Cali Eat Your Heart Out, We're Hangin' with the King of Spring
There are keg-stands on the beach, beer pong tables built in the sand, & a drive thru bar!! What!?! This is not the America I know; this sounds like another country.... Where are the Hollywire Girls? Eat your heart out Hollywood, we're at Spring Break in Florida!!
Ya, Panama City Beach Florida really makes us Hollywood Girls feel like we've entered another country--a drive thru bar? WTF? As long as the driver isn't drinking--it's legal! (Or, so we thought...)
Ice chest after ice chest on the beach full of beer--legal!
Drinking while your standing in the lapping waves of the ocean--legal!
Having all your friends hop in the tailgate of your truck as you're driving down Front Street (the main strip on the beach)--yep, you guessed it--legal!
Okay, Hollywoodies, get this--drinks, you wanna guess how much?! OMG, your just not gonna believe this: we got TWO FOR ONE vodka crans for $4.25-- HOLY SHIZER! $4.25 for not one, but TWO drinks! We aren't in Cali anymore.
It gets even better. We just left a bar where the bouncer came up to us and said, "Are you ready for our beer party?" And we're like, "Sure." He's like, "Gimme your hand." Stamps us up with the "Maniac" stamp and hands us a cup. Then the bartender pours us beer...we're like, "uh, wait wait wait, how much is this?" "Free."
"FREE." No, that's not a typo. It's freakin' "Free" from 7pm til 9pm! Who does that!?! Who gives out free beer? We're definitely not in Cali, but I can't even believe we're still in the United States. No wonder this is the Spring Break Capital of the World. 100,000+ students arrive here every March to party their tushies off and party hardy they do.
We pulled in around 10am yesterday and we we're like, "Well this isn't all that exciting...I thought it'd be more crowded....I expected a rowdier crowd..." Blah, blah, blah... well, it's just that everyone was still sleeping. Why? Bars don't close unitl 4AM here!
HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, I thought California was supposed to be a liberal state. Uh, we're not lookin' so liberal next to Florida. There's so much personal freedom here that it's downright contagious--I wanna get on a stinkin' skooter and skooter my butt up and down that Front Street without a helmet, then get out on the beach with a drink in hand, and follow that up by having my DD go thru the drive-thru bar!
It'll all happen shortly I'm sure. I'm sitting here chugging down my free beer while I'm writing this article--as soon as I'm done, you know where we are headed: party party party time.
But for now, here's a video of the KING OF SPRING, Kevin Ogborn, and the Beach Blast party in front of Harpoon Harry's (which us Hollywire Girls have aptly nick-named "Hangover Harry's")...stay tuned for more vids tomorrow.
The King of Spring has been throwing Spring Break parties for 11 years and he gives students exactly what they want: lots of contests, lots of good music, lots of fun, & lots of prizes--prizes galore. All sponsored by Absolute Poker, Coke Zero, and Melansol...
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The Beauty and the Beach contests are the BEST. Girls & guys showing off their hot bods in an attempt to win a photo shoot with Runway magazine. Surprisingly, none of the girls flashed their boobies to the crowd of chanting dudes. Also surprisingly, the drunken crowd chose the 'all natural' girls as winners over the Fake-Bobbie-Barbie (Panama City Beach Spring Break '09 Edition).
The preliminary judging of the hottest bods was done by Jonathan Bennett from Mean Girls & Van Wilder: Freshman Year (He's freakin' hot & friendly! Deadly combo.) His fellow judge was Leilene from VH1's Charm School and Flavor of Love. One of the female contestants was not too happy when they eliminated her in the 2nd round--the poor loser was still venting to Jonathan a full 20 minutes after the contest ended. He took all with a great sense of humor, jokingly saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but America voted. They all called in and voted. There was nothing I could do."
The beer pong (on the beach!) contest, poker contests, and pool tables are a big hit with the boys. And, not to be missed are the Beach Blast Olympics--teams of 10 go head to head in ridiculous beach activities: build the tallest sandcastle with the only rule being that 1 packed bucket of sand must top the castle--peeps get creative with that by standing on top of each other and just having one bucket of packed sand on top of the top person; other favs: Tug'a'war, building people pyramids, & racing back from the ocean so that your team can cover you in sand. Fun fun!
Californians take notice and loosin' our state up already!
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