Every year, our St. Patrick's Day Parade float gets bigger, better and more complicated.
Here's how our planning starts:
This was Peach's vision for this year's volcano float. Yes, we originally talked about having a flash mob as part of our extravaganza, but that idea was nixed out of concern for safety and logistics. Plus, we already had a lot to plan, and wrangling a flash mob added extra work.
We start simple and go from there.
We've got new wooden signs!
Our favorite crafty guy around town recently dropped off some more clever surprises for us:
There were a couple more, but they were a little more risque than usual. This is a family blog, after all.
The new signs will hang with the others on the wall near the women's bathroom. Be sure to check them out next time you're in the bar!
We had a special guest at the bar last night!
Captain Jack Sparrow was back for an encore performance. We haven't seen him since our birthday block party last summer, where he's been a special guest for the past two years.
The latest Pirates movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, opens on May 20 and Jack will be back for more adventures. We wanted to get our friend prepared, so we invited him out for a night at the bar.
He sashayed around the patio- the weather was beautiful!- and accosted cars in the street. He almost caused a traffic jam at the intersection at one point, when some excited young ladies wanted his picture.
Sandbar friend Laura was having dinner at Pachamama's across the street, and left a comment on our Facebook page about watching Jack sashay around the street.
He's always great fun!
Sandbar friend Jim uploaded this picture to our Facebook page:
Here's what he had to say about the picture:
There really isn't much of a story about the pic. I was going walkabout in the west with a good friend and ended up in Estes Park for a week. I was trying to find a unique locale for a pic with my Sandbar shirt during the entire journey that hadn't already been posted at the bar. Then there it was!
Thanks, Jim! You're right, this is our first picture from Estes Park.
It's almost that time again- graduation in Lawrence!
Every year, our graduation pint glasses are a popular gift item. And since we've been outsourcing our pint glass designs to our customers, the glasses have been even more popular.
We're looking for a great design to commemorate Graduation 2011.
Here's what last year's design looked like. Keep in mind, KU isn't the only school in town, and we also can't use any licensed images, like a Jayhawk. The design needs to be a pretty generic graduation design, though it should have a Sandbar flair!
There's no need to incorporate the Sandbar logo, because that will be on the other side of the glass.
Also, the design should be fairly simple, black and white line art. You don't have to be a design student or a professional to do this! Anyone can submit an idea, and if we like it and it's suitable for printing on a glass, we'll use it.
You'll get a pack of pint glasses and a T-shirt along with our eternal thanks and fifteen minutes of internet fame.
If you've got a design idea, email it to us at sandbar@thesandbar.com. We'd like to have the glasses available for purchase by around May 10, so the sooner we can get the design ready the better.
We look forward to seeing what you come up with!