feb meeting

Forgot to remind everyone that we will be going to the red onion on feb.28th I believe mark this on your calander and let shelly know if you are coming so we can get the numbers right.

We had a great time in January. One of our members daughter is pregnant with twins and we gave her a baby shower. We all met at BJ's in Gaineville for a night of fun and fun and fun and fellowship. The wait staff at BJ's were very accomatating as there were 15 of us. They were so nice to bring an extra table so we would have a place to put all of the baby shower gifts and the waitress we had was very attentive and quick to get what ever the group asked for. aeveryone that I spoke to in the group stated that thier food was wonderful . They have a wide variety of food to choose from and a full bar. They even have thier own beer brands. We all had a great time and would recommend this venue to all. They really go out of their way to make sure that everyone is taken care of.

The month of December we decided to have a progressive dinner for our monthly meeting and what great fun it was. Two couples did each course at a different house. For appetizers and salad we went to Ron and Shelly's house and boy what a layout we had. They had several different appetizer's ranging from shrimp cocktail to dates that were wrapped in bacon, and all kinds of cheeses. The salad bar that she had was awesome as it had a little of everything that you could want on a salad. A plus was that Ron had several different cocktails for each to enjoy. After this course we arrived at our house where Jane and Jimmy had helped with the main course. We had pork tenderloin wellington, carrot souffle, steamed cabbage, potato's agrution, and asparagus with sesame citrus sauce of course there was plenty of wine to go with dinner. If this was not enough we then traveled to Ed and Laurens house for dessert and after dinner drinks they had help from Pete and Donna. I could have stayed there for awhile with all of the dessert. Cheesecake, pumpkin pie,, chocolate covered strawberries etc. along with this we had Irish coffee, and champagne. I would recommend that anyone in a group give this a try as we all had a great time and would do it again. It makes for many great memories for all or us.

Just reminding everyone that we will be going to the dragonfly on sunday the 15th of november. We will be meeting at 6pm see you there.

blue water bay

We decided to meet at blue water bay for our outing this month and even though only 3 couples showed up we all had a great time. Most of us had the buffet I would say seafood buffet but it did not have as much on it as it used to. I have been there several times and I was greatly disappointed at the buffet that was offered. I would not go back and get the buffet again as I thought the price was not reflective of what was offered. One of our group ordered steak and it was brought late and over cooked. I think that our experience this month was not one of our better choices and I am very sad as I have always liked going to this venue. I do hope that in the future they will try and make some changes to how they are doing things there and maybe then I will give it a try again.

Sunday we met for our August dinner at Leonardo's 706 in Gainesville. It was a place that most of us had not been in a long while. What a great surprise to us all that the food was wonderful along with the atmosphere. We were a group of 14 that had a wonderful time. If you are going with a large group I would suggest that you call ahead for reservations. We did and were placed in the private dining room with just our group. Our server was named Catherine (I hope that I spelled that right) and she was very attentive to all of us at the table. Everyone had a different dish which was nice as we got lots of feed back from each one, and nobody had anything bad to say about the food. The appetizers were delicious as I had the Cedar Key clams that were excellent. I thought that the price for them was a little high 13.95 for a dozen, but again were very good. The dessert is generous in proportion and all of it comes highly recommended by our group as we all tried different desserts and shared them up and down the table. The wine list is good and they also have a full bar to serve you from. I would recommended this establishment to anyone that would like to have a wonderful dinner whether you come by yourself or in a group.

Today I will write about our outing in July and that will catch us up until we meet this month which will be sunday nite at Leonardos 706. What a great time we had in july. Instead of going to a resturarant we decided to try a night of bowling with bowling food. We all met at the new alley called Splitz and it was great fun. The men were one team and the women the other. I have to say it was close on both games but I think the men won. It was fun watching how the men thought they were going to lose and then it was game on. THe food was ok. We had lots of snacky foods to try out. The bowling alley has great accomadations for groups if you are thinking about going. If you go as a group you can bowl by the hour or by the game. I think if we go again we will pay by the game hourly is kind of expensive and if yougo over your hour it is costly to finish your game. If you go as a group be sure and take the side with the couches as a waitress will take care of you and if you are on the other side they do not. Overall I think that all of us had a great time and will do this again it was fun to watch Rodger roll to the wall and jump up like nothing happened. I guess it was a good thing it didn't because we were all laughing so much we couldn't have helped him anyway. Hope if you have a group you will take the time to do something fun like this.