St. Patrick’s Day Float Build Information!
Thanks to all of those who showed up to our ‘pretend float build day.’ Now the real FLOAT BUILD DAYS ARE HERE!!
The REAL Float Build Days:
Float Build Weekend: Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10. We’ll reuse the buildings from last year, and paint/decorate them to look like Jimmy’s favorite hangouts in Key West.
Please join us to help build the float at Pete’s house (if you don’t know where that is, reply to this newsletter or send Pete a text):
Saturday, March 9 – 9am
Sunday, March 10 – 9am
It will most likely be muddy and/or wet in the yard, depending on the snowstorm heading that way for tomorrow, so please wear waterproof boots and something that can get muddy, just in case!
Due to an unfortunate ‘incident’ in Pete’s indoor bathroom during the ‘pretend float build,’ he will have to keep the door to the house locked. That means there will be no bathrooms on site. The outdoor one doesn’t have water to it right now because it’s still winter. People broke through the lock last year, and still used the outdoor one, with no water, so the toilet had to be manually cleaned out. That door will also be locked and secured shut. For bathrooms, you’ll need to plan accordingly, and take breaks and walk to 7-11 or drive over to Starbucks, McDonald’s or somewhere else to use their bathrooms. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we can’t have a repeat ‘incident.’
Please bring your own drinks; snacks to share; sunscreen; a chair for break time; and remember to wear old clothes to paint in!
Denver St Patrick’s Day Parade:
When: Saturday, March 16, 2024
Step-off will be 9:30am – we’ll start meeting at the float about 7:30am in the Parking Lot of Coors Field. More details will follow.
As always, you must be a member to walk with us in the parade. We will hand out 2 wristbands for a single membership and 4 wristbands for a family membership. You can pick up your wrist bands at the float build days or the morning of the parade. If you plan on picking up your wristbands the morning of the parade, please get there early, that way it won’t add to the stress of all the last minute things that come up on parade morning.
In case you haven’t heard, The parade theme this year is “We Are One” or “Mar a Cheile sinn” – at the heart of St. Patrick’s Day is unity and inclusion. We’ll do our best to include that along with a tribute to Jimmy Buffett!! Duffy’s Crane Service has provided the 53′ trailer again. We will have our friends, the “Groove Time Sitters” playing live on the float, and the buildings on the float will be some of Jimmy’s favorite hangouts in Key West. We will have bubble machines on the float. Bubble’s Up! We’ll be passing out bubbles to the kiddos and leis to the adults, in honor of Jimmy.
Please help us out by purchasing small containers of bubbles that we can hand out to the kids.
We DO NOT need leis, we have plenty. Judi Fulton made tags for the leis with our Club info on them and put the tags on over 2000 leis!! Now everyone who gets a lei will have our club information and will know who the Colorado Parrotheads are!
Amazon or The Oriental Trading Company are great places to get bubbles in bulk. We will have ‘disguised’ containers on the float to hold the containers of bubbles so you won’t have to carry heavy bags of bubbles, and you can restock as needed.
Get your BEST Parrothead attire ready for our parade so we can show the people of Denver a great tribute to our Captain!!
Don’t forget, Channel 2 will be featuring our club and our float on their broadcast of the parade, so wear your BEST Parrothead attire!
Watch for more info in next week’s newsletter on the details of Parade Day!
We need sponsors for our float. If you have a business, and would like to donate some money toward our float, we will hang your company banner on the float to advertise your business. We will also add your business info to our newsletter.
Talk to Pete for details!
Looking for something fun to do? The First Annual MargaritaWorld Festival is coming to the Downtown Las Vegas Convention Center!
Saturday, April 20, Join the group for a day full of sunshine, good vibes, and of course margaritas! Join the fun for live music performances from several members of the Coral Reefers, including Nadirah Shakoor, Doyle Grisham, Roger Bartlett, and Tina Gullickson. Also taking the stage will be the Stinson Brotherz in their own tribute to Jimmy Buffett and Alan Jackson, as well as Grey Street, a Dave Matthews Band Experience.
For Tickets and more information:
We are STILL working on a Colorado Parrothead Club License Plate! Robin has submitted the paperwork to the DMV, once it is approved, we will start collecting signatures.
We will need 3000 signatures to get this done. We’ll be hitting all of you up for your signatures for the petition as soon as the paperwork has been submitted.
Party with a Purpose
July 20 & 21
We have an awesome line up so far and are working on a few more!
Thom and Coley
Mike Nash
Kelly McGuire
Mark Mulligan
Rudy B
Michael Elick
and more!!
Watch for a special concert announcement for the end of June!! We are working out the details now.. but you won’t want to miss this one, it’ll be fantastic!!!
Meeting Schedule:
We will not have a March meeting, but we will meet somewhere after the parade for lunch. Stay tuned for details.
We’ll have a regular meeting in April.
MOTM Registration is OPEN!!!
When: October 22 – 27, 2024
Where: Gulf Shores Alabama
As Always, you must be a member in GOOD STANDING in order to attend. For more information:
https://motm.rocks
Fins up!
Parrot Head President, Pete!