April’s Happy Hour Out at the Westin

Thursday evening was Happy Hour Out at the Westin Hotel.  We all loaded on the bus.  With his new wide angle lens, Wayne was able to get a picture of everyone on the bus at one time.  The people front to back and left to right are Peggy, Peggy,  Joyce, Maggie, Gert, Lyn, Bobbie, Marynelle, Jane, Sterling, Betsey, Kay, Phyllis, Bill, Frank, Betsy, Annabelle, and Lindley.   Ed and Wayne weren’t in their seats yet.

 

The Westin has a large seating area off the lobby by the bar that was able to accommodate us all.

  

Here is the view from the other end.

  

Here are Joyce, “”, Lindley, Kay, and Betsey.

 

Here are Gert, Bill, Phyllis, Annabelle, and Maggie.

Here is a better picture of Gert with Lyn on her right.

 

Here I am with Betsy and Ed.

On the side near the lobby were Peggy, Sterling, Frank, and Wayne.

 

The waitress had a time taking all of our orders.

Even our new GM showed up.  Here he is talking to me.

 

Keith went around and visited with everyone.

Finally it was time for the appetizers.  There were two kinds of pizza, calamari, and some sort of dip with chips.  The food was replenished by the marketing team whenever we ran out.

Jane was one of the first in line.

She was quickly followed by everyone else.

   

The lights above the registration desk look like giant sea urchins.

Keith even got to sit down next to Bill to enjoy his food.

Here is Cat from our marketing team with one of the guests from outside.

Someone even got a picture of Wayne and me.

We were really enjoying ourselves as you can see from this picture that Bill took of us and shared.

Everyone else enjoyed themselves as well.

Only two more weeks until the next Happy Hour Out. 

Jewelry Class – Watch bands

Before class on Wednesday I laid out some of the beads that I had on the table in our apartment for the ladies to choose from.

Joyce, Annabelle, and Jeanne, came early and started picking out beads.  Trouble didn’t like it that they weren’t paying attention to him.

 

They got started out in the hallway and Bobbie joined us.

I had about a dozen watch faces for them to pick from.

Jeanne and Joyce got right to work.

 

Mary Alice joined the large table while Nancy and Linda joined Bobbie at the small table.

Jeanne, Joyce and Bobbie finished their watch bands early.  Here they are.  We were waiting for the glue to dry on the knots before we cut off the extra stretchy cord.  Nancy finished hers as well while Annabelle and Mary Alice will finish theirs later.  More pictures to follow. 

Everyone said they had fun.  Next time we will learn to do free form wire wrapping.

Ladies Poker

Wayne got a new wide angle lens for his camera and came up to take pictures while the ladies were playing poker.  On my left are Velma, Elizabeth, and Abby.  On my right is Delores.

In this picture you get the back of Delores’s head and to her right is Loretta.

Bobbie usually deals but she was off property today so I dealt.  We play every Monday afternoon and it is a crazy game but we only bet pennies so no one goes too far in debt.

2013 MS 150 Bike Ride

My brother, Murray, his wife Sandy, their daughter, Tracy, and their granddaughter, Grace all came into Austin on Saturday.  They had dinner with us at The Conservatory. 
Sunday morning we met them at the Bullock Texas State History Museum for the finish of the MS 150 Bike Ride from Houston.  Tracy’s husband, Chris, and their sun, Jacob, were both riding in the race along with one of Chris’s sisters and her daughter.
We got there at 11:30am and there were quite a few spectators there already.

This is a view of where the riders come around the corner off MLK Blvd.

This is a view of the finish line with the capitol building in the background.

Since our riders were quite a ways out we went into the museum up to the VIP section to have some lunch.  This is the mosaic that is in the floor of the entrance to the museum.

The VIP area was set up in the cafe and was being catered by a group out of San Antonio.  There were three different kinds of quesadillas with all the trimmings, several pasta salads, dips, etc. and ice cream and gelato.  There was also a bar set up but it was way too early for that.  The food was wonderful.
 
From left to right are Tracy, one of Chris’s brothers, Wayne, Sandy, and Murray waiting for a phone call from Chris to tell us that they were close.

The flowers out in front of the museum are beautiful.

The crowd just kept growing.

This is the official BP MS150 truck.

This is Chris's neice, Mellissa.


 This is Jacob.

  

Here is Chris's sister, Janie.  I missed getting a picture of Chris.
  



Back inside the museum this is a picture of a real Texas Ranger Badge that is imbedded in the mosaic floor.

They have one of the painted cows in the museum.  This one tells the history of Austin.

 
In the cow’s ears are pictures of the Mexican bats that live under the 1st street bridge.

Here are Jacob and Chris.  Jacob is a freshman in HS and is already over 6’ tall.  They didn’t get in until after 1:00.
 
Lastly here are Murray, Sandy, me and Wayne.  We haven’t had a picture together in a long time.
 
It was a fun but long day.