I attended the club leaders meeting and met the oldest active parrot head, Larry Dungan, age 90! He was having a great time! Some interesting facts that were given during the club leaders meeting: Since 2006, PHIP has been keeping track of all monies donated by all of the chapters. To date that amount is 19.2 million dollars. That is amazing! Your work with CPHC is included in that figure. CPHC had acknowledgement in the PHIP financial report for our $3,000 donation to the scholarship fund. Yeah CPHC! There were 6,000 tickets available to parrot head clubs for Jimmy’s concerts this season, only 4,000 were used. There are now 238 parrot head clubs around the world. The parrot head nation continues to grow and with that growth many causes are helped.

Now to my favorite part of the convention, the music! Peter Mayer’s concert at the Studios of Key West was by far the most amazing evening. Joining Peter were brother Jim Mayer on bass and R.Scott Bryant on percussion. If you love Beatles music, this was the concert to hear as they played many cuts from Peter’s latest CD Goodbye Hello. New arrangements of those familiar songs we all love. Thursday evening at the Casa brought out the Boat Drunks warming up the audience despite a few rain sprinkles. Mac McAnally fired up the crowd his story telling and amazing songs. He was joined by Mr. Utley, Robert Greenidge, Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer and the lovely Tina Gulickson known as Club Trini. There was something about standing on the beach singing Christmas songs under palm trees, it was a moment! Club Trini has a new Christmas CD out this season and they played some of the songs for all to enjoy. When they played Gypsies in the Palace the crowd was a rocking! It was a great night of music for all. The temperatures on Friday became a little chillier and the winds began to blow but that did not keep this band of gypsies from singing and dancing on Duval Street at the annual Street Fest. CPHC’s own John Patti IV was seen and heard with many performers throughout the convention. Check out John’s new CD Cabana Breeze! Saturday’s Beach Bash was chilly but the bands kept the crowd warm. All in all, it was another great time in Key West! So much music, late nights at Louie’s, too little time to take it all in! I think we punched all of our fun tickets for MOTM 2010. Make plans to join the phlock as we return for Don’t Stop the Carnival MOTM 2011 which will be the 20th anniversary. You never know who will be stopping by!

Till the next time we meet!
Fins Up /\
Kathy Graves

I would like to thank all of the folks that made the trip to Key West and represented CPHC. A good time was had by all! As I met our fellow CPHCer’s through out the weekend I was excited to see that everyone had a great big smile and was having a blast. It truly was a good time and true to form as a “PARTY WITH A PURPOSE”.

I would like to send kudos to several club members who participated in the Zonta 5k run/walk: Tom Schisler, Kevin Budney, Marie and Rob Betz. Thank you for taking the time to participate for such a worthy cause!

Kudos to Tom Schisler for donating blood for the blood drive! You are a good man! (I have this needle phobia thingy – panic attack – I’m a mess!) Let me know if I missed any other club member that was brave and gave blood.

Below you will find some final words from our Director of Conventions, wrap up for the blood drive as well as the toy drive. Parrot Heads are amazing people!!!

Our Lost Shaker of Salt Gathering at the Conch was a huge success with Woody Hall finding that Lost Shaker. Woody received a $25.00 gift certificate to Margaritaville. Great job Woody!

The winner of this year’s Golden Coconut award was the San Antonio Parrot Head Club! Congrats to a job well done! CPHC won this award in 1997.

The CPHC Board of Directors would like to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope that you will enjoy this day gathered with family and friends.

Thanks for all you do to make a difference!
Kathy G.