Red Hat Luncheon

Fourteen of the ladies from the Conservatory, appropriately decked out in purple and red loaded the bus for our monthly luncheon.

 

Our destination was the Tokyo Steakhouse which has always been a favorite of mine.  We filled two table looking at each other.

Cat from marketing and Brad our general manager joined us for lunch.  Brad came because he is leaving for a better job and he is taking every opportunity to visit with us before he leaves.

 

Erin our social director also joined us.

  

As always we got a show with our meal.

Cat ordered a sushi plate in addition to her meal.

The food was great and I think everyone took home leftovers. 

Valentine’s Day

The dining room was decorated for Valentine’s Day.  There were four seating's today with our meals delivered to our tables.

Each table had a beautiful fresh flower arrangement with the addition of pink and read napkins.  We also had a watermelon, lemon zest “cocktail” to whet our appetites.

 

Wayne had given me a dozed red roses so I thought it only appropriate that he wear one as a boutonniere.

  

Our table mates were Margaret and Lee.

 

We both had the French onion soup then I had the filet and Wayne had the lobster.  Both were excellent.  I had strawberry shortcake for dessert and Wayne had the red velvet cake.  We left very full and happy.

Happy Hour at Jack Allen’s

Tuesday was the traditional Mardi Gras but the second Tuesday is always Happy Hour out at some restaurant.  We loaded up the bus and headed to Round Rock to Jack Allen’s.

Marketing always invites some people from the community to these so they provide the appetizers.  There were lots of appetizers and quite a variety.

Here are Erin our social director, one of the invited guests, and Cat from marketing.

Each table had several appetizers.  The woman on the left is Judy.  She and I have been shopping together.

There were two more booths in addition to two tables full of people.

Lyn, Gert and Frank are talking with one of our invited guests.

That’s Maggie in the middle.  As you can tell I don’t know everyone’s name yet.

Phyllis and Bill are two of the originators of the Happy Hour Out bunch.  Thank you Phyllis and Bill.

The appetizer were good, the drinks were good, the service was great, and the company was wonderful.  Looking forward to the next one.

Mardi Gras at the Conservatory

Since there are other plans for next Tuesday, we celebrated Mardi Gras early here at the Conservator.  We have to walk through the dining room to get from our building to the main building where Happy Hour is held.  Thew were setting up for supper.

The tables were decorated.

 

Even the waiters were getting into the mood.

Upstairs the Bistro was decorated a lot more.

   

Here I am getting my wine (and a taste of JP’s hurricanes) at the bar.  That’s Kelly, JP our executive chef, and Crystal behind the bar.

The appetizers that night were fried alligator on a stick and fried crawfish with a tomatillo sauce.  Yum.

There was quite a line for the food.  Even Cindy from marketing came up for the celebration.

Kay had on a beautiful mask.

Erin our new social director (in the white sweater) also joined us.

 

S0 did Brad our director.

Here is Wayne enjoying the food.

Erin is talking to Joyce by the table that I typically sit with.  That’s the back of my head.

Here are Maggie, Joyce, Mattie Bell and Gert.

The party spilled out into the Hall with Ed, et al.

 

We even have a group that parties in the Library.  Joan and Al wore their beads.  Charlie is talking to Bill and I can’t remember the other’s names.

A good time was had by all.  Later that evening a group of us took our bus and went down to First Baptist Church to see the Trinity Players perform in Almost Main.  A really enjoyable day.