Post #191424 by pablus on Sun, Oct 9, 2005 3:52 PM

It was great to see all of the familiar ohana again and meet some new ones.

I'm still reeling from the Waitiki Denny tribute late last night. We finally evacuated the Mai Kai at 2:30 and hit the party at Unga Bunga's groovy pad.

I left there at 4:30 and the place was still swinging with the Haole Kats and King Kukulele and a couple of guys from Waitiki.

Awesome to hit the beach (not much surf yesterday) and strum a few tunes under the shade of the CocoPalms. Again last night in the Mai Kai gardens I sat there alone next to the big Barney West Tiki and strummed for an hour or so.

The Haole Kats are some of the best people I've ever met. And their music needs to be in every tiki bar in the world.

I got me a Lake Surfer Lono Tiki. I'll post pics in a few days/weeks when I get a chance to upgrade the Lagoon yet again.

The Mai Kai is the center of the universe.
Everything is done to perfection.

Nice touch by Basement Kahuna to give the gracious and lovely owner of the Mai Kai a hand carved Tiki that you can check out in Creating Tiki.

Thanks to all of the organizers and behind the scenes people who made it happen.

Oh and one more thing;
I've been imortalized in comic form in Tikilicious's Hukilau Coloring Book. What a gas that thing is.

More maholos later - pabby sleepy...zzzzzzzzzzzz.

p.s. - missed Al, Dr. Z and Danny this year along with Flounder, Kailuageoff and Jungle Trader. Others too - Jochen, you were missed braddah. And some other guy who drank Budweiser all the time last year - what was his name again? Reverend something or other.
Reedcloth Jimmy? Poplar Pete? I forget.

ARRRRRRRRRRRR!