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Meeting Location: Strathmore Court Apartments Community Room
December 10, 2008
Members Present: Mark, Eric, Bob, Mike, Cathy, Nathalie, Natalie, John V., Jill, Stephen, Walter, Coco
Meeting Times - Start: 7.10 pm - End: 9.00 pm
- Topic Discussion
Not staying at home being bored. How to go about creating stuff to do. Coco reminded us that she had assigned us homework. The discussion began by members voicing what they felt could be done to initiate on their own, creative ways and or ideas to create your own social life and not sit at home bored. Mark did his homework and went online and went to meetup.com and typed in “museums-in D.C.” Mark printed out the results. Mark mentioned the different meetup groups in relation to museums and the following were the groups that would possibly interest the Fun Bunch:
THE WASHINGTON MUSEUM MEETUP GROUP
DC SMART SINGLES; DC/MD/VA MUSEUM AND DAY TRIPPERS MEETUP GROUP
CULTURAL ACTIVITY GROUP; LLC FOR SINGLES.
Here is more detailed information for each of the groups:
WELCOME, D.C. SMART SINGLES- Has 222 members, was founded in November 23rd, 2008. This group does hiking, art, and goes to museums.
WASHINGTON MUSEUM GROUP- Has 1,473 members and goes to museums and art galleries; has had 55 meetups so far and was founded April 10th, 2006.
After a discussion, Mark wanted to know what types of groups members of Fun Bunch would be interested in. Here are the results:
scrapbooking: 3 members
movies: 8 members
museums: 4 members
volleyball: 4 members
hiking: 7 members (maybe 8 members)
The prevalent topics were hiking and movies. Mark will print up results for these two topics. If anybody else would like to print up results for any of the other topics, then be my guest.
- December 2008 Holiday Party
Who would be attending, who would be bringing what item to the party, and at what time they would be arriving to the party. The following is the list:
Natalie- Either Potato Salad or Pasta Salad
Nina- Ham and rolls
Nathalie- A veggie tray & desserts
Mark- Turkey Chili and soda
Jill- Turkey
John Vere- Ham
Cathy, Mike, and Bob- German Chocolate cake
Daria- Cheesecake; cheese and crackers tray
Stephen Hosmer- Sodas; salad and salad dressing
Bobby- Cashews, and mixed nuts assortment
Walter- Soda
- Set-Up Crew
We discussed what members would agree to help set-up for the party. The following members agreed to set-up: Lorin, Nina, Daria, Jill, and John.
- Clean-Up Crew
We also discussed what members would agree to help clean up after the party. The following members agreed to help clean up: Jill, John, Nina, Daria, Lorin.
- National Tree/Menorah
At the meeting, we agreed to go see the National Tree/Menorah at the ellipse in Washington, D.C. on December 27th. However, Mark was so busy, that he did not send out an e-mail until it was too late. There was another attempt to go see the National Tree on Friday January 2nd, 2009 but including Mark, two members became sick and the other members one-by-one declined to go. Perhaps in December 2009 we can go see the National Tree/Menorah.
- Happy Birthday to Stephen H
Today, December 10th, is his birthday!!! Since it is his birthday tonight, we will be celebrating his birthday with a cake during our break!!! ALL OTHER December 2008, January 2009, February 2009, and March 2009 birthdays we will celebrate sometime in February 2009.
December 2008; January 2009; February 2009; March 2009 Birthday Celebration- We will plan on celebrating in February. We celebrated Stephen’s birthday, but if you were not present at tonight’s meeting, you may bring a card for Stephen at the celebration in February. From my memory, we will celebrate Tom’s, Eric’s, Mike’s, and John W’s birthdays in February.
- BREAK
During the break we sang Happy Birthday to Stephen and ate cake, and we also did the Secret Santa gift exchange.
- Next Meeting
Next Meeting- Will take place on January 21st at 7:00 p.m. at the Strathmore Court Aparment Community Room.
- HAPPY HOLIDAYS & HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!
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