Post #75911 by JonPez on Fri, Feb 13, 2004 1:15 AM

Hello all...
Late poster, that's me!!

Had a great time at the Hawaiian Inn gathering! Fantastic to see Bree and Tristan (who live right up the road, but we never see) and Flounder (who just painted me a SWEET Kahona painting for my Tiki Room (pics to come).
Pablus, I had never met you before, but you opened up your room to us like we were family. Amazing drinks, you are the master of details (I don't remember many of those details, but I believe there was fresh grated nutmeg involved). Thank you very much for the libations.

Saw many friendly faces from the Hukilau, where I lurked unnoticed by all (amazingly enough, being 6'4" and hairy).
Pleasure to meet the lovely Humuhumu, and special thanks to NeptuneTiki for the confirmation on my Witco find earlier in the day.

Got to spend some time with Tweedtone and Andrea. He was my best friend in middle/high school (a looong time ago) and we lost touch over time. Very odd how Tiki stuff brought our parallel paths together, but I am glad it did.

The decor at the Inn was incredible, with more Witcos than imaginable.

I'll try and post a few pics here, but most of them will go on my site in the near future. Unfortunately, many of my pics ended up like Flounder's (thanks to too many Zombies, I think)

The Flounders...

The Tweedtones...

That's us!

How I saw most of the Luau show...

The great Mainlander-style Witco fountain in the lobby...

Thanks again, for all the planning that went into the gathering, and we can't wait to see you all again!
JonPez (and Julie)

[ Edited by: JonPez on 2004-02-13 01:18 ]

[ Edited by: JonPez on 2004-02-13 01:19 ]