Sunshine Cindy and I had a busy weekend. We started out Thursday night at Chips. We wanted to get out of the house for a while and with Chips being right across the street it is perfect for us. We sat inside where Becky was behind the bar. Stephanie was working the outside bar. Friday night was her last night at Chips as she is moving to Utah where her husband is working. We have known Stephanie since her days at Baby J’s. She will be missed.
Wes and Thomas at the Cantina
We had some food while watching some sports. I had something I never had before…a Boudin Po-Boy. Chips has authentic Cajun food and their Boudin is like what you get in Louisiana. I loved it. The place was pretty busy. They had a special on wings for $.10 each. A lot of folks were there having them. We talked to Tommy and a few others and headed home.
Friday night was special. It was our last “Embrace the Chaos! Trop Rock Music Series at the Cantina” show of the season. We had from Nashville, Wes Loper playing for us. He brought Thomas Jenkins with him to play the fiddle. They put on a fantastic show. We had about 40 people show up and it was a real party. The sunset Friday night over the Bay was perfect. There were even some Parrot Heads from Oklahoma and Mississippi who just happened to walk by stop and party with us. We could not have asked for a better close to our music series.
Group pic from the Cantina
Saturday kept the good times going. Sunshine Cindy and I went to her parents house to take the boat out. Her Dad has it running again so we all went out for a ride. We rode over to Bluewater to have lunch at Schooners. We tied off and went in for lunch. When Sunshine Cindy lived in Bluewater we would go to Schooners all the time but it has been a year or two since we were there. Lindsey worked there when we used to stop and she is now the bar manager. She remembered us and gave us a hug.
Lunch was good and we were able to relax and enjoy the weather. We got back in the boat and cruised around some of the bayous. As we came out of one of the bayous we saw something in the water. We passed right by it and it was a Manatee. They are very rare in our area. We tried to spot it again but we could not but just seeing it once was pretty special. We got the boat back into the boat house and we didn’t even need to be towed! LOL
Dancing to Wes' music
As Sunshine Cindy and I headed home we decided to stop at Hooters for some wings and drinks. Hooters is right around the corner from our house so we would be close to home. College football games were on as we sat at the outside bar. You get a different type of crowd at Hooters. There were some bikers at the bar, a local guy who seemed to have every waitress come up and sit with him for a while and then you also had some families and grandma types. We talked to the chick magnet guy and enjoyed our food. By now it had been a long day so we got in Badass and headed home. We slept well that night.
Sunday was spent working on a multitude of Crab Island Mambo things. We are preparing for our trip to Key West and our “Crab Island Mambo Welcome to the Island Party” on Oct. 29th. (http://www.crabislandmambo.com/Crab-Island-Mambo's-Key-West-4th-Annual-Welcome-to-the-Island-party.html) This is going to be another great party at Dante’s. Everyone is welcome to stop in and join us!
Southern Drawl Band in Key West last year
Sunday evening I was watching the NFL national game on NBC between Denver and San Francisco. At one point Peyton Manning through a touchdown pass. As they were getting ready to head to a commercial and showed Peyton in the background you could hear the song “Rocky Top” playing. Peyton played at Tennessee so that was a logical tie-in. But as I heard the few seconds of the song I thought it sounded like our friends at Southern Drawl Bands’ version. They have a great version of the song that is like an anthem in Tennessee now.
About an hour later Facebook started to explode with comments about the song. It was the Southern Drawl Bands version. Someone had a 10 second recording and you could clearly hear Mike Nash singing and the guys playing. How cool. Move over Hank Jr. and Faith Hill….Southern Drawl Band is coming!!!
Okay, this week we will finish our preparations for our trip down south. We will try to sneak in a trip to Juana’s on Thursday to hear Thom Shepherd perform. We shall see if we can do that.
Have a great week. See ya Thursday!!!
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