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NOVEMBER 2004
On November
20 a few of us met with Queen Alice and her girls from Smithsburg MD and carpooled to the Boyd's Bear Factory in Gettysburg
PA. It was an absolute gorgeous site, all decorated for the holidays, live music being played, and warm fuzzy bears
and such everywhere you turned!!
We had time to shop, and
then met for lunch in the resturant there. Our meals were delicious, and we ran into and sat next to another Red Hat
group from somewhere in MD. so....with our 18 ladies and their 15 all sitting together there was purple and red as far
as the near-sighted eye could see!!!
Some of the ladies went
on to shop at the local outlets there and found some great bargains, I hear!! It was a lovely, fun Saturday, a nice
break from the pre-holiday rush and bustle!!
December
2004 Holiday Playtime
For our
December playtime we all met at Bob Evans Resturant for yummy dinner and desserts. We found out more (sometimes
too much more!! hehe!!) about each other playing a "Naughty and Nice" game. Very Fun indeed!! We had a gift
exchange and brought home some awesome things.
Alice, who
is queen of her own Red Hat chapter, said she had so much fun with us, she wanted to join our chapter, so she is now
an honorary Iron Butterfly! Queen Cheryl decreed it, and it was so!!
The Royal
Highness of Hilarity (our queen) bestowed upon everyone their royal un-official titles and dubbed them using her
new pink and lavendar sceptor that Honorable Hysterian Crystal gave her. You can see what our titles are
on the members page. We made plans for who would plan the next few months outtings.
We laughed
a lot, played our kazoos some and just enjoyed a break from the holiday rush and spent quality time with each
other!!
January 2005 Play Time!!
Happy New Year!!
Our 1st time
to play together this year, we braved the cold (like 15 below with the wind, I think! Bbrrr!) and met at Matriarch
Mom Alma's house. We proceeded to whip out our guns (glue!), unroll our chains (of pearls and beads!) and
made designer purses, complete with satin, beads, feathers, pompoms, and other embelishments!! You are saying, perhaps,
"How do you make a purse out of these things?!" Well, you use a BRA, of course!! Yes, we made bra purses,
and boy, did we have fun doing it!! This was one time we could honestly say that cup size didn't matter!!
We then hung
our purse creations to dry, bundled up and went to Fratelli's Italian Cafe for a nice, yummy dinner, and more fun
and chatting! Only a few of us we able to come this time, but we had a blast just the same!!
February/March 2005
Due to
Mother Nature, our Feb playdate was actually in March. We braved another freezing evening and all met at TGI Friday's
for an evening filled with fun, friendship, and silliness. This was a casual playtime since it was kind of a quickly
rescheduled "snow date".
Three
new hatters, Susan M., Jackie, and Bonnie, joined us for the 1st time!! All of them took our not-so-solemn
vows and are now esteemed Iron Butterflies!! We welcomed them with hugs and a hearty toot-toot on
our kazoos!!
We had
a blast playing Truths and Lies, sharing fun facts and fibs with each other! Our dinners were awesome, and desserts
were sinfully good as well. We all left full and happy, looking forward to our next playdate later this month!!
Again,
welcome to our newest sisters in silliness!!
APRIL 2005
WHAT A FUN TIME WE HAD THIS MONTH!! WE MET AT GARFIELD'S RESTURAUNT AND HAD A SURPRISE BABY SHOWER FOR SUSAN W, PRINCESS
WITH THE PEA!!
SHE GOT A REFRESHER COURSE IN WHAT SHE'LL NEED IN THE DIAPER BAG FOR DIRTY DIAPER CHANGES. THINGS LIKE:
1.DUCT
TAPE TO HOLD THE BABY DOWN,
2.SAFETY
GOGGLES FOR THE PROVERBIAL PEE FOUNTAIN,
3.RUBBER
GLOVES TO KEEP HER HANDS CLEAN,
4.SPATULA
TO SCRAP THE POOP OUT OF THE CRACKS,
5.A
FAN TO DRY BABY AND PREVENT RASHES, ETC.!! SHE GOT SOME AWESOME, FUN GIFTS FOR HERSELF AND BABY ?? AS WELL!!
WE HAD ROYAL RUB-A-DUB-DUBBINGS FOR JACKIE-BARONESS OF BAGS, SUSAN M-TZARINA OF ALL TANGARINA AND BETTY-EMPRESS
OF EVERYONE, COMPLETE WITH BUBBLES AND OF COURSE A ROUND OF KUDOS ON OUR KAZOOS!!
MAY
2005
THE LAST TUES OF MAY WE MET AT CUP O' JOE, A QUAINT LITTLE COFFE SHOP IN GREENCASTLE, PA. IT WAS OPENED JUST FOR US
TO HAVE A PRIVATE PARTY. JESSICA, A GRADUATE OF YORK CULINARY INSTITUTE, PREPARED US A LOVELY MEAL OF ITALIAN WEDDING
SOUP, FRESH FRUIT CUPS, ASSORTED SANDWICHES, RED VELVET CAKE ALONG WITH ASSORTED TEAS AND COFFEES. EVERYTHING
WAS DELICIOUS...STOP BY IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA...YOU WON'T BE DISAPOINTED!
WE HAD 2 VISITING LADIES, SHARMON AND LIZ, WHO BOTH SAID THEY WANT TO BECOME OUR NEWEST BUTTERFLIES!
