HARS Picnic
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atherleisureSaturday, 11 April was the first outing of the newly-formed Houston Area Regency Society. We met at Fernland Park in Montgomery for a picnic and a visit to some nearby antique stores. It took me quite a while to find the place - my GPS denied the existence of the address, and Google Maps thought it was a block away from its actual location. Nevertheless, I eventually arrived to find that the other attendees had made my food contributions superfluous. I brought a little more than enough to feed myself; they brought enough to supply a small army. In their defense, there were more people expected than actually arrived, possibly due to the very threatening weather forecast. We wound up with three ladies and two gentlemen, as even an event as I've ever been to.
We ate our fill with loads left over then took some photographs and bowled.
After that it was a walk around the lake (more of a pond, really) where Kaycee and Travis took a lot more pictures. Then we looked about the buildings, several of which were locked, and had a chat with the docent on duty. We must have spent a great deal longer walking than I had realized because I got the worst sunburn I've had in I don't know how long - at least twelve years. Good company has a way of making the time fly by.
From the park we retired to a nearby wine bar, which was nice but was the scene of the greatest drama of the afternoon, involving spilt red wine and broken glass.
When I left the others were discussing visiting antique shops down the street, but I opted out so that I could go home and wash out my dress. Fortunately, a good soak and two washes, and my dress was as good as new, though sorely in need of ironing.
Kaycee has kindly shared her pictures, and I think they're just lovely. And I've finally got pictures of my new white dress, but I'll post about it separately.
There is another event in the planning at a teashop in Spring on May 23. I'm looking forward to it. Information about the society can be found on Facebook, Google+, and My Regency Life.
We ate our fill with loads left over then took some photographs and bowled.
After that it was a walk around the lake (more of a pond, really) where Kaycee and Travis took a lot more pictures. Then we looked about the buildings, several of which were locked, and had a chat with the docent on duty. We must have spent a great deal longer walking than I had realized because I got the worst sunburn I've had in I don't know how long - at least twelve years. Good company has a way of making the time fly by.
From the park we retired to a nearby wine bar, which was nice but was the scene of the greatest drama of the afternoon, involving spilt red wine and broken glass.
When I left the others were discussing visiting antique shops down the street, but I opted out so that I could go home and wash out my dress. Fortunately, a good soak and two washes, and my dress was as good as new, though sorely in need of ironing.
Kaycee has kindly shared her pictures, and I think they're just lovely. And I've finally got pictures of my new white dress, but I'll post about it separately.
There is another event in the planning at a teashop in Spring on May 23. I'm looking forward to it. Information about the society can be found on Facebook, Google+, and My Regency Life.
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Date: 2015-04-27 02:35 am (UTC)And whew! So glad you got all that out of your dress!
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Date: 2015-04-27 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-04-27 03:52 am (UTC)I almost burst into tears seeing you dress! So glad it was saved!
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Date: 2015-04-27 02:56 pm (UTC)I really wasn't too concerned because I knew I could bleach it if I had to. The person who spilt the wine felt much worse than I did, though had it been the other way around, I'd have felt horrible instead. The most interesting thing is that the different wines made different colored splotches on the white fabric, even though all red wine looks the same to me in glasses. There were two or three wines that hit my dress. It was a mess, but the staff were very nice and brought out everything new and the table was big enough for us to move to the other end away from the mess.