Reply by Elaine Sedlock on 2/9/08 9:10am Msg #234777
Good Morning to you! Hope you enjoyed your trip!
Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/9/08 9:19am Msg #234779
Thanks Elaine But you guys didn't have to save the rain for our return It was raining hard when we arrived back
Reply by Elaine Sedlock on 2/9/08 9:26am Msg #234781
Hey, at least it didn't ruin your cruise! I take it you had
a nice time?
Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/9/08 9:28am Msg #234782
Re: Hey, at least it didn't ruin your cruise! I take it you had
Yes, it was relaxing, except for the first full day as I had a hellacious migraine all day
Reply by CJ on 2/9/08 11:16am Msg #234794
Thanks Sylvia
When I was a kid, my dad played this music and Herb Apert at his parties. He would put tiki torches in the backyard, and mom would wear a paper dress and a hair piece. They would put us to bed and I could hear all the music and laughing. I could hardly wait to grow up so I could wear a paper dress and dance to this music by the tiki torches.
Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/9/08 11:38am Msg #234799
Re: Thanks Sylvia
OK - so now that you are all grown up, do you wear the paper dress and dance to the music by the tiki torches? EMWTK
Reply by CJ on 2/9/08 1:44pm Msg #234805
for enquiring minds
I can't find a paper dress or a hair piece. But I think about throwing a party like that. People would have to wear their mod '60s outfits.
I remember one time there was a party accross the street. Dad and mom dressed really hip, and then they hopped on his motercycle and drove around the block really loudly, then pulled up to neighbor's house.
Oh yeah, he also played the Baja Marimba band at his parties.
(They would put me to sleep in their bed during the parties because I would talk too much and keep my sisters awake. No problem, there was plenty of space on that king-sized bed to build forts with all the pillows. Then I would put on all of mom's costume jewery and go to sleep in the fort. )
Reply by BrendaTx on 2/9/08 2:08pm Msg #234806
Re: for enquiring minds
CJ, Your life sounds "cool" like the ones we "grits" only saw on television. The closest thing to a party I ever saw was Ice Cream Supper socials at church.
What a colorful life it must have been in California in the 60's!
Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/9/08 2:44pm Msg #234808
Re: for enquiring minds
Look at the Oriental Trading Post catalogue, believe it is online. May not have paper dress, but they have the "grass"skirts and other items for Hawaiian style parties
Reply by ZeeCA on 2/9/08 12:14pm Msg #234802
wb S! n/m
Reply by Margaret_FL on 2/9/08 6:04pm Msg #234817
Hope your cruise was better than mine. All we got was rain, rain and more rain. My mother was a huge Herb Albert fan, loved it
Reply by Sylvia_FL on 2/9/08 6:19pm Msg #234821
No rain until we got back to Port Canaveral
That was Al Hirt, not Herb Alpert
Reply by BMoon_FL on 2/10/08 7:43am Msg #234851
My father was a professional musician his entire life. His last fifteen years were spent in New Orleans, where he and my step-mother lived in the French Quarter and he played at the Monteleone Hotel in the Swan Room and also at the Court of Two Sisters. When he died at 54 (in 1966), I rode a train that broke down, transferred to a Greyhound bus, then to a taxi, and arrived at his funeral just as it was beginning. The amazing thing was Al Hirt was at his funeral, and even the elevator operator from the hotel. Meaning there was such a wide variety of people. Anyway my stepmom said he was always very much a gentleman and that my dad called him a "musician's musician". As a side note, my dad was also an arranger and copyist and did arrangements for Peter, Paul and Mary and some others of the day.
