More wooden signs showed up on our stoop a few weeks ago. Five of them this time, bundled together with a rubber band.
Here they are:
And this one was my favorite- it was double sided fun:
What other places have you seen this signs? The Lawrence Humane Society has turned them into a fundraiser- maybe we should turn them into prizes for something. Which one's your favorite?
Friday night was the sixth annual Lawrence Chamber of Commerce's Young Professionals Putt Putt Pub Crawl. The event brings together local young professionals for a fun evening of traveling to downtown bars, socializing, and playing putt putt. Each of the participating bars puts together their own putt putt hole, and this year there was a trophy for the best hole, as voted on by participants!
The Sandbar has participated in this event every year, and Dave always tries to make a creative putt putt hole that's not too hard, but not too easy. It's set up on the beach upstairs. This year's hole looked a little like skee-ball with a sombrero on top.
Our web guy/resident Guinness drinker Frank agreed to supervise the putt putt hole. He was all decked out for the occasion in a Hawaiian print shirt. Frank handed out beads to the golfers, and shots were available upstairs. The hallway got a little congested with all the players, but everyone seemed to really enjoy the Sandbar's golf course.
The other bars that participated were Fatso's, the Granada, the Barrel House (they had cornhole instead of mini-golf!), and the Eldridge. The crowd ended up at Johnny's across the river for an after party with pizza and prizes.
Our friend Becki won an awesome door prize- a cooler full of party supplies and four tickets and parking passes to a Royals game in July!
And, the Sandbar was voted best putt putt hole by the players! We'll get a trophy to display in the bar- we'll put it next to our St. Patrick's Day trophy.
David, one of our customers, and his wife Haley recently traveled to Houston to fulfill a longtime dream: to see Jimmy Buffett in concert. Here's what they had to say:
For
the last ten years or so I've been trying to see Jimmy Buffett live in
concert. Unfortunately with Jimmy's tour schedule and my schedules,
he never seemed to play close to Kansas. We hadplans last year to
fly to Las Vegas to see him at the MGM Grand, but right as we were booking
our airline tickets he cancelled the concert. This spring we made
plans to go see Jimmy live in Houston, TX and got our tickets and hotels
all booked. The 12 hour drive down was worth it jamming to Jimmy
songs on my ipod with my wife as I drove south. The night of the
concert we got all dressed up with Margaritaville attire, grabbed a tour
t-shirt and a margarita before the show. The show was fantastic, Jimmy played for over 2 hours. The songs were a variety of the new
album, "Buffet Hotel", random other artists songs, and a lot of
the old standby's on the "Songs You Know By Heart" classic album.
All I can say is that it was well worth the wait to see him live
for the first time! Any Sandbar or Jimmy fan should see him live
at least once in their lives, it is truly an experience to be remembered!
David was kind enough
to also forward some pictures of Jimmy on stage, the fins in the
audience, and of course, the requisite margarita. No Shark Attacks in sight, however.
Thanks, David and Haley! We're glad you had a great time.
"This six foot nine dude came in all ticked off. He was really drunk. I tried to stop him from coming in, but he was too powerful. He was really angry. Danny tried to stop him, he punched Danny in the head, we called the cops, and they hauled him out.
Then he started serving drinks."
–John
(Our doorguys like to make funny stories up when they're bored at the door. Dave is six foot ten. Don't take away that inch.)
Last month our sister Sandbar in Ottawa featured live music on the beach. Well, the beach volleyball court behind the building, which is the closest thing to a beach around here (unless you count our fake beach upstairs).
The Barnyard Boys, a local band, performed that night- and a few weeks later a video popped up on YouTube of their performance. If you like bluegrass music, you'll love the Barnyard Boys.
It doesn't look like their website has been updated for awhile, so I can't tell you when they're playing again, but if we find out we'll let you know.