About 2/3 of the way through Desert Bus, the whole crew was getting pretty tired, and pretty stressed out. We thought some “adult” beverages would the things we needed to soothe our jangled nerves. We put out a call for cocktails and mocktails that captured the spirit of Desert Bus, and here they are:

Alcoholic:

Winner:

Mark’s Deceptive Sunrise

1 part Drambuie

2 parts ginger ale

splash cherry juice

Runners Up:

Katherine’s Sweetness for the Children Cocktail

1/2 oz of Pineapple Juice

1/2 oz Melon Liquior

1/2 oz peach snappes

1/2 oz 7up

Jillian’s  - The Bug Splat

2 parts Midori

1 part Limoncello

1 part gin

Non-Alcoholic:

Winner:

Leigh’s CHOCOLATE BUS

orange juice

chocolate milk

(note – this will curdle, but tastes like drinking a chocolate orange)

Runners Up:

Beth’s Las Vegas Lights (or 1 point) – Non-alcoholic:

1 oz lemon juice

3 oz cranberry juice

1 oz apple juice

1/4-1/2 oz grenadine

Garnish with 2 pieces colourful candy (gummy bears, skittles, etc)

Gareth’s Desert Sunset

Arizona Iced Tea

Orange Juice

(super boring, but therefore very much in flavour for Desert Bus)

I think, in this case, we can all agree that Team Cheese is the clear winner, but let’s have a look at what happens when Ashton and Kroze are forced to go up against it, mono-a-mono-style.

Rosco is a duck of many talents, who has led a long and daring life of adventure. Below is a small sampling of his feats, as illustrated by you, in one of the most impressive collections of art we’ve ever had a challenge produce. Great kudos to the illustrators.

In the wee hours of the morning, Kathleen discovered a creature long ago thought to be extinct: the dreaded bear shark. Here are the representations of the beast that swam from your collective psyches and into our inbox.

Frequent watchers of Desert Bus will be familiar with Pants-on-Head James who, with Rosco, has had many fantastic adventures. Here are some of your interpretations of his fantastic exploits!

I hope Mark Rosewater is still reading this, because it’s pretty obvious the Desert Bus community is fantastic at card design! Check out all the submissions for our Magic card design contest!

Wow! It is awesome to see that  we have so much talent watching Desert Bus. Because you wanted to see them, here’s some very tasteful pinups of Kathleen … in a bear hat, of course (I said they were tasteful).

Huge thanks to OursTeh1337 for creating the awesome Desert Bus for Hope twibbon that has been making-sexy all of our Twitter and Facebook avatars for the last few days. If you want to show support and help folks learn about the event, you can add it to your avatar here.

Also, don’t forget to use the #DesertBus hashtag to help us climb the trending topics. We have no twilight to compete against this year: I’m pretty sure we can take #BlackFriday and #SlapYourself. Even if you can’t donate, you can help the children by spreading the word as we lead up to our start, 6:00pm this Friday.

This awesome Lady Gaga parody was created by Ian Horner.