Megan's Game Night: Win A $100 Visa Gift Card from BlogHer and Arbor Mist

This is a compensated review from BlogHer and Arbor Mist

My friends and I love game nights, especially in the winter.  Just picture it:  it's a Saturday night, it's cold outside, the fireplace is going and there's nothing nicer than having some friends over to shake off the work week, relax and engage in some friendly competition.

That's why when I got this assignment to put together a party theme basket including Arbor Mist's sparkling wines, Raspberry Sparkle and Peach Sparkle, and using a $200 Visa gift card, I knew my theme would be a game night.

When my friends and I do a game night, we don't generally have dinner but we have lots of appetizers and snacks, and for later in the evening, desserts and coffee.  And when it comes to the games we play, we're pretty old school.  Scrabble, Sorry, Trouble, Taboo, Risk--you name it. 

Once in a while we'll even play cards and our favorite is an old one that my friend Lucy's mother taught
her in Ecuador called Quaranta.   We sometimes try to keep her mother from playing though because when she does, she's merciless.  You think she's this sweet little older lady, but when she's playing Quaranta, we call her Shifty Madonna.

When I was putting my Arbor Mist party basket together first I started with some bottles of Raspberry Sparkle and Peach Sparkle from my local liquor store.  Then I went over to Trader Joe's because they have great hot snacks you can just pop in the oven.  They also have fabulous crackers, salsas and dips so I stocked up on those as well.

Since I'm a big Starbucks fan, I got a Starbucks gift basket that was on sale at Staples and voila:  I had a basket, coffee and plenty of cookies to snack on later in the evening.  (photo above and right)

Because Legal Eagle and her husband The Architect came over last weekend for a visit, I decided to do a little Arbor Mist taste test before our upcoming game night.  Since this was the first time I was tasting Raspberry Sparkle and Peach Sparkle also I thought it would be fun to see what we all thought.