What makes the work worth it
Hard to believe you can start the week on one side of the country, and find yourself with a full day at this treasure on the other coast. We don’t start vending to Saturday so we get Friday to hang out and get acclimated to the event and a chance to talk to our friends and hopefully future customers. The day went by very fast, with us starting the day off by the pool listening to the incredible DJ’s, seeing a swimsuit fashion show, getting all pretty for the night show and the incredible line-up of bands, and then mustering the energy to crawl from party to party getting free liquor. Not a bad to-do list!
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- View from the lawn chair I was parked in. Cold Beer in Hand. Ready for the day.
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- People decorate the balconies. This wasn’t even the most elaborate
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- Look at the hot chicks I hang with. Howdy Texas Time bomb!
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- Marty Lush and his Latin Livers
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- Crazy Al in on the action
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- Look at all the cool stuff to do!
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- Tikijauna themed stage
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- King Kukulele at the emcee helm again
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- Pink Feathers- there was a ton of great burlesque
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- Time for the Costume Contest
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- Gina & Jack! Super Star DJ’s and looking so right in that garb.
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- Marina in the pool with a Sombrero shark not far behind!
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- Fire eating pool side
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- Standing in line for the Smugglers Cove room!
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- We will get to our drink soon sweetie. It was worth the wait!
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- Looking down on people lining up for the next room crawl.
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- The inmates run the asylum! And we bring Rum!
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- Big Sandy with Los Straightjackets
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- Amazing!
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- Pufferfish Disco Ball in the TIki Hell room. We now worship this as our god.
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- The Bachelor Pad room- Igloo Style!!
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- Nice Job Java! The room drink was awesome too!
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- View from a party room. Does not get better
I took hundreds of photos but these are my favorite random pictures from that fabulous first day. Also the nights entertainment including the fashion show, that had our purse and bar case in it. Of course that will get a post all its own. I spent hours just talking to new people and past years friends, and it is a true luxury to find ourselves there among like minded tiki freaks! The room crawls and parties defy imagination. You see bands, get boozed up by the best mixologists around, you stand in line for hours going from elevator to room to room and many times you will find a band in there too. I don’t even know if I could ever really describe what a spectacle this all is, solely for the love of partying to a poly-pop interpretation of ancient islanders religion.
We’ve met the fine folks behind Lost in Paradise, and they have some neat well produced segments of the days events. Worth the watch!
Tomorrow the Fashion Show post. Some great pictures and they made our stuff look great!
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