Had a GREAT time with the Ladies today!

I had a great time with our OH ladies today at Perkin's in Raleigh!  It was a great time that went by way too fast!  We planned a wonderful Christmas party for December 15th.  Yall need NOT miss this!  It is going to be great.  Barbara will be posting all the details. Love, Diane

Yall are all great!  I had a blast meeting all of you, finally...   Such a wonderful group of ladies.   See yall soon!

~misslaurap

Diane is right. We had a lovely time. It was so nice to put faces, voices, and avatars together. We had a nice group today ... Paula (ShoutJoy), Laura (MissLauraP), Lisa (LisaW), Jennifer (Cagair), Wendy (AuntDeeDee, Annie (AnnieP), and CANDICE (Candee518).

Paula ... at 7 years out ... you give me hope!

Laura ... so nice to finally meet you! You are hoot. I really look forward to getting to know you better. Thanks so very much for arranging for the conference room. Hopefully we'll be putting to good use often.

Lisa ... OMG!!! You look FABULOUS!! The changes are absolutely incredible!

Jennifer ... So nice to meet you. I can tell that we are going to really hit it off. I love find a new friend that I never knew I had. I'm looking forward to getting to know you better too.

Wendy ... Thanks so much for bringing your fabulous cookbooks and the peanut butter. Love those funky glasses! Next time, we'll need to spend more time getting to know one-another.

Annie ... Tell Lee he's lost the bomber jacket for this winter. He can have it back next year when it will be waaayyyyyy too big for you. I love that new hair cut!

Diane ... Speaking of haircuts ... everytime I see you, you have a new very "fashionable" hairdo. I'm looking forward to a new avatar with that new do ... Seems like you're do for a new avatar ... that old one is at least a size or two old.

Candice ... Ohhh Honey!!!! I was so glad to see you sweetie. Thank you for that hug! Sarah and I want all the Michael details. I'm sooo looking forward to seeing you at lunch this week. Be sure to "care for" and "take care of" you. You deserve all the good things this world has to offer ... including your good health and a good man.

We shared the fancy creamers that Diane brought, the peanut butters Wendy brought, cookbooks that Wendy and I brought and photos.

We chattered like magpies for a couple of hours and really had a very nice time. As Diane said, we've decided to get together December 15th for a party of sorts. We're going to exchange small gifts and have a pot-luck. Laura has arranged to have a conference room at her office available, so we can enjoy each other's company at leisure. (The office is very easy to get to ... I'll be posting all of the relavant info soon.)

It was so nice to meet a couple of newbies, see the changes in everyone since the last get together and meet some that we've only known through avatars. For the December get together, I'm wondering if we might be able to rally some of the folks from Greensboro, Jacksonville, Fayetteville, Wilmington, etc... It sure would be great to get to see some of you.

Sorry for the ramble ...

Love to all.

Barb

 

Great post, Barb!  Thanks!  Almost felt like I was there with all of you!

Hey Suzanne -

I thought of you and all of our other OH buddies while we were deciding to get together for some holiday cheer.

I'm hoping that we'll get together sometime in the not too distant future.

Barb

I really enjoyed meeting everyone! Thank you!

So happy to get together with old and new OH friends I had a great day other than the Goodberry episode Barb we also found Trader Joes it was great very crowded but I found out they have a new store opening in Chapel Hill on November 30th.                                               Annie

Hey Annie -

It dawned on me that this week-end is probably going to be a pretty busy TJ weekend because of the upcoming holiday. On the other hand, TJs is always kind of busy.

I look forward to the new store in CH. Maybe we can make a run sometime.

It was great to see you again.

Keep up the good work!

Barb

Diane, I am going to try to get this night off so I can come up and meet ya'll...  Is it going to be at Perkins also?  Please keep me posted!   I will watch for Barbara's post also.  

Hey Sheryl -

Actually, it won't be at Perkins. We are going to meet at an office that LauraP has so graciously arranged to make available. We can manage about 40 people in this huge conference room. There is plenty of parking available and it's easy to reach. I'll be posting it on meetup.com with a map, etc.

I'm really looking forward to seeing you and everyone else we might be able to round up ...

Barb