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| Beach, sunset, food, and fire. What could be better? Thanks everyone for helping to make this a successful event. |
| They won! |
Thanks Tara for organizing another bowling event. We have some serious bowlers. |
Another fun time. Two hours of bowing, food and drinks. We also had a fifty-fifty raffle and prizes for the winners—and biggest loser. Thank you Tara and Bala for creating such a fun event. And thanks to Bernie for doing the raffle. |
This was a great event. We had terrific food that started with a charcuterie board for an appetizer, followed by a salad bar. Dinner was chicken picatta. The several flavors of cheesecake for dessert. We played two trivia games. We are all now up on our movie and Broadway knowledge. Prizes were won and raffled. Sherry and Cherry won Left-Right-Center and went away with the most cash. We had a fair amount of merry-making topped off with counting down to the mirror ball drop and singing Auld Lang Syne.
The fun, the meal, the games, the prizes are all due to the deligent work of our party committee, Lynn Ashby (Chair), Bernie, Emily, Karen along with helpers Laura, David, Liz, Joe, Abel. A big thank-you to the committee. Thanks to all the people who helped, donated prizes, and stayed to clean up. |
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| We laughed ourselves silly. |
| A big thank you to Kenroy and Abel for putting on this event. Thank you Liz, for taking photos of our event. Thank you Butch for providing the ice for our drinks and thank you members for attending, it was a fun time! To those of you who missed it . . . next time! |
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| Tina, Jeannean, Vicky, and Kenroy |
Thom, Vicky, Tara, Joe |
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| Remmy, Tina, Butch, Emily |
Abel, Alan, Alice, Sam |
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| Lucas, Bernie, Alex, Cynthia |
Ivan, Jeannean, Diane, Lee |
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| Tara finally got us to Seal Beach for a walk. After being cancelled several times due to rain, the event landed on a beautiful brisk day. Blue skys with a bank of clouds to the south. We met at the base of the pier and walk along the beach at low tide. Afterwards we stopped at a coffee shop for beverages and snacks. Thanks, Tara, for you persistence in getting us out there. |
| Barbara and Don, Tara, Liz, Mike, Gary, Allen, and our photographer, Alice. |
| We're getting better. We had a small group but a challenging course. Don, Bala, Allen, Alice, and Liz made up the group. The course included around, over, or through hills and trees; a sidewalk (not out of bounds) and a playground pit and the street (out of bounds). There was a lot more "sending" of opponents. We did not however, play the "poison" option. Thanks Don, for putting this together and for the croquet lessons. |
| Karen Fried and David Bornstein hosted another savenger hunt and trivia quiz. This time the games were Christmas-themed. Bernie, whose house is totally decorated for Christmas, was able to round up the most items. Liz won the trivia portion answering such questions as, where did St. Nicolas originate, where was eggnog invented, and what is the most common topper for a Christmas tree? Thanks David and Karen for a fun event. |
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| David, Karen, Liz, Lynn, Don, Barbara, Tara, and Bernie |
| Karen Fried and David Bornstein hosted a scavenger hunt Saturday evening 11/14/20. And they added a Thanksgiving trivia quiz at the end. We had quite a few laughs and raised our step count as we hunted for the items throughout out homes. Liz and the Likens tied in the scavenger hunt and Liz eeked out a win in the trivia quiz. |
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| David, Karen, Liz, Nancy, Tara, Barbara, and Don |
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| Some of the things we had to find. |
| Trivia: What US President made Thanksgiving a national holiday? |
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| We gave it another try. This time the weather cooperated and the day was beautiful. What didn't cooperate was the "hill." Some of the pros got past it, but some of us spent an inordinate amount of time going up one side and down the other. Is there a mercy rule in croquet? Thanks Don and Barbara for putting this together. |
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| Bala, Tara, Gary, Don, Liz, Audrey |
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| We traded in our tennis rackets for croquet mallets and spent a morning wacking our balls around the park. We played two rounds—one, regular and one, Don's mixed up version. The biggest decision—whether to take two shots or to send our opponent's ball off course.Thanks Don and Barbara for putting this even together. |
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| Liz, Tara, Barbara, Don, Alice, Allen |
Liz, Allen, Tara |
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| Barbara shows us how it's done. |
Go Green! |
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| Those of us who participated
had a good time. We had four temas, Laura and Bernie, David and Karen, Jeannean and daughter Elise, and Liz and Lynn. Laura and Berine won in the team competttion and Lynn won in the individual competition.
