You might have noticed that we haven't posted much on the blog lately, and we haven't been very active on our Facebook and Twitter accounts. There's a good reason for our inactivity!
There's a brand-new Sandbar baby in town, and your blogger was a little busy giving birth last week and learning how to handle a newborn baby this week.
Manager Dave is a proud new daddy! Be sure to congratulate him next time you see him. Of course he wore a Sandbar shirt for a hospital photo opp.
Fun fact: no fewer than three nurses in the labor, delivery and postpartum areas at Overland Park Regional Medical Center have been to the Sandbar, and a few have even danced on the bar.
We love our Sandbar shirts, and we especially love finding old-school shirts from the early days. Fortunately, Dave is a packrat and held on to many of his shirts from the 90's, shirts that many of you have probably never seen.
These days, most of our T-shirts are solid-colored logo shirts. Back then, we mostly sold white T-shirts with cool designs on the back. It was also pre-official-logo time, so the now-familiar tiki head is nowhere to be found on these shirts.
For Christmas, Dave and I had a T-shirt quilt made for Sandbar founder Peach. It's made up of 21 Sandbar shirts through the years and includes a shirt from the ill-fated Jimmy Buffett concert bus trip to Denver, the original latitude & longitude shirt and some of our newer shirts.
Here's a picture:
How many shirts do you recognize?
The quilt's not quite done; our friend Nancy put it together but it still needs to be quilted. Nancy did a fantastic job on it and we can't wait to see the finished product!
Typically we post stories on the blog 3-5 times a week. This week, however, we're taking a break.
Dave's having a baby! Well, his wife is. Which means the writer of this blog is unavailable and Dave won't be at the bar much, if at all, to see what's going on and provide stories.
If you've got great bar stories, email them to us at sandbar@thesandbar.com. We're always accepting guest blogs (subject to editor's approval, of course).
And we'll have more stories for you soon, including the one about the wacky Christmas night at the Sandbar.
It wouldn't be a holiday without a Sandbar staff-themed JibJab video.
Feliz Navidad from some of our bartenders:
Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!
And a very bizarre rendition of Winter Wonderland that Andrew will probably hate:
Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!
Have a great holiday season! We'll most likely be open on Christmas Eve and Christmas night, but not until later. It depends on when staff wants to open up. Pay attention to our Facebook page or Twitter account and we'll keep you posted.
