52 weeks of Drinks[/tag] because we can.  We headed down to St. John for a nice long weekend with our friends Erika and Jules and enjoyed far too many cocktails in the sun and rain (there was actually a tropical depression that hung out with us for some of our trip.)  But, a little rain, wind, thunder and lightning can’t screw up a trip to paradise.

Mostly, we hung out and made our own concoctions -one we have named The Glen because a gentleman by the name of Glen made us “his drink” last time we were there.  It consists of Cruzan Coconut Rum, (and it really should be Cruzan Rum,) a little Sprite, and fresh lime juice.  ( I seriously squeeze about a half of a lime in one drink – but this varies depending on how much lime you like.)

But, we will rate drinks from places we went while there.  Our first night out we headed to Morgan’s Mango and all got very tasty drinks (notice the colorful drinks in the photo above.)  Our favorite was something Jules ordered – our second frozen drink in our tastings.  It was called the Candela and tasted like a mojito on crack.  It consisted of vodka (not rum), fresh passion fruit, and mint all blended together.

Don’t forget our ratings scale is between 1 and 5 Olives.  One Olive = waste of my blogging time;  5 Olives = oh my goodness/yummmmmm

Presentation: 4 olives – None of us had never seen a frozen drink bright green before and it had a nice mint leaf sticking out of it.

Creativity: 4 olives – For the creativity alone – and Jules would never had ordered it had the bartender not just been so enthusiastic about the taste.

Taste:  4 olives – Delicious and refreshing and we all enjoyed it.

Overall: “Solid 4 olives – damn good drink,” says Jules.

Another evening, we headed to the Waterfront Bistro where we met M.J., the extremely cute bartender.  She created some fabulous drinks (one being a twist on a vodka dirty martini but with baby pickles and pickle juice instead of olives. Wow.)

We will rate mine though because I want to.  It was a gorgeous drink called the Strawberry Basil - not very unique name I must admit – that consisted of Kettle One Citroen vodka, served up with fresh strawberry puree – and crushed right in front of us-basil for the simple syrup. (Pictured in the middle)   Oh my.  Alas, my heart stopped a beat as I sipped it in the open air bar staring at the gorgeous mango trees (I may be making up the kind of tree here) and the ocean just a few steps in front of us.  Heaven on Earth.

Presentation: 3.5 olives – nothing too special – flecks of basil and nice strawberry hue.

Creativity: 4 olives – Loved the Citroen vodka with strawberry puree and basil.  Who knew?

Taste: 4.5 olives. Deliciousness in my tastebuds.

Overall: 4 olives.  Yum yum

Alas, St. John, we will be back and maybe we will actually rate a rum drink next time…