Day Trip - June 17, 2010 - Church Basement Ladies

We had a fun day at La Comedia eating and seeing the new comedy musical, "Church Basement Ladies". This was a hilarious comedy program that I believe everyone enjoyed. If you missed it, you may want to consider taking someone special to see it before it closes.

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One of the highlights of any event at LaComedia is the food! I think everyone enjoyed the meal before the big show!

 








We were pleased to have some special guests with us.  Sherm and Pat Bowers (our former leaders) were with us and Clara brought her grand-daughters.

This is the only set needed for the musical and is the Church Basement where everything happens.  Preparing for a fundraiser and also a wedding are high priorities.

We weren't able to take photos during the performance but the performers lined up after the musical.  Here is the pastor and 3 of the 4 church basement ladies.  They all did a fantastic job and two of the ladies (one not shown) were qualified to be members of our Young at Heart group.

We all enjoyed this Day Trip!

YAH Luncheon - June 8, 2010

We had a full program today with good music and a nice medical presentation that probably worked for me. John Porter talked about diabetes and avoiding it through diet, exercise, etc. I need to work on my BMI.
John is a Physical Therapist with his own practice - Porter Physical Therapy. He also publishes an Internet newsletter that you can request by sending an email to the address that will be published in our July Young at Heart Newsletter.
Today, we also featured Josh Hales with a patriotic music program that he did in the Sunday morning services for Memorial Day. Here is a link to that music, if you wish to hear it again. We took the opportunity to honor our veterans and other service people after Josh's music.

EnterTrainment Junction - May 25, 2010

Our May Day Trip was a fun adventure for anyone! Many thought this would be a guys only thing but I received many great comments from the gals, too. The EnterTrainment Junction is a fun place for old and young kids, whether you like trains or not.

We started with a nice breakfast at iHop over by the old Voice of America property.
There were trains of all vintages, these are old ones. The trestles were built in the same design as the originals.
Yup, this is not a train. The layouts included water (real) and boats.
This old mine brought back memories of the days that I lived in Denver, Colorado and Rapid City, SD.
Everything wasn't just model trains; they also had many nice exhibits of train facts and history.
Our group even got an extra special tour of the "underground"! This is the area under the train layout and where all that water comes from. Yes, there are train tracks and trains running under the main exhibits. They have to go somewhere after they enter a tunnel. The controllers and computers for running much of the set up is also down here!
Our guide did a great job of explaining how everything works.
As our behind the scenes tour ended, we were fortunate to find a volunteer manufacturing and painting a new scenery set-up. Now, we must return to see the new stuff!
I heard many of our group telling others they would return with their friends and especially the grandchildren.