Intriguing alternative? Yikes! That's the first time I've hear of someone liking sherry in the can. I guess if your nose can't tell the difference your can can.

Taking the boys to the monster trucks? Methinks you're already taking your sherry by tube. Are you sure there's pulling? Truck-pulling is a useful skill for some professions, although it generates so much smoke that I can't imagine a truck-pull indoors. And for some reason I can't imagine you sitting out in the cold to watch that. I anxiously await your report.