— In broward_harrypotter_gathering@yahoogroups.com, “roulston112131″  wrote:

OCTOBER:  Instead of a regular meeting, we will repeat last year’s successful scrum by going in costume to Gatsby’s (southwest corner of University Drive and I-595) at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 31 October 2009.  We had a private room and our own bartender, then the barmaids came in and mingled with us.  Feasted all evening.  It would be really nice if each of you would tell Bridget if you will be there; we need a head count.

NOVEMBER:  Just the regular meeting at 8 p.m. on Monday, 16 November 2009 at Starbucks on Broward Blvd.  Important that we all attend so we can each draw a secret elf name for gift-giving in December.  Cost of gift should not exceed $20.

DECEMBER:  At 3 p.m. on Saturday, 26 December 2009, we’ll start gathering at Ruth’s house to feast on pot-luck and exchange gifts and catch up on latest news from the Wizarding World and the Twilight zone, and watch something on Ruth’s new 46″ LED television set  Remember to pull your car straight in toward the house, and try to not knock over the spindly new tree on the front lawn.

The SEPTEMBER meeting was interesting.  All four of us sat inside Starbucks and studied the list of people who weren’t there.  Since you don’t communicate on any of the three (3) websites that are set up (Danny’s, Kat’s and Dale’s), what are we to assume?  Ruth, Dale, Roberta, and Katrenna had a rousing discussion of which books we were reading, and what our plans were for the opening of Universal’s Wizarding World in spring of 2010.  Nebulous.

Stell and Ruth have registered for the Infinitus 2010 convention in July at Orlando and will be happy to share our hotel room with whomever.  Since the convention will be held inside the Royal Pacific Hotel, it might work out best to browse the park either the day before or the day after the convention because the symposium is a jam-packed learning experience for true Harry Potter fans, very structured and professional but loads of fun.

THIS NOTICE WILL BE POSTED on all three websites so that no one will be overlooked.    Cheers,  Ruth.

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Well folks, We will be collecting pictures from the event that we had yesterday and will be adding them to our gallery. We would like to thank the owner of the Sunrise Cinema for helping us make the event something spectacular. All the news crews that were there were really friendly and everyone had fun which is the main goal. If you have pictures or video of the event please do share with us.

Thanks also go out to Estelle and Bridgett for taking care of all the arrangements from the movies to the dinner that we had at Quarterdeck afterwards. Very good job and hopefully we will have more of these types of events to enjoy ourselves with.

Please note (will be added to the calendar), we will be meeting up again on August 17th at our Starbucks location. Please arrive around 7:00pm.

Again thank you all for making this a very special night and we hope you all come again.

Domasi

next one is at whole foods. University and Peters Rd.. on 5/18/09  …. we never tried whold foods before.. should be interesting… See ya there.  Stell

I had a very nice time at Dales party… Her nice hubby made bar b qued  hot dogs, hamburgers and chicken… and home made chili….wine from Ruth and deviled eggs from Roberta, home made pumkin pie from a new young woman and chips&dip from me… watched a cute movie… all in all we had a very nice time… We did not hold a meeting as there were too many of us missing…I will follow up on yahoo ….  Happy Birthday Dale aka  Angel Strange

Thanks to Ruth’s generosity (lending us her home) I had a great time last night.  And by the way the gift I received had 3 batteries (I had not noticed)  I installed the batteries and when I slid the little handle – the stairway to dumbledore’s office twirled around and Prof. McGonagles voice said, “Prof. Dumbledore will be waiting for you!,  Sherbert Lemon”   that is so cool….  And thanks Danny for the DVD I will be watching it today.   Everyone came in with some good eats and drinks, Tiffany and Bridgette outdid themselves with their edible creations…  YUMOOOO … All in all I had a great time…Love you guys…(had a buggy ride home hahaha)

Got home and saw all the cute people in their Togas and my one son had on my leopard sheet – they named him Barney Rubble…the house and patio were packed with bodies..lol..… I had a few more drinks – some with strange names…and nibbled more food…music was really loud,  so, I closed myself in my bedroom, put on PJ’s’ and watched a marathon of NCIS            …(forgive all my misspelling)

 

See ya all at Dales next month.  

 

Hugs,  S