A Pirate's Life in Ocean Shores, Wa.

What an amazing weekend.

 Pirates, wenches & mermaids came from far & wide to join the fun in beautiful Ocean Shores, Wa.  This weekend was a fund raiser to support the Ocean Shores Food Bank & PAWS of Ocean Shores. There was 565 pounds of food collected over this weekend.  

Don & I arrived Friday afternoon, January 25th.  We had a third floor suite at the Best Western Lighthouse.

It was a beautiful room with a full ocean view and fireplace.  

The view from our balcony.

After unpacking, we drove down to our favorite Ocean Shores hangout, The Galway Bay Irish Pub.

 The menu includes traditional Irish food.  If you've never eaten there, by all means, give it a try. We love the place.  The pub's musical guests were a Irish Celtic band called Bowi.  I'd heard good things about them & was pleased to have the chance to see them live. They're very talented people.  It was a lot of fun.

Saturday was all about pirates....

 We were up bright and early Saturday morning for the Pirate Gear & Garb Swap Meet.  There was all kinds of pirate & wench goodies for sale including, weapons, clothing & jewelry.  It's always fun.

The highlight of the morning for me was the opportunity to have photos taken by Randy Foster.  I was so excited he was there.  I've admired his work for a long time, especially his photographs of pirates & mermaids.  He's truly amazing.  He and his wife, Sandy are such nice people.  The more I learn about them, the more I realize how truly special they are.  I feel lucky to have had the chance to get acquainted with them both.

(We didn't have our portraits when I wrote this blog.  Please visit HERE to see them.)

From noon to 2pm, the Rogue Mermaids took over the swimming pool.  They were fun to watch.  They're handmade mermaid tail are gorgeous.  There must have been fifteen mermaids in the water together.  Each tail was unique from the others. Beautiful.

At 2:30, we had our group photo.

What a fantastic group of people.

Next was the pub crawl.....Yay!!   We visited three local Ocean Shores Pub.  All three have a pirate feel to the atmosphere.  We stopped at The Pirate's Cove, The Porthole Pub & The Galway Bay Iriish Pub.
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We played a treasure hunting game at all three pubs.  I think most pirates won a prize or two.  I won a box of chocolate candy. Don won a rum cake.  The rum cake was quite yummy.

All these treasure maps were rolled by Pirates Dan & Carrie.  At last count I heard they rolled over 1800.  That's quite a lot of their time.  I hope they know how much everyone appreciates them.

Debbie, myself & Mark

We had dinner again at The Galway Bay Pub with our friends Mark, Debbie & Scott.  I love, love, love the freshly baked soda bread & Magner's Cider Beer at the Galway.  Good stuff.

The Pirate's Ball started a 8:00.  There was live music & lots to eat & drink. Everyone was dressed in their pirate best.  There was lots of dancing & laughing as everyone said hello to old friends and new.

Don & I at the Pirate's Ball on Saturday night.  We had a great time.

Beverly, Rachel & Monty

Singing Pirate Tugboat Bromberg

Pirates & wenches at the ball.

Beautiful mermaids Iona & Meghan in land attire.

Gunpowder Gerdie--She always looks amazing.

Todd & Melissa.  I love her skirt.

And.........Death.

Lots of people put hours of hard work into making this fabulous pirate event a success.  It's one of our very favorite annual events.  We would never miss this one.  I hope each and every person knows how much their work and time is appreciated.  The whole weekend was a huge success.  We can't wait for next year.

Thanks so much for stopping by. -- Jan ♥♥