MORE LADIES=MORE FUN!! WE'LL GIVE THEM THEIR ROYAL SWEARING IN AT AN UPCOMING PLAYDATE!!
MANY THANKS TO OUR BARONESS OF BAGS, JACKIE, FOR PLANNING THIS OUTTING, AND THANKS AGAIN TO CUP O' JOE FOR A GREAT EVENING!!
JUNE
2005
WE STARTED OFF SUMMER IN YUMMY CULINARY STYLE!! WE MET AT AN ESTABLISHED PLACE IN HAGERSTOWN, A RESTURAUNT CALL
"ALWAYS RON'S" (FORMERLY RON'S DELI) FOR BEVERAGES (SOME ADULT!), DINNER AND DESSERT. TALK ABOUT DELICIOUS!! THEIR
TUESDAY SPECIALS WERE AN A.Y.C.E. CHICKEN SLIPPERY POT PIE MEAL AND A CRAB LEGS FOR TWO DINNER!! I THINK WE ALL HAD
DOGGY BAGS TO TAKE HOME, AND SOME OF US DON'T EVEN HAVE A DOG!!
WE PLAYED A FUN "I-B-R-H-S" GAME (actually B-I-N-G-O) AND CRYSTAL, HONORABLE HYSTERIAN WON A CUTE LITTLE PIC FRAME FOR
HER DESK AT WORK!
QUEEN CHERYL HELD A HANDS-ON GROUP LESSON ON WHAT SHOULD GO INTO EVERY LADIES UN-OFFICIAL RED HAT SURVIVAL
KIT. IT WAS QUITE INFORMATIVE (HE-HE-HE), AND INCLUDED SOME MUST-HAVES SUCH AS A PAPER CLIP, A TWIST PRETZEL,
2 COTTON BALLS (LIZ!), STARBURST CANDY, A LITTLE BLUE PILL (CRYSTAL!) JUST TO NAME A FEW. EVERY LADY ATTENDING WAS GIVEN
HER OWN PERSONAL KIT TO TAKE HOME WITH HER, SINCE IT IS "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST" IN THIS WACKY WORLD, YA KNOW?!
WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORAWRD TO NEXT MONTH...SOME OF US MAY TAKE A TRIP TO GETTYSBURG FOR RED HAT SOCIETY DAYS JULY 23
& 24. OUR REGULAR MONTHLY PLAY DATE IS ALWAYS ON THE LAST TUES OF THE MONTH! COME JOIN US ANY TIME!!
JULY 2005
This month we all got together at the
Duchess of Dining Brenda's lovely home for some delectible taste treats!! We got to nibble on and sample all
sorts of bread, cakes, sauces, dips, etc. (Strawberry Rhubarb spread and Chocolate Chocolate sauce...Yum
Yum...and how about that cheese ball, girls?!!) Our hostess with the mostess gave us some wonderful ideas and recipe
tips to make things "tastefully simple".
We had a favorite recipe exchange,
everyone bringing copies to share with our sisters, and we each told what made these recipes our favorite.
We played 2 games: one that
told us what our favorite type of cake tells about our personality. The other was a pass-the-bread-mix game, and our
Matriarch Mom got the prize on that one...quite fun!!
There were 2 new ladies to recieve their
rub-a dub-"dubbing" this month!! Yeah!! Liz's new royal title is COWntess of Caring and Sharmon
is hereto and forever more our Dancin' Diva!! Both are pink hatters, so our group has quite a few "ladies in waiting"
now....look out, age 50, here we come!!
We discussed our next months playdate
(check future events here on our site) and a secret sister card exchange from now til the end of the year!! The fun
will never stop if we keep at it, girls!!
Much thanks and big Iron Butterfly hugs
to our Duchess for an awesome evening filled with fun and laughter!!
August 2005
THANK YOU to Jo and Jan for our playtime this month!! We had so much fun!
Each of us got a Red Hat change purse that is so cute!!
They cooked great burgers and really awesome weineys (big!! yeah baby!!), had drinks, the best
Jello shooters! A few of us had so many we probably jiggled when we wiggled out of there toward home!! Everyone
else brought yummy things as well, and we had no duplications, so we did good! Everything was yummy!
We played a few fun games, and had the 1st of probably more to come "Torching of the Tampons"
on the grill to comemorate my hystericalectomy I had earlier this summer! Make a note to yourself: if in a snowstorm
and in need of a fire, don't rely on your plug to provide it! You'd think all that cotton type stuff would
lite up quick...not!! We had fun, just the same, and had a lot of laughs and bubbles, thanks to a handy dandy bubble
machine!!
We missed those of you who couldn't come.
September 2005
This month was another quickly re-planned casual playdate.
We had so much fun at Always Ron's a few months ago, we decided to go back again. We all had delicious dinners (no crab
leg specials this time, though...waaa!) and some indulged in dessert.
All the girls brought their purses chuck full of stuff, even more than
usual, and we had a crazy purse scavenger hunt game. Baroness of Bags Jackie, who could also be named Seductress
of Shopping, had almost 60 of the items asked for in the game!! Let me tell ya, she had a pile of stuff all over her
end of the table!! Not one lady, however, had the kitchen sink---go figure!!
We agreed to have our Oct playdate the 1st Tues in Nov since a special
guest will be in town then...check out our Future Playdates page for more info, and come join in our fun!!
As always, we missed those Butterflies who were flitting around somewhere
else and couldn't join us.
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