And the questions were not easy! |
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| We got a chance to enjoy the great outdoors in a rural setting rarely found in a city. Thank you Don for organizing. Behind those masks are Alice, Allen, Bala, Tara, Barbara, and Don. |
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A Great Day Out
The Fearsome Fourteen braved rattle snakes and stink bugs to hike in the wilderness of
Crystal Cove State Park. We met at the Civic Center and carpooled to the day use parking lot of the park where we staked out a picnic table and regrouped for our hike.
We all hiked together up to the first trail split. Some returned along the "easy" trail, others went further along that trail, and the intrepid took off on the "moderate" trail that entalied a pretty intense incline. The effort was rewarded with a long downhill stroll with views of the ocean.
We all met up afterwards for a brown-bag lunch at the picnic area. We enjoyed our lunches and played a few Trivial Pursuit cards as a warmup to the Trivia Night later this month.
The weather was perfect, the company good, and NO snakes! Although, stink bugs were out in force. |
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CAN YOU TOP THIS?
Well, if you’re talking parties, the recent Christmas soiree, planned and hosted by Abel—with valuable assistance from Liz, Rosemarie, and Kenroy—would be hard to beat. With a big turnout of Club members on hand, it was a special occasion.
IT BEGAN with some fine dining. The classy cuisine featured some delectable potluck offerings, including an array of Korean, Chinese, and other tasty ethnic dishes. After feasting to the full, everyone moved to the game room for a series of lively activities. Among these were a spin-the-wheel-of-fortune for prizes, an exchange of gifts, and the challenge of guessing the amount of money in a five-gallon container of coins. In that brain-straining contest, Emily must have consulted the stars, the sign of the month, and maybe ESP in order to come up with the winning estimate (which ran well into the hundreds) and thus walk off with a special present. Also, Rodney, that pool-table maestro, organized a mini-tournament, which saw some fancy stroking by Gary, Laura, and Linda and Thom Darke.
Later, when Richard asked those racket swingers to become musical swingers by joining him as he played his saxophone, they discovered that they had a previously unsuspected talent. Whatever jazz riff he would come up with, they would enthusiastically echo with grooved-in voices in a wave of sound, thereby revealing their true, secret selves—scat singers. (This happening was reminiscent of a recurring conversation on an old-time radio show. One person would say, “Well, you learn something new every day,” and his partner would reply, “You do if you go to the right place to learn it.”)
THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE EVENING was entertainment by professional pianist Jogi Angelina, who was backed by rhythmic embellishments from drummer Michael. Jogi artistically explored rich harmonies in smoothly moving through an extensive program of show tunes, pop songs, and Christmas carols for a sing-along. She also provided some poignant moments as she told of the wonderful work done by the support group “Healing Odyssey” and recalled how important it had been in her own life. She explained that because of her experiences she would like the Club’s stipend for her performance to be donated to that organization.
So, MANY THANKS go to Abel, who, along with Liz, Rosemarie, and Kenroy, put together such an enjoyable evening and Club activity.
To sum it all up
With a little rhyme,
It simply was
A very good time. |
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| Abel and Joe |
A tournament at Lakewood |
Emily at OC Team Tennis |
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Third Tuesday of the month, 7 pm,
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Laurie, Emily, Laura, and Bernie enjoying the hike at Crystal Cove. Click to see the full story. |
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