Post #690726 by danlovestikis on Tue, Aug 20, 2013 8:17 AM

Zero Tiki, first off I have to confess to you that even though I took your card to Oasis that in the mad party that it was I forgot to say hi to everyone for you. I really had big plans to do that and to get a great photo of hugging GROG. Neither happened. So to all of you who know Zero Tiki and missed him at Oasis he said HI to all of you!

MadDogMike you are so right Mike. You are a great hugger. I just didn't get near enough photos.

lunavideogames Dan is running around finding places for his tiki loot. I'll eventually have photos of the best pieces and I'll post them here including the Ocean Beach lamps. I was happy to see you too.

zerostreet you are welcome. There was so much great art this year it was super to be allowed to exhibit there.

Today I want to back up to the beginning of our trip. I have family in Monticeto and we stopped for lunch there and then continued on to Ventura. We spent the night there so we could visit Ventiki the next day.

Here's Ventura Beach. It was overcast and cool. We have attended Tiki Oasis when it was 105 out. This year the entire week was in the 70's. It was the best ever.

On the patio of the hotel they used coconut shells to hold the drink menus. Clever.

When we were looking up Ventiki we found this place in the phone book. Too bad it was closed on Monday or we would have gone there.

Ventiki was easy to spot.

It was done up really well.

I felt right at home when I saw the wall mural outside. I just happened to have photos of my Zombie mug and even a photo of Sven with it.

The menu.

Dan scored a mug. Hey, I just saw my reflection in the window.

Inside was just as fun as the outside.

I got back to work yesterday on the Sacramento Crawl mug. When I finish all the Tiki Oasis posts I'll be ready to start showing my art work.

Thank you all so much for the visit. Hugs, Wendy