[KathieI]

Originally Posted by graciegirl

Well there is NO reason that people can't gather people wherever they want. A couple of years ago I had luncheons at my house a couple of times and had around 35 people. Kathie would organize meet and greets if someone was in town and it wasn't the day for Crispers. We would have a meet and greet on the squares and meet under the ...what did we meet under? Anyway..we had a fun Freeze one night where we just froze on the dance floor, all of us from TOTV. We have had a halloween get together and a fireworks get together in public places in our golf cart. All you have to do is invite. Folks will come.

We missed you yesterday Villages Pl. It was a wonderful warm and friendly group and you missed a good time.

Absolutely Gracie, you're right on!!

No one tells you that you HAVE to come to the Crispers meeting, it was a way for all of us to meet and greet at one time a month and people who were coming in for the first time, could try to schedule their trip around that meeting.

IF,,, someone couldn't and really wanted to meet us, I (or others - like Gracie said) would organize an informal Meet and Greet and put it on the forum and those who wanted to come, would. We had meets at LSL under the clock, at Veranda (no longer there), at someone's house.

Although I know for myself, I very much enjoyed organizing these things, but it does take a lot of time. Making sure reservations are made, keeping track of who's coming, organizing the time and place... it takes a lot of effort.

VP, if you would like to take any of the suggestions made and organize a new venue, please be our guest. Everyone would be very happy to support your efforts. I usually get very few declines. As a matter of fact, I never get any unless people are out of town.

To answer why only 24 people attended, people post on this forum who are all over the country, maybe even the world. Not everyone is here in The Villages at that time. I think 24 is a great attendance and I think the most we had at one time was 50.

So, please, don't be shy, take one of the suggestions and run with it!! But I do hope to see you at one of the Crispers events in the near future.