Wednesday, December 1, 2010

TBPH MEETING TONIGHT! Reminders and Happenings

Hellooooooo Tampa Bay Parrot Heads! Don't forget we have a meeting tonight at Whiskey Joe's. Bring your Lanyard with your name badge!

Be prepared to do your Parrot Head Christmas shopping! We have our PHeeding the PHlock Cookbook with proceeds going to Tampa Bay Watch! We also have some of the Saving Paddy Doyle Cd's with proceeds going to Save the Manatees. Both will make great gifts and help our charities.

Also, by special request from many of you, Tiki Doug will be set up next to the store selling is hand carved bone jewelery. He will be donating 10% of his proceeds to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in our clubs name.

I hope you all have made plans to attend our Christmas Party on Dec. 11th if not look for a flyer at the meeting.

We have a couple of unofficial happenings this weekend. On Friday night our on Captain Dom is inviting us out to hear his son at Snapper's for a Parrot Head Night!

Friday the 3rd of December, Danny Bianchi (Captain Dom’s Son) will be hosting the Snappers Comedy Club on us 19 in Palm Harbor!!
Parrot Heads, show your club ID and get in for half price!!
Enjoy all the comedy, and all the jokes that his son tells about Captain Dom!
Hope to see you there for a drink or 2 and laugh your butt off!! Dom

Then Saturday on the 4th, The Yard is hosting Sunny Jim & John Frinzi
This is a holiday special - two for price of one this Saturday, Dec. 4th at The Yard with Sunny Jim White & John Frinzi. Gates open at 6:00 for a meet & greet. They are scheduled to start playing at 7:00.

There is a $15.00 donation per person for the artists. Please bring a dish to pass, lawn chairs and BYOB.

As most of you are familiar with the Rough Riders and how they deliver teddy bears to children in hospital at Christmas time.....We will be collecting teddy bears for Rough Riders this Saturday.

Please let us know if you are coming and if you know of someone that would like to join us, please forward this email to them.

Mark & Sharon Leverett
theyardtampa@gmail.com
8016 N. Meadowview Circle
Tampa, FL 33625
813-493-1931

That's all I have for today! I hope I see you all there tonight!

Fins Up!
Your Skipper
Bryan

Monday, November 29, 2010

It's time for a Meeting at Whiskey Joe's on Wednesday 12-1-10

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and now in the Holiday spirit!

Make plans to vivsit the Fins to the Left store this week. We have a have some great Parrot Head items that make PHantastic gifts. Our Pheeding the Phlock cookbook and the Save the Mantee CD just name a couple.

We are also taking orders for this years MOTM shirt. If you didn't get stop by the store and order your's.

Please remember to wear your lanyard (name badge) with your current membership sticker on the back. This allows you to participate in the free buffet. If you need an updated sticker or need to renew your membership, see Shari at membership table.

Holiday Party - flyers available at the Welcome Court.
Come join us on Saturday, December 11th for the Tampa Bay Parrot Heads Holiday


Party from 7:30pm to 12:00am. BYOB, a dish to pass and either a canned/non-perishable food item or unwrapped child's or pet gift for our charity.
Treasure Island Community Center
1 Park Place @ 106th Avenue
Treasure Island, FL

HOTEL INFO. FOR HOLIDAY PARTY
17 rooms are reserved for our Holiday Party at the West Winds Resort. The room rate is $99.00 for 1 bedroom and $129 for 2 bedroom plus tax, a night per room. All rooms are NON-SMOKING suites with full kitchens; 1 bedroom sleeps 4 and 2 bedroom sleeps 6. Private pool and 2 blocks from the Treasure Island Community Center.

Call 727-363-4807 and ask for Jim or dial 727-366-6778 (Jim) to get the Parrot Head rate.
Rooms will be available at this rate until 12/1/10! First Come.First Served!


West Winds Resort (www.westwindstreasureisland.com)
10265 Gulf Blvd.
Treasure Island, FL 33708





"While not officially condoned by the Board of the TBPH Club, salty language, alcohol-induced playfulness, and partially-clad bodies are not unheard of at some TBPH events where members have been known to act out the lyrics of popular Jimmy Buffett songs. Every member has a choice to attend or not if they could be offended by these actions."

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Davis Island Beach Cleanup on Saturday

This is always fun cleanup with a PHantastic after party at Elmer's
There are two set of directions below so if one doesn't get you there hopefully the other one wiill.
I want thank Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, Cougar, Loni, Dorothy, Judy & Roy for helping put this together.....thanks for pitching in so we can pick up! See you all Saturday at 10:00!

To those who have never done the Davis Island Cleanup

From downtown Tampa…..
Ashley exit or Kennedy from the west….. to the University of Tampa

Right in front of the University of Tampa, turn and go south on south Hyde Park Blvd.(Away from the University). Follow that road south and it will go over the Davis Island Bridge and continue south. Follow it for another mile or and you will run into the outer fence of the little airport. Follow that fence in a counter-clockwise direction. Drive past the airport terminal and follow the road another block or so and you will be in the boat ramp area. (almost to the yacht club). This is where we will meet.

When we go to party, take the road back in the opposite direction and turn right onto Bayshore Blvd toward downtown Tampa. Follow this road past the Ice Palace, past channel side, past the cruise terminals, around the roundabout and north to 60 (Adamo Drive). Wander a couple more blocks north to 7th avenue in Ybor City and follow 7th to Elmers 2003 7th Ave.

