Dessert and drink pairings send a clear message about their consumer: cupcakes and cocktails say, "sophisticated," while pudding skin and moonshine say, "get off my lawn." Send the right message with today’s Groupon: for $20, you get one ticket to the La Jolla New Generations Rotary Club's “Cupcakes & Cocktails” event in Del Mar (a $40 value). The three-hour event will be held at the Del Mar Powerhouse on Sunday, July 24, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The La Jolla New Generations Rotary Club's “Cupcakes & Cocktails” event invites guests for an afternoon of tasty sweets and delicious drinks in a spacious, lodge-style venue overlooking the beach. Over the course of the event, guests can socialize and compare frosting beards as they nibble on two cupcakes and exchange two drink tickets for cocktails or beers by Blue Moon and Longboard, all for a worthy cause. Listen to the reverberations of live music in the natural lighting of the main room, migrate up to the second-floor deck to get a lofty view of the coast, or step out onto the shaded terrace to enjoy the fresh, summer air amid flowers and park benches. Each guest will also be entered into a raffle for chances to win rewards from an Aveda salon, goodies from Sprinkles Cupcakes, a cash prize, and a lifetime supply of leftover ticket stubs.
All of the proceeds from "Cupcakes & Cocktails" will go to funding research for Dercum's disease at UCSD. After the event, attendees can continue to comingle over dinner at one of the area's upscale restaurants or mosey on outdoors for a romantic stroll in the ocean.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Bird Watching
There's nothing more peaceful than spending a day in a forest observing birds feeding their young or building a nest out of discarded pizza crusts. Before you embark on your next bird-spying mission, brush up on the basics:
- Packing light ensures you'll have plenty of space to bring birds home with you, which makes future bird-watching trips as easy as letting them out of your backpack so they can hover around your basement.
- Learn birdcalls to dupe the birds into coming to you. Birds usually won't approach you because the sight of a human reminds them that some of their ancestors once betrayed their avian roots by evolving into featherless, flightless homunculi.
- Binoculars will become your best friend on the trip, as your actual best friend will likely be pricked by a bird's razor-like, toxin-producing stinger. If your binoculars are encased in a tumbled-leather protector, clutching them in a moment of fear will feel no different that clutching your friend, should he or she have been heavily tanned.
- Record your findings using the field guide, either by writing in the margins or ripping out the pages to create a papier-mâché cast of its body.
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