Post #722537 by muskrat on Tue, Jul 15, 2014 12:07 AM

thanks to all for the kudos.
feel free to steal whatever you see, that's why i'm posting it.

before i move on to the roof i thought i'd share the story of how we came up with the name, as this is about the time during the build we solidified it.

we had been tossing around a few names but only one of them was sticking.
as a young boy, if there was a special occasion the family spent it at Albert's Tiki Village in sacramento.

it was my favorite place and introduced me to exotic drinks in fancy mugs (shirley temple with an umbrella).
i wanted the name to be an homage to my favorite tiki bar and as my mom calls me kiki (something i hated and tried to hide most of my life) this seemed like the right name. mrs. muskrat wasn't convinced but then wendy "danlovestikis" cevola introduced the sacramento crawl mug for 2014 and it was sealed.

we contacted wendy and told her about our bar and asked if we could commission her to make one mug with our name and script instead of albert's.

we went to meet wendy and dan and got the grand tour of their collection (it is most impressive) and bought a coral reef mug while we were there. wendy agreed and here's the beginnings of our very own mug.

wendy's work amazes me and it was her mug that solidified the name choice for our bar.

thanks wendy.

tomorrow...the roof.