MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!!!

Angie Bea and I went and toured the Roosevelt State Park at Morton today. Houston, it is a go!!! Mark your calendars for OCTOBER 29, 2005 (the only Saturday available in October.) We reserved and paid the rental fee for the "commons" room at Alfreda Lodge. Roosevelt State Park is located at Exit 77 off Interstate 20 in Morton (Scott County).All these details will be posted again later, but bear the following in mind: 1. NO ALCOHOL - it is a State Park and this is a FAMILY event. 2. Each car must pay $2 for the first 4 folks in the car and 50 cents for all others on entering the park. 3. The room is ours from 8 am until 5 pm. 4. The game room (upstairs and there is an elevator) will be open from 8 am until 5 pm. 5. Fishing boats may be rented for $9.85 per day. 6. Fishing is $3.00 per person, $2.00 for 65 years of age or older or disabled - MUST HAVE FISHING LICENSE. 7. If you will be traveling a distance and want to be there for a night or so, call 601-732-6316 - they have 15 family cabins, 20 motel units, 8 camp units with bunk beds, 109 recreactional vehicle sites and primitive camping. CALL NOW!!! AVAILABILITY IS NOT GUARENTEED AND THE QUICKER YOU RESERVE, THE BETTER YOUR CHOICE! We can bring grills, if you want to, but there are no grills on site at the Commons room. Grills may NOT be placed on the concrete patio. (My paperwork says that one cannot prepare food on the premises, but the lady in the office says as long as the grills are not placed on the concrete, we can.) We nixed the catering due to the cost (from $7.50 per person upwards to at least $14.00 per person...no difference in price of bigs or little folks.) Here are the tentative plans..... Now, I DO NOT DO Halloween for personnel reasons (if you wanna know, I will tell you while we sit under the shade of an oak tree getting drunk on Crystal lite lemonade....), BUT I know that probably everybody else does (and my youngest kid is 13). So we decided, we would have a costume party for the kids (adults can dress up too if they want....even tho some of us are pretty scarey with no help!) with divisions and prizes by age groups - prolly 0 - 5 years, 6 - 10 years, 11- 15 years, and 16 - 21 years. We plan on have a goodie bag (you can call it a trick or treat bag, if'n you want to, but I won't!!!) for each "child" under 21 - in case they are missing their trick or treat time. I was also thinking maybe we would do a carnival type thing with bobbing for apples, fishing pond, and fun stuff like that that is Halloweeny, but could pass as Fall Festival (yeah, I know, it's the same thing, but I have to justify it to myself somehow!). Any thoughts, comments, help, suggestions, etc are gladly accepted. Don't hold back....lemme hear what you think! I am gonna start now collecting little prizes and stuff for the kiddos.....I am thinking NO DOOR prizes because I will spend a bundle just for the stuff I have in mind!!!!!! (Don't tell Jim!!) I need feedback!!!! Smoochies Arlies For more info on the park go here: http://mdwfp.com/PARKVIEW/PARKS.ASP?ID=4848

Sounds like a great plan to me Arnold !!! Tammy

Ok I will talk to my husband about this but I cannot say for sure cause the 28th is my daughters 6th birthday , my mothers birthday and my kids god-fathers birthday... yeah I know too many people with the same birthday. So I will see. Cross your fingers. *~* Iris *~*

Wow Queen & Lady Bea!! Y'all are out and about! I am already getting excited about the next meeting. It sounds like so much fun. It's too early in the am to think of any idea for ya, hehehehe. But when I come up with something, I will pass it along to you. Arlies I gottsta get me the ingred to fix those wraps.. yummy yummy yummy. Glad that the shells are low carb, hehehehe Love ya, Jo

Sounds great to me. I plan to make it unless something really big keeps me from it. So count me in. Melissa

That sounds great. I can hardly wait. Thanks for the time to plan for us. Smiles, Jan

YAY YAY YAY he said we can go but... he says he doesn't wanna pay the $75 for the cabin (I think its cool) but anyways. I was thinking if someone wanted to share a 12cap cabin we could split that $86. We have 2 adults and 4 children (ages 7, 6, 4, and 1year) So if you have 6 or less maybe we could share. But we will probably only stay there the night of the bash. So if anyone is intrested email me and let me know. *~* Iris *~*

I checked the map and it is about 2 hours from me. Is everyone planning on staying the night? If so, I will too cause I cant stand to think of me missing something... but if not.. I aint gonna be down there by myself. I think it sounds like a wonderful idea.

I will talk it over with my DH but we will probably stay the night, it will be a much longer drive for us. Besides, it will be SOOO much fun!! I will let you know. We may try to stay both nights, Friday and Saturday, its a good weekend get away. And you will all get to meet my gorgeous son! I am a proud mama!! I can't wait! I hope we are still planning a Six Flags trip too.. Rhonda

That sounds like a plan! I would like to stay the night. It will just be me and my daughter though. Hubby works every weekend. No ifs ands or buts. But I can have fun without him. I hope we do still go to Six Flags. I would love to do that soon!