Originally posted by Skydiver
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the cocktail party is 'smart attire'. no jeans, no sweats, no shorts, no tennies/trainers.
Business casual/professional at the minimum. and you can get as fancy as you want. some wear their evening attire, suits, gowns, etc.
Making up the times here, you'll gt into the room at 645ish. you'll have a drink ticket for 1 cocktail/alcoholic beverage or two soft drinks. there will also be water at the table. You will have assigned seating. At each place is a charm specially made just for you. There will also be a centerpiece of some sort, also hand made.
Horsdourves will be served, which are often just as good as a meal (might even be a meal)
You'll have time to eat, likely 45 minutes to an hour or so. Then amanda will come in. She'll make a few comments, she'll circulate through the room, spending about 10 minutes at each table (or more as Julia struggles not to break out her silk cattle prod
)
You'll get a group shot of amanda with all of you. then she'll move on.
Once she's visited at each table, she'll leave and you can leave or stay, most leave (and they do only have the room for so long)
As long as she's in the room, people are asked to not wander around....meaning if you're at table 4 and she's at table 5, don't go lurking around and adding to the chaos and being a distraction.
Also, if she's at your table, you are asked to NOT take photos. She's got abouot 10 minutes to chat with you guys, and that's what she wants to do, chat. It's not fair for one person to 'hog' the time getting photos or blinding everyone with flash bulbs.
and that is the cocktail party, in a nutshell.
Disclaimer: this is based on experience from the past, this one might be like this, might be less like, might be different...but will likely follow the same basic outline
Business casual/professional at the minimum. and you can get as fancy as you want. some wear their evening attire, suits, gowns, etc.
Making up the times here, you'll gt into the room at 645ish. you'll have a drink ticket for 1 cocktail/alcoholic beverage or two soft drinks. there will also be water at the table. You will have assigned seating. At each place is a charm specially made just for you. There will also be a centerpiece of some sort, also hand made.
Horsdourves will be served, which are often just as good as a meal (might even be a meal)
You'll have time to eat, likely 45 minutes to an hour or so. Then amanda will come in. She'll make a few comments, she'll circulate through the room, spending about 10 minutes at each table (or more as Julia struggles not to break out her silk cattle prod
)You'll get a group shot of amanda with all of you. then she'll move on.
Once she's visited at each table, she'll leave and you can leave or stay, most leave (and they do only have the room for so long)
As long as she's in the room, people are asked to not wander around....meaning if you're at table 4 and she's at table 5, don't go lurking around and adding to the chaos and being a distraction.
Also, if she's at your table, you are asked to NOT take photos. She's got abouot 10 minutes to chat with you guys, and that's what she wants to do, chat. It's not fair for one person to 'hog' the time getting photos or blinding everyone with flash bulbs.
and that is the cocktail party, in a nutshell.
Disclaimer: this is based on experience from the past, this one might be like this, might be less like, might be different...but will likely follow the same basic outline
((((((((((Julia)))))))))))Yep, the charms are wonderful and are always a conversation-starter at the table. :::hugs Becky:::
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AT5 attendees
SamJackShipLover (Annelies) + Flow + possibly Nubbin- Holland
Celandine/Brenda - USA
LeeFraser - Alison - UK
2Shy/Sanna - Sweden (But really �land)
EH-T- land of moose and beaver
Scythe - Jen - UK
antoa - land of unemployment (for now)
Hannah (Tittamiire) - UK and my own planet
Julia (samcarterrules) - Scotland
Donna (Julia's carer) - Scotland
Doris (Julia's carer) - Scotland
PengYn - land of shiny hair and hug-me eyes
Andrea (Andy) - Germany
Laurie (llp) - Pacific North West
ames / bluejelloqueen - Crazy Canuck (like there's really any other kind, eh? LOL)
Chloe aka Prelsey_carter (Australia, but will be in Vancouver at that time)
elephantgirl - weird Belgian that used to call Chicago home
Donamac/Dona - another Pacific Northwester (love that rainy weather)
Claire (clairec007) - Scotland
Fresh Horse - Eureka!
Wendy - m_wendy_r -- UK!
Tesla_Twin / Cynthia - Switzerland (country of chocolates and mountains and lake!)
ShimmeringStar - US
Nat - halfbloodme - + Kazzie + Kerry - UK
Isabelle (Oris) - France (AT.... ♥)
CJM - New Zealand
Suse (suse2301 or suse_germany) - Germany
Franny - Ireland / Germany
Susanne - Germany
Neep/Eileen - New Zealand
XFchemist (Silvia) - Italy
Devilish Me (Irena) - Serbia
Jumble - UK
Josiane - UK
Sarai - UK
Cags - UK
MoB- Brooklyn
lame moose (mocha)-chicagoland-land of chicago bears, but no moose
trindajae - oregon
Len - Canada
penjab (Jill)
AT5 cocktail party attendees
Celandine / Brenda
Neep / Eileen
MoB / Jennifer
SamJackShipLover / Annelies (still undecided)
lame moose (mocha)
ShimmeringStar
Dinner @ Anderson's, Surrey
Wednesday 9th February
Sarai
Jumble
Josi
Cags
Wendy
MoB
Laurie (LLP)
Jack the Ripper Walk - Wednesday 9th February
http://www.jacktheripperwalk.com/index2.html
Cel/Brenda
Neep/Eileen
Musical! Thursday 10th February
NZNeep/Eileen
Cel/Brenda
MidwifeOnBoard/Jennifer
Flow
Susanne
Len
Ames
EH-T
Franzi
Dinner! Thursday 10th February - location to be decided then
penjab (Jill)
SamJackShipLover (Annelies) possibly
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Sneaking in to add my name to the cocktail party list.
Hopefully will get the payment arrangements squared away in the next few days. Interestingly the exchange rate seems to be very good right now between US dollars and pounds sterling. (1 pound to 1.56 dollars. Not too bad compared to past years.)Now I just need to start that anti-blizzard dance in earnest (and start checking out flights). There may be 3 airports in the area, but it doesn't take much snow to shut them and last February we had 2 big blizzards. (Here's to hoping for a *MILD* end of winter here!!!)
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I'll probably travel alone and then it's just far too unpractical to bring her along. And even if my husband comes along, we could bring her, but as much as I would like everyone to meet her, she has nothing to gain from the trip. Maybe we will reconsider later as she gets a little older, but for now, she will stay home (and I will miss her like crazy! and leave as late as possible (friday and not thursday) lol).
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