Sandbar Christmas Party 2009

by | Dec 22, 2009 | Christmas, Events, People

This post was intended to be published yesterday, but it's taken too long to recover from all the fun at our annual Christmas party, so it's late. Sorry.

Where to start?!?

Usually we ask everyone to wear ugly Christmas sweaters, but Dave wanted to kick it up a notch. We requested that all of the staff and their guests dress as their favorite holiday character- and perhaps unsurprisingly, they delivered.

I believe it was Dave who told someone "we like to not be ourselves as much as possible."

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This year Dave offered a cash prize for the best costume. As if this crowd needed an incentive. All the participants lined up on the benches, and we narrowed it down to four based on applause from the crowd. The final four were John the Nutcracker, Michele as Mr. Hankie the Christmas Poo, Chris as Cousin Eddie, and me! I was the Leg Lamp from A Christmas Story.
John won the contest and Michelle came in second. Excellent costumes, guys.

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Of course we had the annual White Elephant/present stealing gift game. Some people bring nice gifts; others bring crap. I'd like to point out the two especially awesome gifts in the pictures above. Thank God someone stole the toilet paper holder from Dave. 

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We rounded everybody up and had some of the non-costumed folks take some group shots outside the bar. Check out that variety- we had Mary and Joseph, Santas, elves, Scrooge, a couple Cousin Eddie's, Suzy Snowflake….such a creative bunch of people we have.

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Towards the end of the night, we decided to do a test run of next year's Santacon. Some smart person chose the Red Lyon as our destination- which while we all love the bar, it's a million blocks away from the Sandbar. Some of us were wearing heels. And some of us- meaning John the Nutcracker- forgot our ID, and the lovely man working the door refused to let him in without it. John walked all the way back to the Sandbar to retrieve it, and all the way back to Red Lyon to have a drink with us.

Successful night. Can't wait to do it again next year. 

More pictures available on our Facebook page and Flickr photostream.

Halloween Costumes from The Sandbar

by | Nov 3, 2009 | Bar Band, Halloween

Everyone recovered from Halloween?

The Sandbar had a great Halloween night, thanks to all of our great friends and customers. Once again, we neglected to have a costume contest- that's quickly becoming "our thing." I don't think anyone really noticed or cared though.

Lots of great costumes paraded through the bar! Some of our favorites:

John McEnroe, aka once upon a time staffer Todd; current bartender and sometimes-sax man for $ellout Danny, "I'm not Amelia Earhart, d**mit!"; and current bartender Coleen as a pirate.

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An eclectic group that includes an actual Amelia Earhart, characters from Up!, and the Burger King:

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And perhaps one of the stranger pairs of the night, the ShamWow guy and the, uh, lady (?) who beat him up. Yeah, only Joe and someone who hangs out with him could pull this off.

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Some others in attendance: Beyonce, in her "Single Ladies" outfit; Disney princesses; a Roller Derby team of four (yes, they were actually on rollerskates, in the bar); a beer pong table; the Karate Kid group from last night; and a whole gaggle of schoolgirls and nerds. Oh, and remember Rose, from the movie Titanic? She was there, too. Dressed from the scene where Jack is painting her? And all she's wearing is that enormous blue diamond necklace? Yeah, that girl had guts.

Oh, and Top Gun seemed to be a popular theme this year, too. We couldn't figure that one out, but there were lots of pilot types in the bar. Dave played some Top Gun tunes for them.

Dave and Hayley tag teamed their costumes- he was a jail inmate and she was the sexy cop.

We unfortunately didn't get very many pictures on Halloween night. There's a few more on our Facebook page and our Flickr photostream, but otherwise, we are hoping that you will share your pictures with us. Email them to us at sandbar{at}thesandbar{dot}com.

Hope you had a safe and fun Halloween!