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TIKI TIME TOUR
Jimmy Buffett comes in at number 19 with gross sales of 29.3 million on Pollstar's 2003 list of Top Grossing Tours.
A1A in Sioux Falls: Kick off the Children's Care weekend dancing away the winter blues this year at the El Raid Shrine Mosque on Friday, February 6, 2004. Shake off the icicles and shake your grass skirt dancing to the great live music by A1A and taste the sensations of Caribbean, Mexican, and Hawaiian fare by Theo's! The Beach Party starts at 7:30 p.m. and closes at 11:30 p.m. Great live entertainment by A1A of Atlanta will have you dancing all night long to familiar Jimmy Buffett tunes and beach dance music. Theo's will delight your pallet with a sun-burst of food including appetizers and food stations. Try Jamaican Chicken Jerk on a skewer, glazed BBQ Pork Loin, tropical fruits, and a surprising salad of crab, shrimp, fruit and lettuce. Visit the yukon gold garlic smashed potato martini bar and dessert cabana.Bid on fabulous items at the huge silent auction. This crowd-pleasing auction includes items for your home & office, family entertainment, art and jewelry, and much more! Open seating $40.00 a ticket. For more information please call (605) 782-2331.
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CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE IN MADISON, WIStory from ol' Havana Town
..from Marilyn Listvan and Jon Gaasedelen
12/26 p.s. (12/31) we are actually back now in the snow in MN :( it is amazing how few email addresses one can remember off the top of ones head in a few minute window....we were so amazed to find an Internet cafe in the middle of a snack shop in a historic, but rundown town in Cuba that we couldn't remember most people's eddresses. In Havana the first night we got to hear & meet some of the original members of the "Buena Vista Social Club" band & see them perform --- amazing --- even got autographs from them (from Pia V.)----if you have a chance to see the movie of the same title you will get a good flavor of what we saw/heard. Everywhere we ate meals there was live music (probably arranged for us tourists, but it was still great) --- The last night back in Havana we went to the big show at the Tropicana club --has been running since 1939--- was an outdoor venue with a "roof" of huge trees and an outstanding stage of layers so it seemed like there were 4 levels of dancers surrounding you. --- even "the
Hello all from Trinidad, Cuba, walking along and stumbled into an internet bar on the main drag.
Thought we'd drop a line and say Hola! We're OK.
Music is mui bonito.
Marilyn & Jon

revolution" did not stop this show (apparently Castro likes music, so even tho casinos and most of those sorts of activities were opened to the masses, who have no money, so casinos we saw were all abandoned-looking ---but the Tropicana still continued....no we did not see a Desi Arnez lookalike, but one of the numbers was Babbaloo!!) anyway, we got to sleep on the plane on the way home....which was less eventful than the outbound 5 hour delay and luggage taken off the plane & left in Miami after we saw it initially loaded ---only took it a day to catchup to us, so we each bought a nice souvenier shirt of the "Havana Club" at the Havana hotel that we had not planned on purchasing...and yes, there truly are many old cars running around Havana in various states of renovation/restoration or just held together. oh, and I have a few (!) pictures of it all --- & thanks to Jon's birthday gift to me last summer of a digital camera, I could get by with some extra media chips, rather than an extra suitcase of film...it also let me immediately show someone the picture I just had taken of them---which delighted them immensely, especially people outside of Havana many who had not seen an instant digital image of themselves before. all in all - the Cuban people were very, very nice -- the music was amazingly wonderful and we had a great time.