The mystery of the meandering, merry martini
Source: Seattle Times ()
In Broadmoor, the mystery of the Holiday Martini Glass continues. Each year around Thanksgiving, the 4-foot-tall martini glass — complete with glowing red swizzle stick — goes up on the lawn of the Mehls’ home on Parkside Drive. It’s a tradition that began 15 years ago in Sahalee, where it was once stolen from the Mehls’ front yard and returned a week later. Intrigue followed the martini glass to Broadmoor, where one night each December, the glass mysteriously migrates next door and winds up on the neighbor’s Christmas tree.
“No one quite knows how it gets there. It’s on their house, and then suddenly it’s on our tree,” says Lisa Turnure. “It just kind of happens in the middle of the night.”
There, it becomes a beacon for the annual Turnure Martini Party — known in the pre-martini-glass years as the Turnure Christmas Party — a sign that the holiday party season has begun. The end. …
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