Post #239855 by Rum Demon on Mon, Jun 26, 2006 10:36 PM

I guess I'll start my post with a picture. Can't believe the first 24 hours post event yields only ONE photo thus far. Well, I can believe it. I didn't take many snaps either. Sorry folks. All I shot was something I KNEW I'd never get a chance to photograph again...

It's Robertiki in a dirt pile! Woooo hooo!

Ok, it's more than that. It's Robertiki standing behind the future bar at Portland's first new tiki haunt in forever, Thatch. There he is, trying to get us all to imagine ourselves swept away from our workaday lives into a tropical wonderland of you know the rest. It's going to be amazing, folks.

I'd also like to extend big time holla to all the people that made Tiki Kon possible: the organizers, open-house(bar) homeowners, Alibi, Jasmine Tree, and Jupiter staff, vendors, the bands, sponsors, everyone. You know who you are and you are awesome. It was also very nice to finally meet a bunch o TCers face to face. It's sooo easy to strike up a conversation with any one of you. As a shy person I have to remember that at future events. The ice is well broken. You are all beautiful people. Naming names will just reveal my terrible memory and I don't want anyone to feel unloved.

Having said that...

Super big thanks to Heather, Seamus, and Woofmutt for the great art I won at the raffle. Katie and I were triple blessed with prizes. Said art shall inherit places of honor in our up and coming tiki sanctuary.

A wonderful crawl and a wonderful time, I look forward to many happy tiki years to come.

-Joe (and probably Katie too because I know she had a good time)