Here's the address for Peter O'Knight airport. We'll meet just past the airport at 10am to cleeaannnnnnnnnnnnnnn the beaches! Our after party is at Elmer's and the directions from Davis Island to Elmer's is listed below.


Peter O Knight Airport-Tpf
825 Severn Ave Tampa, FL 33606
(813) 251-1752

Elmer’s Sports Pub – 2003 E 7th Ave in Ybor City.

1. Go North on Severn Av  800 feet

2. Bear right onto S Davis Blvd  350 feet

3. Enter S Davis Blvd (rotary); take the 3rd exit to S Davis Blvd  1.9 miles

4. Bear left onto Davis Islands Br 1000 feet

5. Bear right onto S Plant Av  0.3 miles

6. Take South Crosstown Expwy Toll East ramp (toll required for some segments) 2.0 miles

7. Take Exit 9 (22nd St, Ybor City) on right 0.2 miles

8. Take BUS US-41 N (SR-45 N, SR-585 N, N 22nd St) ramp (toll required for some segments) 450 feet

9. Turn left onto BUS US-41 N (SR-45 N, SR-585 N, N 22nd St) 0.2 miles

10. Continue onto SR-585 N (N 22nd St)  0.3 miles

11. Turn left onto E 7th Av 600 feet

12. You are at 2003 E 7th Ave, Tampa, 33605-3901, Hillsborough County, FL, USA

Monday, November 15, 2010

TBPH Meeting on Wednesday 11/17/2010 at Whiskey Joe's

It's time for another phlocking at our new home...Whiskey Joe's


Please remember to wear your lanyard (name badge) with your current membership sticker on the back. This allows you to participate in the free buffet. If you need an updated sticker or need to renew your membership, see Shari at membership table.

Starting at this weeks' meeting and for every event going forward, we are going to have each member sign in. This will make is easier for us to calculate volunteer hours for PHIP and when concert time comes around know who "volunteers when called upon". The sign-in sheet will be available at the meetings at the Welcome Court as you come into WJ's.

Cleannnnnn the beaches! It's our last clean-up of the year, Saturday, 11/20/10 at 10am. Meet at Davis Island just past the airport and just before the yacht club. You can sign up at the meeting or email cougarforpresident@gmail.com before 11/19/10. This is a t-shirt event, so you want to make sure that you have given Cougar your size. After party is at Elmer's in Ybor City. Come and enjoy one of Paula's famous margarita's!

Holiday Party - flyers available at the Welcome Court.
Come join us on Saturday, December 11th for the Tampa Bay Parrot Heads Holiday


Party from 7:30pm to 12:00am. BYOB, a dish to pass and either a canned/non-perishable food item or unwrapped child’s or pet gift for our charity.
Treasure Island Community Center
1 Park Place @ 106th Avenue
Treasure Island, FL

HOTEL INFO. FOR HOLIDAY PARTY
17 rooms are reserved for our Holiday Party at the West Winds Resort. The room rate is $99.00 for 1 bedroom and $129 for 2 bedroom plus tax, a night per room. All rooms are NON-SMOKING suites with full kitchens; 1 bedroom sleeps 4 and 2 bedroom sleeps 6. Private pool and 2 blocks from the Treasure Island Community Center.

Call 727-363-4807 and ask for Jim or dial 727-366-6778 (Jim) to get the Parrot Head rate.
Rooms will be available at this rate until 12/1/10! First Come…First Served!


West Winds Resort (www.westwindstreasureisland.com)
10265 Gulf Blvd.
Treasure Island, FL 33708

"While not officially condoned by the Board of the TBPH Club, salty language, alcohol-induced playfulness, and partially-clad bodies are not unheard of at some TBPH events where members have been known to act out the lyrics of popular Jimmy Buffett songs. Every member has a choice to attend or not if they could be offended by these actions."

Monday, November 1, 2010

Skipper's Blog From Key West 11-1-2010

Hellloooooooooooooooooooo Tampa Bay Parrot Heads


I wish you all could have been able to join us for MOTM in Key West but for those of you that can't be here. There will be another exciting meeting at our new home, Whiskey Joe's, this Wednesday, 11/3!

We are fortunate this year to have all of new officers down here for the MOTM festivities. Of course I am here already, I have already seen our Yeoman Doc Susan Moyers, our First Mate Mikeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Olson and new Purser Bob Odom will be down here I think Wednesday. We will do our best to represent you in Tampa Bay Parrot Head style. I want to thank Loni (our current Yeoman), for holding down the fort while the rest of us our down here.

Fins Up!
Your Skipper "Crews Director" Bryan


TBPH Happenings
Zoofari - Saturday, November 6th - Judi Haverkamp will be signing up volunteers for the Zoofari. We need 15 volunteers to represent TBPH at clean-up. Judi will have details on the time and where to meet, etc.

Mayor's Davis Island clean-up - Saturday, 11/20 - Sign up with Loni at the meeting. This is a t-shirt event, so please give us your t-shirt size. After party at Elmer's in Ybor City. If you haven't had one of Paula's famous "hand poured" margaritas - you are in for a treat!

Holiday Party - Saturday, 12/11 - save the date! More details to come!