Attention Everyone Who Reads This Thread!~~

The Shrinkin' Violets are planning a meet and we cordially invite you to attend!

When: Fri., May 16 - Mon., May 19

Where: Deep Creek Lake, in Western Maryland

Who: Anyone who'd like to come!!

What: Talking, drinking, spa treatments, talking, photo ops, not much sleeping, bonding, drinking, talking, fun, surprises... and more!

RSVP: ASAP to mdrai

For those who will be flying in to the Washington, DC, area... you have 3 choices for airports: BWI (outside Baltimore), Dulles (in Virginia), and Reagan National (in DC). I've listed these in order from best to worst... so try to get into BWI! You'll want your flight to ARRIVE on FRI, MAY 16, in the MORNING (by 11am - Noon)! You'll want your flight to DEPART on MON., MAY 19, in the EVENING (after 6pm). Why? Because it's about 1 hour from the airport to my house (our staging area)... then approx. 3 hours to the Lake. Please try to coordinate flights, so efficient pick-up, drop off can be organized!

If anyone wants to fly in on Thurs., May 15 or out Tues., May 20, I'll be happy to pick you up @ the airport AND you may stay here at my home.

Questions? PM me or post them here.

Again -- EVERYONE IS INVITED! The more the merrier!

For this second round of "rsvp'ing", so far I have (in no particular order & sorry if I've missed someone!!)...

1. me

2. Jennifur

3. Terridoodle

4. Judy

5. Kat

6. Pam

7. TracyK

8. Laura

Laura-do not sweat the small stuff. Everything will work out one way or another. Just another little road block that we can go around!! Don't let anything or anyone get you down sweetie! Its all good!

Michelle---if Laura's Dad cannot make plans ahead, is the cabin still an option? It would allow us to include Jenn again....and fall in with Judy's original plan.....

One way or another we will figure this out.

I'd be up for Palm Springs!

Or y'all could head to the 4 corners!!!

Kat

Texas is in the smack dab middle of the country!! LOL

I love Palm Springs and I love the 4 corners!!!

How 'bout Colorado??

OY!!!!!

Ok.. so what the heck is going on??? someone pm me

Looks like for the time being, we are back up and running---WTG Alex!!!

Kat

If you want a REAL taste of Texas, here's my idea....just to throw it out there:

One of my favorite spots in Texas is the little historic town of Gruene. The Guadalupe River (our favorite toobin' river) runs right thru it and there's lots of outfitters ready to rent you a toob and an ice chest to float down the river. By far one of my favorite pass-times....takes about a half-day. The weather will definitely be warm enough to do this....and it's a BLAST.

There's oodles of cute shops in the restored little town where you can easily spend a whole day just moseying around. That weekend is also the Gruene Market Days....where Texas artisans gather to show off and sell their handicrafts.

Gruene is also home to the the "Oldest Dance Hall in Texas" and i guarantee you that every country singer worth his salt has played there at one time or another. Willie and Jerry Jeff have played there tons. It's all open air with lots of cold beer, cute cowboys in tight jeans, and fun as hell.

This offeres a good overview of the town: Historic Gruene Texas

This is one of the very cool, very Texas-like guest houses: http://www.gruenehomesteadinn.com/farmhouse.htm A group of 10 could get this for about $200/3 nights.

You fly into either Austin or San Antonio and drive about an hour. Very easy to get to. We could even do one night (Sunday?) in San Antonio to get a taste of that special place, too.

San Antonio's River Walk--Remember the Alamo is totally awesome!!!

We still have to figure out a way to transport Jennifer!!!

If it involved a cute Texan in "Wrangler Butts drive me nuts" tight jeans---it would be even better!

We go to one of the Art Fairs in the little town near where our place in TX is--I love them!

If gambling is still on some minds, there is always off season Atlantic City......cheap!

Kat

Always wanted to go to Texas. Am I tooo left for Texas? Gay, liberal Demo???

Hah hah, when I did the foreign exchange program to Australia/New Zealand.. it was 20 kids from Alabama, 20 kids from Texas. And boy, did we both represent. Our group was all rednecks, and the Texas group was all cowboys!! They had the big belt buckles, tight jeans.. it cracked me up. And I have a magnet on my fridge one of them gave me "Don't Mess with Texas!", that's the state motto isn't it?

Scratch the Gay, and you describe me....and I pay taxes there, so I hope not!!

LOL

Kat

Yep we laugh at the buckles....in fact the bimbos running around the rodeos----we always called them Buckle Bunnies!!

But I personally believe it is a tombstone for a dead _ _ _ _ !!!!

Kat

roflmfao!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! buckle bunnies! OMG!!!!!!!! so funny...

Texas would be fine with me... (this is me still hoping I can figure it out)

Pamela - if the state were nothing but natives, you might be in trouble....but we have lots of 'foreigners' here who brought all their gay, liberal demo crap with 'em!! :cool: They outnumber the rednecks by a WIDE margin now!

And I have a magnet on my fridge one of them gave me "Don't Mess with Texas!", that's the state motto isn't it?

It's actually a anti-litter campaign motto...but has come to represent our whole attitude in a nutshell.

If you have never been to Texas it is an experience all of its own! They are PROUD to be Texans!!! They have the state flag on everything, roofs to business' are painted like the flag, clothing, those pop up shades....you name it! But you also see almost as many confederate flags----especially if you end up passing a cemetary you will see tons of confederate flags!

But as a rule, you would be hard pressed to find people any friendlier overall. And Lady Bird Johnson, saw to it that the state highways are bordered by wild flowers! It is a beautiful place if you catch it before it dries up in the summer!!!

Kat