Post #317556 by Numatiki on Mon, Jul 9, 2007 6:45 PM

My girlfriend and I spent about 10 hours soaking up the surf music, the tiki vibe, and about 150 ounces of cool beverages at Saturday's event.

Being our first real tiki event since getting into the scene (we're building a home tiki bar), we didn't really know anyone but everyone that we did speak to was very friendly. We ate both lunch and dinner at the Wishbone next door, wandered down the street to Horrorbles and picked up a miniature Gort doll from "The Day The Earth Stood Still", asked Duke and Amy about our Treasure Craft "albino tiki", gave up a small fortune on Lake Tiki's fine crafts, got some great shirts from various vendors, but mostly just sat and took in the music, hour after hour. (We also sweat quite a bit - ninety-something degrees...phew!) The bands were all top-notch, the dancers were amusing, and I got to see The Trashmen do "Surfin' Bird", a song I used to listen to over and over on my record player as a kid.

And, oh yeah, I proposed to my girlfriend before leaving. (She said yes)

Thanks to everyone involved. Needless to say we had a blast and won't soon forget it.