Sunday, September 21, 2008

Letterboxing Luncheon at LaMadeliene's

Blue Butterfly and I were signed up for the Luncheon at LaMadeliene's Event, which was originally scheduled for September 13. However, due to inclimate weather in our parts of the state, we were unable to attend. LUCKILY, the organizers decided to have the same event again THIS weekend, and we were able to attend.

BB made it to my house on Friday evening, and we headed out on Saturday morning towards Grapevine. We got there a little early and found the restaurant, and decided to go find a few nearby boxes before lunch started. We headed out to the Botanical Gardens, which were lovely, and found BOTANICAL GARDEN GRAPEVINE SERIES. There are two boxes in this series. By the time we finished up enjoying the gardens and the boxes, it was time for us to go to lunch.

We arrived back at LaMadeliene's and were greeted by Batty Girl. As BG was talking with us, the PrairieDiamonds introduced themselves. Batty Girl showed us to the tables she had saved, where we discovered that Gryzzled Gryphon had already arrived, and the usual letterboxer's frenzy began. Other attendees who arrived included: Oliver and Company, Janet and Cassie of Blooming Flowers, Soggy Cereal, and Mother's Love.

There were three Event Stamps for the occasion. Oliver and Company carved a lovely event stamp called GRAPEVINE LUNCHEON. Batty Girl brought along GRAPES AT LUNCH, which is a very clever stamp that only Batty Girl would think of carving! The last Event Stamp was by Soggy Cereal and is called LB QUICHE WITH IKE ON THE SIDE.

After spending a couple of hours at LaMadeliene's, Mother's Love decided to join Blue Butterfly and I as we found a few more boxes in Grapevine. We spent until almost 7:00 hopping around Grapevine finding stamps by various boxers. We had a good time together. At the end of the day, we ended up back at LaMadeliene's, ate dinner, then headed home.

Stamps I earned this day:
Botanical Garden (Grapevine) Series: Box 1-Butterflies & Bugs/Box 2-Resident on the Rocks
The PrairieDiamonds-Exchange
Grapes at Lunch-Event Stamp
Grapevine Luncheon-Event Stamp
Two Dirty Martinis-Oliver & Co.'s PT
Oliver & Co. -Exchange
Soggy Cereal-new signature stamp
Cassie of Blooming Flowers-Exchange
Flowers-Blooming Flowers PT
Let's Talk around The World-Mother's Love PT
LB Quiche with Ike on the Side-Event Stamp
Artist Series Two-Chagall's Bonjour Paris/Picasso's Petite Fleur/Dali's The Persistance of Time/Munch's The Scream
Flying Low HH
Recover Whale
Beep Beep: Roadrunner
Moose-chief
By Any Other Name
Hop On Over
In the Air
Putt-Putt

1 comment:

Laura said...

Sounds fun. We would have loved to have joined you. We're still on our Ike-generated mini-vacation, but hope to get home this week.

Hope you and BB are doing well!

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