You know how much we love JibJab and St. Patrick's Day, so here's a funny little video we made, starring Dave and all his girl bartenders.
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Have fun and celebrate, but please be safe.
Tomorrow's the big day!
The annual Lawrence St. Patrick's Day Parade is tomorrow at 1 p.m. Word has it that our float will be near the end of the long parade, so be sure to stick around to see us!
This week was full of last minute preparations:
Last night, we held another spray tan party upstairs at the bar for all the ladies on the float. Oh, and Andrew. Amelia of Premier Mobile Spray Tan came to town to make us brown, and it took her nearly almost five hours to finish everyone. Even our driver, Scott, decided to have a tan. It was a lucrative night for Amelia.
I put on a shamrock-shaped sticker last night before I got my tan, in hopes that I could take a picture of the tan line so you could see just how good a spray tan looks, but unfortunately the sticker didn't stick well and the shamrock is more of a white blob.
Update: Caroline, a Sandbar regular and float participant, managed to get a much better shamrock:
Then tonight, we had our annual meet-and-greet with our friendly float competitors from Kennedy Glass. Marty and Patty used to help build the Sandbar float once upon a time, but then they decided the parade could use another float so they took their talents back to their own shop. Since then, we've enjoyed a friendly competition to see who can build a bigger float.
The Kennedy Glass crew came over to our float headquarters to check out our creation and enjoy dinner courtesy of Sandbar Subs.
The construction crew is putting on a few last minute touches tonight and then we'll be ready for the chaos of St. Patrick's Day!
The other day I searched for "Sandbar" on the LJWorld.com site to see if anything interesting came up. I used to do this on a more regular basis, but the search results didn't seem to work very well. The search results still seem to be funky sometimes, but occasionally they work for me.
It was a stroll down memory lane checking out the LJW archives.
They've got a picture of almost every St. Patrick's Day parade float we've built:
And so much more. More float pictures, block party pictures and videos and random pictures from New Year's eve celebrations and the cardboard boat race parade that used to take place downtown.
We love looking back at floats from the past to see how far we've come! Every year Dave wants to build something bigger and better than the year before. We can't wait to show off this year's float- we think you'll like it!
St. Patrick's Day isn't just a day for us- it's several months worth of planning, creating, building, sewing and dancing that all lead up to one fantastic day of fun.
Float construction has been non-stop for the past few weeks, and our float is almost finished. A mini-sweatshop has been set up at Dave's house, and the costumes are ready. We've mixed and re-mixed our music until it's perfect.
The "beeramid." This is how the construction crew is keeping track of their progress on the float. Apparently, it's not accurate, because the beeramid crashed one day.
It's finally the week of the big event, and we've got float practice, spray tan appointments and socials with other float-building teams scheduled this week. Yes, we really do have float practice.
And, the weather forecast shows a high of 70 degrees for Thursday.
We can't wait!
To go along with the St. Patrick's Day theme that we stretch out as long as possible every year, we bring you our newest drink toy:
(photo courtesy of Fun Express)
Shamrock shutter shades! Shutter shades have easily been our most popular drink toy in the history of Bahama Mamas, and when we found this shamrock-shaped version, we knew we had to have them.
Our new St. Patrick's Day pint glasses are in! After the huge success of our Thanksgiving, Christmas and Valentine's Day pint glasses, we're definitely making this a holiday tradition.
Big thanks to customer Brian for the great design:
Look closely at the leprechaun- does he remind you of anyone? (Hint: a big, tall guy.)
The pint glasses are for sale for just $3 each, and you can bring them in on Thursdays when tropical drinks are just $2.50. Be sure to add this one to your collection!
(Note: You may have noticed that St. Patrick's Day falls on a Thursday this year. While we will still consider it "Tropical Thursday," we will NOT have tropical drinks on special that day. In fact, there are no drink specials on St. Patrick's Day.)