Cornhole is on hiatus until September 14th while we have our Pocket Fisherman Tournament
and Hampton Bay Days!

Join the craze that's sweeping the nation!  Cornhole is a cross between horseshoes and bean bag toss.  It's REALLY big in Ohio, so you know it must be fun! :)
 
Beginning July 2008, Cornhole will be played on the back deck at Marker 20 every Sunday. Signup starts at 3:30pm. Play starts at 4pm.  Each Sunday that we have eight teams participating, we'll up the competition by giving away a cash prize!
 
So grab your friends, come on down, and get it in the hole at Marker 20!
 
(Sorry. That's really crass, but I couldn't help myself!)

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Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Captains' Meeting:  10am
Weigh-In & Deck Party:  4pm
 
Grand Prize (Heaviest Fish):  $300!!
2nd Prize:  $150
3rd Prize:  $50
Highest Total Weight of Three Fish Caught
by an Individual:  $100
 
$40 Entrance Fee Includes...
Your very own Popeil Pocket Fisherman
Fishing License for the Day
Fish-tabulous Deck Party at Marker 20

Stop by Marker 20 to sign up or
send email to

On Sunday of Labor Day Weekend, come on down to Marker 20 for our first ever Pocket Fisherman Tournament. (Possiblly the first ever Pocket Fisherman Tournament.) Meet up at Marker 20 at 10am for the Captains' Meeting where you'll receive your Pocket Fisherman and fishing license. Then go forth and catch fish. All fish must be caught with the Pocket Fisherman in the mighty Hampton River north of the Settler's Landing Road Bridge. Fish from a boat, a dock, or even a hovercraft full of eels for all we care. Just get back to the deck at Marker 20 with your catch by 4pm for the weigh-in.
 
"Why the Pocket Fisherman?" you ask? Well here's the deal... Every few years, Carlyle would bring up the Ron Popeil Pocket Fisherman... how cool they were and how he wishes he could find one. I (Chrisi) got really sick of hearing about it. I felt that he was only bringing it up so he could say "Popeil Pocket". Carlyle's a man who loves alliteration. Don't get me started on how many times he's worked in the fact that we live near Rip Rap Road!! But I digress. I finally went to my local Walgreen's and picked one up for him, thinking that would be the last of it. But nooooo! Now he wants to make a whole fishing tournament out of it!
 
So Sunday, August 31st, we're going to give it a whirl. If you participated in or heard anything about our Freaky Kon-Tiki raft race earlier this year, you'll understand that our sporting events are part competition, part wacky, and mostly an excuse to hang out with friends and drink beer. So don't worry too much about your fishing skills!
 
ps. I was trying to work the following phrase into the advertising for this, but never found a place. So I'll stick it in here... Is that a Fisherman in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

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For three quarters of a century, it has been illegal for restaurants in Virginia to serve Sangria, that great Summertime refresher.  You see Sangria is wine mixed with various fruits and that demon brandy.  I guess the prohibitionists thought slipping the brandy in there would cause otherwise upstanding wine drinkers to be subverted into drinking the hard stuff, the first slippery step to moral depravity!
 
But after an Alexandria restaurant was ordered to pour ten gallons of Sangria down the drain and then fined $2,000, the law was challeged and repealed!
 
The new law goes into effect July 1st, 2008.  In honor of this momentous event, Marker 20 is celebrating with Sangria Week July 1st through 7th, 2008.  We'll be serving up our house made Sangria and other south of the border specials all week!

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Can YOU Do the Freaky Kon-Tiki?
Read the Daily Press article about it.
 
 
 
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