Mood:  party time!

The Seabreeze Jazz Festival starts April 13th at Aaron Bessant Park in Pier Park and is set up to be the biggest year ever.

The lineup for each day is as follows:

Wednesday April 13

Dinner and Entertainment abroad the Lady Anderson. Cruise departs promptly at 7pm, Dinner will be served. Dinner will be a selection of hot entrees (Seafood, Carved Beef and Pasta Dishes), Vegetables, Salad, Fruit, Rolls with Butter and Dessert. Coffee and Tea. A Cash Bar will be available. Following Dinner Jazz Entertainment will be provided Eric Darius. Meet and Greet and CD signing to follow. Cruise will return to the docks at 10pm. Given that the cruise is on the Lady Anderson, I would assume that it’s going out of Captain Anderson’s Marina, but it’s not stated on the website.

Thursday April 14

3 pm – Free kickoff concert at Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville in Pier Park.  Dotsero is playing. 5 pm – VIP entrance to Aaron Bessant Park. 5:15 pm – General admission to Aaron Bessant Park. 6 pm – Roman Street. 6:30 pm – Boney James. 8:30 pm – George Benson

Friday April 15

3 pm – Meet and greet at Borders in Pier Park. 5 pm – VIP entrance. 5:15 pm – General admission entrance. 6 pm – Seabreeze Rising Stars: Nicholas Cole, Julian Vaughn, Marcus Anderson. 7:15 pm – Joey Sommerville. 8:30 pm – Gentlemen of the Night: Warren Hill, Marion Meadows, Paul Taylor. 10:30 pm – After party at Reggae J’s hosted by Eric Darius and other various artists

Saturday April 16

8:30 am – VIP entrance. 9 am – General admission entrance. 10 am – Dostero. 11:30 am – Cindy Bradley. 1 pm – Eric Darius. 3 pm – Euge Groove. 5:30 pm – Brian Culbertson. 7:30 pm – Summer Jam: Norman Brown and Richard Elliot. 10:30 pm – After party at Raggae J’s hosted by Eric Darius and other various artists

Sunday April 17

8:30 am – VIP entrance. 9 am – General admission entrance. 10 am – Jones & Company. 11:30 am – Robert Harris. 1 pm – Mindi Abair. 3 pm – Ken Ford. 5 pm – Candy Dulfer. 7 pm – Guitars and Saxes: Gerald Albright, Krik Whalum, Peter White, Jeff Golub

 You can find more info at: Seabreeze Jazz Festival

Also, check out PCBDAILY for a change to win tickets to the event. Details at: PCBDAILY.COM

Mood:  energetic

Students from the Geography and Environmental Science Student Association will be hosting a UBB cleanup at Panama City Beach. FSU’s GESSA is an organization of dedicated members that want to make sure our oceans stay clean.

• Begin: March 26, 2011 at 10:00
• End: March 26, 2011 at 13:00
• Place: Panama City Beach, FL

More details can be found at

http://unitedbyblue.org/events/events/gessas-ubb-cleanup-at-panama-city-beach/

Mood:  celebratory

Pier Park celebrates Mardi Gras this weekend. Panama City Beach’s Pier Park open-air lifestyle has two days of fun, food and entertainment.

Friday, March 4- (5pm): The streets of Pier Park are closed to vehicular traffic and the second line parade begins as spectators form behind the brass band waving handkerchiefs, parasols or their arms in the air.

Saturday, March 5- (10am): Festivities kick-off with a kid’s parade winding through the colorful mix of stores and restaurants in Pier Park

(11am-2pm): Kids can participate in a fun-filled activity center as well as participate in a pirate costume contest, treasure hunt, face painting and mask painting.

(2pm): The Mardi Gras parade with King, Queen and Court begins,  as floats make their way along Front Beach Road and march through Pier Park.  The fun continues after the parade with live entertainment, regal costumes, masks, beads, trinkets, Cajun fare including gumbo and low-country boils, and much more.

(9pm): The evening ends with a fireworks display over the Gulf.

Both days are open to the public with free admission.

