Nario Tribal Council

2 more days and i’ll be in RI, eating grandma’s delicious food, holding my beautiful neice julianna, and listening to family gossip, can’t wait! 6 more days i’ll be lounging at the pool, with a HUGE plate of pig, and karaoking the night away. i’m sooooooo excited. i can’t wait to see everyone! YAY!!!

Hey ya’ll! I’m finalizing my entries for best dish and best drink. What are the official rules of entry? My entries are non-traditional.. I’m excited to share them with you.

How else should a prison holding drug traffickers channel all their negative energy? Why, beauty pageants, of course! We latinos are so vain, that even in prison we wear gowns and want to compete in pageants. hahahhaha.

The annual Pigfest will take place on Saturday July 4th.

People are always volunteering to help. (If you want to help out come early or the day before) .

For the day of the event we are looking for bartenders (or for someone you know that we could pay?) (VOTE BELOW).

This year for the first time we’ll have (by popular demand) a DJ.

We’re also working on a couple of things that will be nice surprises / additions. [More to follow on this at a later date.]

People always want to know if they can bring something: If you want to bring a cooked dish or cook it here we can offer you a cooking-channel type kitchen with a 6 burner gas stove, 3 ovens and a 4th keep-warm oven. And two sinks.  If your dish is best done outdoors (like ribs) we can offer you 2 different grills to choose from (Coal of course). And of course plenty of mouths and fingers to help you sample and season it to taste.

If you want to submit name nominations for the guest of honor (aka Mr pig) – you can do so right here. Some of the previous names (for inspiration and to avoid duplicates) include:

• Raul (named after Castro’s brother)
• Atkins
• Bubba
• Bufford
• etc

Please note naming the Pig Fidel is an invalid choice. We are reserving that name for the day Cuba admits that Castro is dead and we will have an impropmtu pigfest to properly celebrate the occassion.

We’ll have at hand (like in previous years) cigars, cutters & lighters but this year no Cuban cigars. We found it resulted often in waste as some folks just lit them up briefly and left most unsmoked. We’ll provide Dominican cigars instead.

Unlike last years we’ll have tables with certain games including:

1. Dominoes (double 6 and Cuban style double 9)
2. Cubilette (a Spanish / Cuban dice game)
3. Naipes (Spanish cards and rules to play Tute and other traditional card games)
4. Pirates Dice (featured in the Pirates in the Caribbean movie) – Up to 16 people can play at once. Hysterical.
5. Movies / Concerts / music on large screen indoor – we also have a huge outdoor screen weather permitting for post sunset.
6. Inside Joke: A special musical tribute to Raphael (Martos) the Spanish Singer

We’re updating our Karaoke setup – in addition to video backgrounds (blue/green screen effects) we’re getting additional music.

Stay tuned for additional updates. – It’s not too late to plot something new for this event. Call or email with ideas!

Because it falls on a Saturday is easy to get here Friday Night and/or stay overnight on Saturday. Inflatable beds are still available but let’s face it they kind of suck — so working on better alternatives (stay tuned) but will be limited to 4 queensize spots. Past that we are back to talking inflatables, sleeping bags, sleeping on a couch or staying in local hotels.

In addition we have a regulation size basketball basket with clear backboard and adjustable height (from short to regulation).

There are also footballs, competition frisbees, bats and balls. And of course feel free to bring whatever.  There’re two nearby (walking distance of 5 minutes or less) fields from which to play all of the above and or go fly a kite or try to outsmart a fish.  Some kites available here or bring your own. Our fishing gear is in Florida so if that’s your pleasure please bring your own.

We also will have new water guns, which leads to dress code.

As usual, dress code is comfortable outdoor gear: shorts, t-shirts (or wife beaters) and sandals or flip-flops. Don’t forget a bathing suit and optionally a towel and/or sleeping bag. This year no need to go inside to change, we have a poolside cabana (no bathroom in cabana). And remember: “We don’t swim in your toilet, please don’t pee in our pool”.  We’ll have pee detectors on site.

Jacuzzi is fired up and ready to go — i don’t understand whats the popularity of a hot tub in July, but it always finds eager willing patrons.  We have a massage table but no masseuse. You must provide your own. And remember this is a family oriented rated G affair.  At least until kiddies go to bed.(wink)

We have come close but have never had rain or bad weather during the event.  - this is primarily an outdoor event.

In the drinking department we have beer on tap (refrigerated kegarator) and more liquor choices than some liqour stores – still if uncertain on your poison’s availability email or call ahead- will try to accomodate you.

For children, of all ages we have snow cones including our famous adult cones with alkyhal.  We’re trying to get our hand on sugar cane for the guarapo  (sugar cane juice) extractor machine. If  you can bring some, we would absolutely love it – if you have a choice, select canes with green “skin”.

Yes, (I can hear many asking) we will be having tequila shots and more importantly will be doing “sangritas” also- we may even do a repeat and order the Jennifer special glow-in-the-dark shot glasses. But no promises there.

We’ll have sunscreen available for all specially children (highest possible PF) and bug spray (for hardcore stay-late party goers). We always start out having swimming floaties (wings) available but sometimes we run out.

STAY TUNED FOR ADDITIONAL UPDATES AS WE GET CLOSER