Kat's 9 Lives

Alright it is what you have been waiting for!~ I have a bunch of tickets to give away for The Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival starting next Friday to Sunday, September 14th-16th.

Thanks to JackHammer Movement for providing me the tickets.  I will be giving out a total of 5 pairs of tickets to 5 lucky readers! 4 people will get a pair of admission tickets (for one day) so they can join the fun of great food, great music, shopping, rides, games, and more! Lobster meals can be purchased at the entrance and be sure to double up because for only a little bit more you get to have twice the fun of cracking those tasty crustaceans!

Did I mention FREE LOBSTER?  Well you heard right because I will be giving a pair of First Class Tickets which include : First Class Tickets include a weekend admission (including Friday), one guaranteed Maine lobster meal, front of the line privileges at the lobster meal line and the bar and your own dining area along with collectible poster from the rock artists at The Uprising Creative. All First Class Tickets come with one beverage of your choice, but you must be 21 or older to consume alcohol. Your First Class wristband will get you in the gate and to the front of the bar and meal areas!

Each person can enter up to 3 times with the following methods :
1 ) Post a comment here with your full name and guest, as the tickets will be held at will call
2 ) Tweet at me with your full name and guest (http://twitter.com/kats9livez) @kats9livez
3 ) Post a comment on my Facebook Fan Page (http://www.facebook.com/foodiextraordinaire) with your full name and guest



Entries will end at 8:00 PM on September 11th.  The winner will be chosen at random and be announced on September 12th.  Please check back after September 11th to see if you have won the tickets.  If you would like me to email you, please leave your contact information along with your entry.  All tickets will be held at Will Call under the winners name.

Please feel free to contact me via email, Twitter, or my Facebook Fan Page if you have any questions.

Best of luck to all my readers and may you always lives be filled with yummy lobster to eat!

So here's the 411. I was given a pair of tickets to give to a lucky reader! If you missed the OC Fair New Year's Eve Block Party Preview, don't worry there is still the main event. Come out to the fair grounds to enjoy live music through the eras, comedy hypnotist, karaoke, and a vast amount of gourmet food trucks! I am going to be hanging around the BACON MANia Truck! =D My new best buds.
Can't wait to celebrate the New Year with great food, music, fun, and great company!

To enter in the contest just do one of the following:

1. Join my Facebook Fanpage
   
2. Follow me on Twitter
3. Follow with Google Friend Connect
   

Each one you do will be an extra entry into the drawing.

After you have completed an entry or all entries, be sure to comment below with your name, which of the 3 you did, & a way for me to contact you if you are the winner. Or if you don't want to share your personal info online, please leave a comment to let me know how many entries and you can e-mail me directly at findkats9lives@yahoo.com
Hope everyone has a Happy Holidays and see you at the OC Fair New Year's Eve Block Party!

For more information click here. I have also found a website with deals on the tickets if anyone is interested. $20 per ticket.

You might ask why did I write an article/post about myself before this one... well it is the first leg/challenge of Project Food Blog! There's America's Next Top Model, Top Chef, Project Runway, and more! Why not the first ever Food Blogger challenge to find The Next Food Blog Star. I hope everyone can support and help me by voting!

Get your friends and family to vote and join in the fun. It is a new digital age and food bloggers are definitely part of the future. I wish everyone the best of luck, great food, and great fun!

Please Vote! =D

Thanks to all my loyal readers and friends. This has been a great event and I hope everyone enjoyed it as well. Just in case anyone was wondering how I did the drawing, I wrote every name from the clues on a sheet of paper and cut them up then put all of it in a bowl and drew the names out. **Drum Roll Please**

The winners of the ZAP Zinfandel Grand Tasting & Cookoff are:
1) May Pig
2) Trekkie

Congratulations you two for each winning a pair of tickets. I will submit your name at Will Call so just pick them up there! ^_^ I hope you all have a wonderful time there! I'm sorry that not everyone can win but be sure to check out the festival even if you didn't win free tickets. Be sure to purchase them online ahead of time to get the best deal on the tickets. Have fun and a great week everyone! ^_^

This is a first for Kat's 9 Lives. I am going to actually put up an email for people to contact me as I am going to host my first contest for tickets to the ZAP Zinfandel Grand Tasting and Cookoff in Newport Beach on April 18th. By chance the wonderful people at Great Taste Magazine, www.great-taste.net, left me a comment to ask if I would like to host a contest for my readers. I thought to myself, "Why not? It's a great chance to give back to my readers and I love festivals." As many of you know I am an avid attender of festivals these days, so it fit perfectly.
First, lets talk about the details of the event.

Event:

Date:
Time:
Location:
Ticket Prices:

The event sounds like a great learning experience for those who don't know much about Zinfandel and to pair it off with some delicious hors d'oeuvres. You can enjoy wonderful wine as well as learn about the passionate history from the winemakers. It should be a grand event of taste and culture. If you love wine, then you would probably be in Heaven as you can try many wineries all in one place and have as much as you like! I love seeing the different types of glasses that are meant to be used for each type of wine and most likely you will be able to take home the glass as a commemorative. I just hope they are giving out the wine glass neck straps! ^_^
Onto the most important part... as part of the collaboration, I have been given 2 sets of tickets. Yes, 2 PAIRS. So 2 of my loyal readers who participate in the scavenger hunt will each be rewarded with 2 tickets so that they may bring a loved one, a family member, or a friend to join them! ^_^ Can't let you go alone now can I? It is always more fun with people you know. I have decided to do a scavenger hunt on my website.

How will that work? Well, I am going to plant clues on my posts in the comment section where you will have to click the link to find an easy answer about Zinfandel. Then you will have to post the answer where the clue is to show your participation. Do NOT e-mail me the responses, but leave the answer on the original post where the clue is found. Here is the good news, the more you participate the more chances you have to win the tickets. Every clue you find and answer will add one more entry into the drawing. If you feel comfortable enough you can leave your e-mail for me to contact you if you win or you can e-mail me your contact info after you have won. The contest will end at Midnight, 12:00AM PST, on April 8th. I will post the winners name in an announcement on April 13th so be sure to check back.

Keep in mind there are only 4 tickets to be won by 2 of my readers, so if you are really interested in this event you should definitely purchase tickets! I am going to end the event early so that if you don't win, you will have time to purchase tickets online. It's a great chance to mingle with other locals who share a love for wine and for you to have a wonderful time. Tell your friends about the event and contest. I know that you might think it will lower your chances of winning, but if there is a wide response to this event then we might get more tickets to give away. Like I said, the more the merrier! Cheers!

Quick Review of the Contest:
~ Comb through my posts to find the clue, answer the question, and post the answer in the comments section of that post
~ Every clue that you answer in the comment section will be one more entry in the drawing
~ At the end I will randomly draw from all the people who answered the clues
~ The contest ends at Midnight, 12:00AM PST, on April 8th.

If you have any questions or confusions please feel free to ask me in the comments and I will respond to them ASAP. Good Luck to everyone! I hope you have fun looking through some old reviews and learning something about Zinfandel. Ready, get set, go! ^_^ New clues will be popping up all the time.