My chapter had a great time at a Trivia Luncheon recently. Hosted by the Crismon Chapeaux, who did a wonderful job. Each table gave themselves a fanciful new name-- we were the Magnificent 7 + 3. In between courses, categories of trivia questions were read, and points were awarded for correct answers, according to how sure you were of the answer.
Our table started out slowly, but ended up victorious!! We gained some new friends- the best prize around!
We then went on a winery tour 3 days later- who could have guessed that the weather would decide to get HOT & steamy that day?!
First we went shopping-- at a darling little shoppe-- (got a new hat- but have to wait until my birthday to actually ownit - Mom bought it). Lunch and then off for our tour.
Toured the Borghese Winery, and our tour guide was the owner! She was marvelous! It was a pleasure - she truely seemed to love what she was doing. (besides being an actual princess- she married a prince!) The tasting was interesting and after we listened to music on the grounds. Our ride home, we still shopped-- flowers and pies.
Today, my chapter had a Teddy Bear Tea. The nicest part about it was that it was planned by one of my members! It's been a year and I've just gotten around to getting the ladies to host a monthly gathering. took the advice of alot of you and set up guidelines. I'm hoping it will continue. Next month 2 women are planning a game night.
The tea was fun. We all brought bear to share the story of. The food was excellent. And the Hostess printed up some word games. We had such fun laughing, eating and gaming, we totally forgot about our furry friends. At least we got them in the picture!
Well, off to figure out why my webpage is not playing music anymore. Hope you all have a good night!
Just wanted to share a wonderful experience we had last evening.
My Mom's church along with the many other faiths in the region, had an ecumenical celebration of Martin Luther King.
There was 10 choirs, speakers from the different faiths, there was even dancing to one song and we did sign language to another. It was so moving and beautiful. And so enlightening to hear from faiths other than my own. AND three of the ministers were women!! (yee ha)
Sadly, as with most events in a church, we didn't have as many in the congregation as we would have liked. Maybe next year..
But with all of us in the rec center afterwards- talking and laughing together- maybe his dream is still alive.
Let me tell you about a great time my chapter had recently. We went to a High Tea with Ethel Merman!! Actually the show was set as Faye Emerson's talk show from 1961. We were told about Ethel's life through the talk show, interspersed with her signature songs. The woman who played Ethel (Carolyn Benson) was marvelous, as were Christine Jordan & Lois Goelz!! We had a High Tea afterwards with the actresses coming around to greet all of us-- they never came out of character! It was fun. The Best thing was, that I had been contacted about this outing by another queen I had met at my first multi-chapter event! And I met a few more to join with on future outings! It was also the first time most of my members had done anything with any other Red Hatters. It may help them open up a little. I was so very happy with the day, I wanted to share it with you all.
