Post #158119 by CheekyGirl on Wed, May 11, 2005 6:11 PM

I had such a wonderful time. My friend, Cheri, had the opportunity to accompany me on Thur. and Fri., she was very impressed with the camaraderie, hospitality & down-right friendliness of everyone. This year I didn't set foot in the pool, too busy crawling and socializing. The room crawl was a great way to meet and greet new friends and old. It also allowed me to meet a lot of TCers that I hadn't had the opportunity to do so before.

For those of you who stopped by for a Martini, thanks for your patience, I'm a rusty bartender! And Mrs. Pug, I'll keep working on that "Pug-Tini".

So many to list, but here's my Highs & Lows:

HIGHS!

• Arriving & seeing so many familiar faces and meeting so many new ones!!
• All the entertainers: Ape, Fisherman, King Kuk, Gingergoldmine's fab performance, etc., etc.
• Consulting the Mystic & Magic 8 Ball with Laney & Monkeyman.
• Al & Shelley's hospitality, generosity & party!
• The Pugs' Mojitos
• Savage BaxDog & Virgin Shell's duel to the death!
• Room crawl & most gracious room hosts.
• Watching Monkeyman bouncing skills in action!
• Watching Crazy Al, Judd many others play a variety of instruments, (including the ice bucket) sing, chant and rockn' out
• Atomic Cocktail dancing to Wipe Out, his gyrating hips made Crazy Al ever CRAZIER! I didn't think Atomic could top last year's CD chase, but he did.
• Seeing the Two Queer Tikis again! (xoxo)
• Watching a clown and a one-horned devil playing percussion in Futura Girl's room (that's the stuff that nightmares are made of)
• Finally meeting Handford.
• Tasting all 5 grogs, and still being completely sober (PiPhiRho, you got my vote too, I want that recipe!)
• The "short walk" to Ralphs with Les, Cheri and Christina (DJ Lee's gal--she's awesome) and hitching a ride with Brad (Thanks Man! My feet really thank you!)
• Having Beach Bum Barry sign all my books!
• Falling asleep each night to boisterous laughter and music outside, to the left, right and above my room!

LOWS!

• Being way too tired to join everyone at Dr. Z & DolphinTiki's party.
• Weirdo party crasher who thought Vintage Girl was a lollipop.
• Drunk girl who stumbled and fell to the floor during the grog tasting. Drunken Hat made a split decision and sacrificed 1/2 a pitcher of his wonderful grog. He had 2 choices 1) catch drunk girl and prevent her from crackin' her noggin on the pavement or 2) sacrifice grog in order to catch drunk girl. For those who sampled his grog, it was a REALLY tough decision. Damn waste of grog!
• Not shopping nearly enough and spending way too much time cleaning my room on Sun., so vendors had already started packing up their goodies. Teaches me a valuable lesson, SHOP EARLY!
• Sticky pavement outside my door, after grog contest, Yuk!
• Check out at 11:00 a.m! What was up with that!
• Leaving and not saying goodbye to nearly enough people.

Thank you, thank you, Otto, Baby Doe and everyone one else in front of the scenes and behind them that make this event possible!

[ Edited by: CheekyGirl 2007-05-07 10:31 ]