Dragon Boat West

Hi everyone,

The Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival has contacted me and asked if anyone Westcoast teams would be interested in racing at the Marine Stadium located at Long Beach (July 28-29th).

For those Canadian Teams, let's go down there and take all their medals back to Canada....

There are 13 divisions that you can pick from:

Divisions Fee** Total:
A. _____ International Open 500 meters
B. _____ Women’s 500 meters
C _____ Mixed Division 1 500 meters
D. _____ Mixed Division 2 500 meters
E _____ Mixed Division 3 500 meters
F. _____ Masters 500 meters
H _____ College 500 meters
I. _____ High School (18 and under) 500 meters
J. _____ Jr. High School (15 and under) 500 meters
K. _____ Elementary (12 and under) 250 meters
L. _____ Corporate 500 meters
M. _____ All Female Cancer Survivors 500 meters

www.lbdragonboat.com www.ladragonboat.com
2007 Viewsonic Long Beach Dragon Boat Festival
July 28-29, 2007 - Marine Stadium, Long Beach

Now, here's the offer, if you PM (Please provide your name and Team that you belong too)me, I can provide you with the deatils of how much it will cost.....trust me, it's a good deal....

****DEADLINE*****

Please let me know by no later than June 15, 2007

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For example, here is what they've offered already....

*Free dinner on Saturday night--catered Chinese buffet at the Seaport Marina Hotel
* Hotel room will cost about $75-85/night and sleeps up to 4 people.
*  Van rental from LAX is about $150/day for 15-passenger van; drive to venue is about 40 minutes.

NOTE: Exchange rate is great right now... 1 Canadian Dollar   = 0.94171US
Puppy

Dam.
Thats the same weekend as Vernon

come one come all Canadians :)

is that the same Mike from LARD that did the slip and slide with some of us canadians in san fran last year? 


anyways



anyone trying to pull together a crew?  if so, lets start talking.

yeah lets pull a team together...

 Can we form a team and call us Spirit of Vancouver. Have a logo made up allready..

First, let's find 22 bodies first....depending on the number of participants from each group/team, you need to then determine the team name.

If the team name is Spirit of Vancouver, would there we some Extra "funding"? if so, how much.

thanks

I'm the only Mike from LARD.  I was at SF last year but did not do the slip and slide...

Hmmm......

Sure you're not mixing this Mike up from another team? Say Absolute Dragons maybe?  :lol:

Mike, If you didn't slip and slide you missed out, but then again, if you didn't slip and slide you probably didnt guzzle a few beers behorehand, so you really missed out.

I gotta give it to the canadians on that one...between the beer garden at Alcan and the Slip and Slide in SF you guys have all the drunken fun covered.

c'mon over to my neck of the woods. Long Beach is LARD's home town, can't get much better than So Cal.

Will

no remember that guy from LARD?  maybe his name wasn't Mike, but i thought it was.  then again i was drunk.  maybe it was this Will guy.  (hooray for beer)


ah there we have it, must have been you.  Gotta give more credit to the Absolutes from SF on that one, they masterminded that whole thing, but good times all the way around! 

So, Long Beach in 6 weeks!  Should we be expecting any Canadian teams?    :D :D :D

Doesn't sound like it....

The reason, there are races in Vernon, the same weekend....

I have to say, Absolute knows how to have drunken fun.  I don't know of a Mike on the team though.

As the race organizer's legal counsel, i'll make sure all canadian teams have an additional 50 meters added to their race...  :lol:

Nah, but in all seriousness, you guys should all come down - and i will GUARANTEE NO RAIN!!!

LOL! this guy.. :P

we were just unfortunate to have the rain clouds over us that weekend =p
but great weekend nonetheless!

But how about 90+ degree weather?  :lol:

true, but do you have a BEER BONG down there?

there's been this wild rumor that there is a beer bong floating around somewhere in so cal....  ;)

unfortunately, the LBC does not have a beer garden.  :(

but then again, we don't have dragon dollars... :)

san fran didn't have a beer garden either, that didn't stop anyone!   :lol:

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Check out this eBay Listing.  8))

I've seen this seller sell a 30 person beer bong. lol.  If we all chip in and get two 20 people beer bongs, we can get some REAL Dragonboat races going  :lol:

what are the public drinking laws on Long Beach?  e.g. non-glass open containers OK?

i thought it was NO drinking allowed, excepted in licenced areas.  that's how they target certain loiterers.  of course i learn everything about america through baywatch, so don't quote me on this.