Tiki Float

Alexis Goldhagen (third from left) and her friends from flight school built a tiki bar during the COVID-19 stay-at-home order

When life handed Lake Martin’s Alexis Goldhagen and her friends from Auburn University’s flight school a stay-at-home order for coronavirus, they did what any reasonable college students would do: They built a floating tiki bar.

The owner of Lake Martin Flyboard, Goldhagen and her mates were visiting family in Tampa, Florida, over spring break when she saw a tiki bar that friends there had built. Since the five friends were together when the order for coronavirus safety came through, Goldhagen’s parents, Drs. Paul and Michelle Goldhagen, told them all to come back to Lake Martin for the quarantine period.