Mood:  energetic

Vision Airlines is in the process of becoming a scheduled air carrier with service to 23 cities mostly in Florida and the south. The airline will have the new Northwest Florida Regional Airport near Destin/Fort Walton Beach as its hub for destinations in Florida. The airline, which has been in the charter business for 16 years, put together a business plan focused on offering flights departing from southern U.S. cities that it says lack low-cost, direct jet service to destinations in Florida. They say that people in these cities mostly fly in regional jets, endure long layovers while connecting through other cities, and pay high airfares.

Vision Airlines now offers Boeing 737 jet flights on direct routes that other airlines do not fly.

You can finish reading the article at

http://aero-news.net/index.cfm?printable=1&ContentBlockID=83daf6ac-788e-4ad5-822e-1dc2a4458436&

Mood:  celebratory

I haven't blogged in a while as I've not been back to PCB in a while. I did want to share a website that has photos from New Year's Eve at Pier Park. Looks like they had a great crowd and it appears they all had a great time. This link is from pcbdaily.com which has great information.

http://pcbdaily.com/pier-park-nye-2010

We were there during Thanksgiving and the weather was nice for the most part. Out toaster stopped working so we bought a toaster oven as I've had requests for that. 

They are still working on Thomas Drive. Supposedly the utilities are suppose to go underground soon. I need to check on this though as I've not had a report lately about the construction. It is suppose to be done sometime this year and the drawing of what it is to look like is very nice.

Mood:  lazy

We had a wonderful 8 nights in PCB. We had 80s all week long with no rain. Green flags the first half of the week. I think it was on Wednesday when it was cloudier and windy causing yellow flags the remainder of our stay. I understood the yellow on Wednesday, but the rest of the week seemed more calm. Maybe they need a greenish yellow flag. lol

Went to the beach most afternoons. Played Gold on 2 occassions at the par 3 Holiday Park course. Love it there as you have the place to yourself, so if you are self consious on your play, I recommend this place.

We also try and do some things while we are down there, so we had our blinds repaired, The sofabed sleeper mechanism replaced along with the mattress. Also notice the disposal and one of the kitchen lights out, so had maintenance repair the disposal and had the ballists replaced on the one light fixture.

The new airport is nice, BUT if you fly Delta, be prepared to use the stairs when boarding and departing the plane as their gates are on ground level. Looked to me that Southwest had all the gates with ramps. Another bad thing with Delta gates is that there were hardly any chairs at all. We had to sit at the next gate behind a wall and there was no announcement that they were boarding. Luckily some other people looked and saw that they had started boarding, so we went over there. Another thing is it is more like a 25-30 minute drive while the older airport was only 15. 

We may go back at Thanksgiving if we are not booked, we so enjoyed ourselves.

There are still some dates available before the snowbirds arrive, so get your last fix of PCB in before it is too late for the year.

Take Care,

Linda 

Mood:  lazy

We had a wonderful 8 nights in PCB. We had 80s all week long with no rain. Green flags the first half of the week. I think it was on Wednesday when it was cloudier and windy causing yellow flags the remainder of our stay. I understood the yellow on Wednesday, but the rest of the week seemed more calm. Maybe they need a greenish yellow flag. lol

Went to the beach most afternoons. Played Gold on 2 occassions at the par 3 Holiday Park course. Love it there as you have the place to yourself, so if you are self consious on your play, I recommend this place.

We also try and do some things while we are down there, so we had our blinds repaired, The sofabed sleeper mechanism replaced along with the mattress. Also notice the disposal and one of the kitchen lights out, so had maintenance repair the disposal and had the ballists replaced on the one light fixture.

The new airport is nice, BUT if you fly Delta, be prepared to use the stairs when boarding and departing the plane as their gates are on ground level. Looked to me that Southwest had all the gates with ramps. Another bad thing with Delta gates is that there were hardly any chairs at all. We had to sit at the next gate behind a wall and there was no announcement that they were boarding. Luckily some other people looked and saw that they had started boarding, so we went over there. Another thing is it is more like a 25-30 minute drive while the older airport was only 15. 

We may go back at Thanksgiving if we are not booked, we so enjoyed ourselves.

There are still some dates available before the snowbirds arrive, so get your last fix of PCB in before it is too late for the year.

Take Care,

Linda