by Debbi | Dec 12, 2006 | Christmas
The annual Sandbar Christmas party was last night.
And what a night it was. We rented a party bus that picked up the Lawrence crew at 5:30. The bus stopped in Baldwin and picked up folks at The Lodge, and then traveled on to Ottawa to the newly opened Plaza Cinema. Movie Dave showed us the new James Bond flick and then it was on to The Sandbar in Ottawa.
Heather and Michelle were mermaids on the bar. The ceilings are a lot shorter in Ottawa than they are in Lawrence- us tall ones have to stick to dancing on the benches.
The bus ride to and from is always fun. This particular bus came equipped with its own stripper pole. Of course this group couldn’t leave that one alone. But it wasn’t the girls showing off their moves- apparently Danny and Blair have side jobs that they haven’t told us about. These two seem to know their way around a pole.
The bus headed back to Lawrence around 10:30. The folks in Ottawa were still going strong when the bus left, and the party continued in Lawrence until the wee hours. No cheese puffs involved this time, though.
Everyone had a great time dancing and drinking and laughing. Peach and Ted always give us a great party at the end of the year. A photo album with pictures from the evening is over on the right side menu. Enjoy!
by Debbi | Nov 27, 2006 | Christmas
I wanted to write about holiday parties last week….but I really hate it when people start talking about the holidays before Thanksgiving. So I held off until now….
The Sandbar is a great place for holiday parties. Unless of course you have a hundred employees, and in that case they just won’t all fit. You can bring in your own food, or give us a call and we can help arrange the food. We love it when people bring decorations too.
Our favorite holiday party is our own. Every year employees at both Sandbar’s and The Lodge get together to celebrate. Usually the party rotates from one place to the other…but we probably won’t be able to do it in Lawrence anymore because it’s so small. Sometimes we have dinner at The Lodge and then head over to Ottawa for the party. Last year, we had a rousing game of charades happening in front of the fire at The Lodge. This year, since Peach and Ted opened up the new movie theater in Ottawa, we’re going to have the party there.
One of the funny traditions that has evolved from the many holiday parties is cheese puffs. We brought a huge Sam’s- size container of cheese puffs to the party in Lawrence one year. Later in the night, the remaining hard-core partiers decided to bar hop down Massachusetts Street, taking along the cheese puffs. Anyone who happened to be looking for this group could easily find them by the trail of orange balls left along the street, going in and out of bars, and finally trailing back to The Sandbar.Since that year we always buy a large container of cheese puffs to take to the holiday party.
In the past we’ve had gift exchanges that have gotten pretty wild. We like the kind where you draw numbers, and the first person picks a gift and opens it, and the next person can either steal it or pick a new gift…and so on down the line. You just never know what you might open at one of our parties…it could be a gallon of Tide, a bottle of wine, or a motorcycle helmet that someone found on the side of the road.
Who knows what this year’s party will bring…
