Post #603811 by congawa on Wed, Aug 24, 2011 12:54 PM

Big thanks to Otto and Baby Doe, and all the volunteers, for a terrific Tiki Oasis!

Thanks to everyone who came to our Ding Dong Devils room party up on the 8th floor Friday and Saturday nights--we had a blast playing and hope everyone had fun too! Thanks to Hell on Heels Burlesque Revue for performing as well both nights, and enormous appreciation to Montanya Rum and Michelle Baldwin for her tasty selection of cocktails at the party (and thanks to the Forbidden Island and Smugglers Cove room parties for their graciousness in lending us ingredients late Saturday night as the party rolled on!).

The only problem with doing room parties both nights (and spending most of them wearing an instrument) was having to miss the other room parties and bands going on simultaneously. There was so much fun to be had! There were so many highlights of the weekend, but seeing and hearing Jack Costanzo and his band was a high point for me! I got him to autograph my Bongo Fever/Garden of Allah LP, and afterward a man asked to see it and then showed it to a little girl and said "That's grampa." Looking at the picture of the 30-something man with black hair in the picture, she said "Uh uh...that's not grampa." A beautiful Tiki Oasis moment.

Caltiki Brent