Thank You Otto, Babydoe and all for TO-09!! - California Events

C congawa Member Long Beach, CA Joined: Aug 11, 2008 Posts: 358	C congawa Posted posted on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 11:02 AM On behalf of the Ding Dong Devils, I'd like to thank Otto and Baby Doe for a great Tiki Oasis! Also, thanks to everyone who came to our three room parties on Friday afternoon, and Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening. I hope you had as much fun as we did playing our tunes and hosting! This band was literally birthed at last Tiki Oasis, formed out of our previous group the Fleagles to perform some tiki themed songs we wrote (and a few covers that fit), so this was the culmination of that inspiration from TO '08. (We're recording as we speak, so and hope to have a CD by TO '10.) Special thanks to hostesses with the mostesses Vixiana (Christine) and Rita for coordinating the bar and door, and keeping things flowing while we played! Also thanks to Dan, Leslie, Don Brewski, and everyone else who helped us get the room together. This was our first time hosting room crawl parties, and everything went smoothly (at least, nothing that couldn't be solved with a couple of BevMo trips). Our allotment of Bahooka Head Shrinker mix held out for the planned two parties, but when we decided to do an unplanned Saturday night shindig we mixed an impromptu, on-the-spot concoction we're calling "The Bamboozler"--since it requires being stirred by the end of a tiki torch (new, unused, and sanforized for your protection, of course)! We also thank some of the veteran room hosts for their sage advice. More special thanks go to all the Devil-Ettes who came up to our suite to dance on Saturday (including to the Devil-Ettes Theme), squeezing our party in between their go-go class and evening performance. It was much appreciated, and made the music sound much better! We also enjoyed all the other room crawl parties we attended, and everything else we were able to get too (because we were hosting I missed a lot of good stuff, like Martin's rum seminar--next year we may do it again, but possibly not a Saturday day party because there's so much going on). Maybe next year, our official band cocktailmeister Rama Lama (Edwin) will break out his special concoction called "The Ding Dong Devil." Since it requires a lot of fresh, high-maintenance ingredients, he decided to forgo serving it during our room hosting debut, but we may be ready to try it next year! I have some photos of our Friday party and Sunday's car show, which I'll post a link to on the photo thread. I would love to see any shots of our Saturday parties (particularly the evening) if anyone took them (Vixiana and Rita were way too busy serving to take any snaps). Thanks again! Brent (Caltiki / Congawa)

On behalf of the Ding Dong Devils, I'd like to thank Otto and Baby Doe for a great Tiki Oasis!

Also, thanks to everyone who came to our three room parties on Friday afternoon, and Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening. I hope you had as much fun as we did playing our tunes and hosting! This band was literally birthed at last Tiki Oasis, formed out of our previous group the Fleagles to perform some tiki themed songs we wrote (and a few covers that fit), so this was the culmination of that inspiration from TO '08. (We're recording as we speak, so and hope to have a CD by TO '10.)

Special thanks to hostesses with the mostesses Vixiana (Christine) and Rita for coordinating the bar and door, and keeping things flowing while we played! Also thanks to Dan, Leslie, Don Brewski, and everyone else who helped us get the room together. This was our first time hosting room crawl parties, and everything went smoothly (at least, nothing that couldn't be solved with a couple of BevMo trips). Our allotment of Bahooka Head Shrinker mix held out for the planned two parties, but when we decided to do an unplanned Saturday night shindig we mixed an impromptu, on-the-spot concoction we're calling "The Bamboozler"--since it requires being stirred by the end of a tiki torch (new, unused, and sanforized for your protection, of course)! We also thank some of the veteran room hosts for their sage advice.

More special thanks go to all the Devil-Ettes who came up to our suite to dance on Saturday (including to the Devil-Ettes Theme), squeezing our party in between their go-go class and evening performance. It was much appreciated, and made the music sound much better!

We also enjoyed all the other room crawl parties we attended, and everything else we were able to get too (because we were hosting I missed a lot of good stuff, like Martin's rum seminar--next year we may do it again, but possibly not a Saturday day party because there's so much going on). Maybe next year, our official band cocktailmeister Rama Lama (Edwin) will break out his special concoction called "The Ding Dong Devil." Since it requires a lot of fresh, high-maintenance ingredients, he decided to forgo serving it during our room hosting debut, but we may be ready to try it next year!

I have some photos of our Friday party and Sunday's car show, which I'll post a link to on the photo thread. I would love to see any shots of our Saturday parties (particularly the evening) if anyone took them (Vixiana and Rita were way too busy serving to take any snaps).

Thanks again!

Brent (Caltiki / Congawa)

Post #477822 by congawa on Tue, Aug 18, 2009 11:02 AM