Tipsy Turtle Weekend!!!

We had another great weekend down here on the Emerald Coast. Friday evening started out great. I took a new route home and was able to miss a bunch of the traffic saving about 25 minutes on my drive. That was a reason to go out and celebrate! LOL   We headed to Friday’s in Destin. We saw several of our Parrothead friends there. It almost looked like a phlocking was going on. From there we went down to the harbor to hang out at the Tipsy Turtle for awhile. We wanted to make sure all the details were covered for having Jan playing there Saturday night. We got a big bowl of Jambalaya from Royal Cajun who was there serving again. Matt took good care of us and everything was set for Saturday. We left the Turtle and decided to head to the American Legion for some karaoke. Capt. John, Julie and Suzanne were there. I sang “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and Sunshine Cindy did three songs. She has an amazing voice.  Brought the house down. It was fun.

Kelly doing his version of "Sweet Caroline"

Saturday morning was spent getting the Crab Island Mambo Mullet Wrapper published. I had to work through some issues with my Cox email service. About noon we went to Friday’s to celebrate Father’s Day with Sunshine Cindy’s parents. That was nice spending time with them. After that we got ready to go to the harbor. We loaded up our merchandize and off we went. Wayne was already there when we got there. Turtle (Yes, there really is a “Turtle” at the Tipsy Turtle!) gave us free reign on setting up our stuff. Jan and Loujean got there and we helped Jan unload and get set up. He did a great job performing. We ended up with over 25 total Mambo’ians come and go during the evening in addition to the normal traffic on the harbor. We sold some merchandize, Jan got in front of a new audience and Tipsy Turtle sold a lot of beer. We actually drank them out of Michelob Ultra! At the end of the evening everyone was happy!

Crab Island Mambo on the Harbor!

We were able to do some networking too on Saturday night. Matt introduced us to Brian, the owner of Landshark Pizza in Destin. He is thinking about advertising on our web site. We will go see him this week. We are also talking to the Royal Cajun folks about maybe doing some cross stuff too. Pretty cool.

Sunday we slept in late then hit the pool in our community. It was a perfect day and we enjoyed just relaxing for a while. We had made plans to go back to the Turtle Sunday afternoon to eat some more of the shrimp. We were out of the car for only a few minutes walking up to the place when we ran into Julie and Trish. The other Julie was on her way. A new father/daughter duo (Summer Breeze) were playing music. They sounded great. More friends were coming and going. Brian from Landshark and his wife Sue were there again. Eventually Capt. John, Dave, Marilyn, Sabrina and Alex all stopped by after spending the whole day on Capt. John’s sailboat. It turned into another fun afternoon/evening at the Tipsy Turtle.

Tourist coming back into the Harbor

The docks have been packed with people. Sunday was actually busier than Saturday but that is because Saturday is changeover day for everyone in town on vacation. As Russ used to say, “What Happens in Destin leaves on Saturday!” Have a great week. See ya Thursday…