Post #786827 by Prikli Pear on Mon, May 14, 2018 1:25 PM

Been super-busy working on the Lagoon lately. I have a couple of build-alongs coming, but they have lots of photos and writing, really involved, so it'll be a bit before I share those. Instead, I have some photos from our inaugural tiki party, "Luau at the Lagoon," held this past Saturday. Mike Hooker and The Quiet Village--Austin's forthcoming tiki bar (once the lease negotiations are settled) handled everything behind the bar. We were expecting about 15 people to show up, maybe 20. Ultimately, more than 30 turned out and everyone brought gifts--seems like we finished the night with more rum than we started! The Boozy Doodler brought this fantastic shrunken head sculpture for the bar!

More things went wrong in the run-up to the party than I can count, and I was pretty much a basket case by the time guests started arriving. But everything eventually worked itself out as the evening progressed, and from my perspective it was a great introduction of my little tiki lounge to the greater community of Texas Tikiphiles.