We walked down the path in Woodhaven and then we ventured out to the streets.  Eventually we came upon this beautiful garden and Julie knew the gardener personally.  It turned out that Leslie was a Master Gardener and gave us a wonderful tour of her garden. 

Next week we will meet at the same place but we will be heading in another direction.  Lunch will still be at Pasta La Casa.  See you there!

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Bill Middleton 04/07/2009
 

Another great speaker.  Bill Middleton gave us a talk on his experience volkswalking in Europe.  You always wonder if you could actually do one on your own when you take a trip, but after listening to him, I can't wait.  Bonnie, one of our members, did walks with the Italian group on one of the volkswaking tours, but he said how easy it was just go to on the web to get the information.  All of their walks are usually very rural and beautiful paths.  They offer 5k, 10k and 20k walks, and at each end they have various wines, beers and food you can purchase.  At the end of the walks they offer various trinkets you could purchase such as different beer mugs or even a ceramic gym shoe.  Most of the walks do use walking sticks and they walk much faster than we do and are very well attended by the Europeans.  He brought his event book and his kilometer books, which are the same that we use here, but the stamps have an initial for the country in the stamp.  In celebration of the event, we had near beer, rootbeer, brats and pretzels.  Again, we  had a nice turnout, at least 15 members came for the meeting.  Check out the pictures.

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April 6, SNAILS 04/05/2009
 

Pasta La Casa was so good last week we decided to go back.  Same time, sample place. 

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2009 Amity 04/04/2009
 

Carolyn, Mary, Jane, Bekki, Kathy, Pam and Candice.  Tanner is there, but we just couldn't fit him in!  We had a great time.  After the walk we went for tea at Althea's Tea House in Dallas and then headed for wine tasting at Amity Vineyards.  It was great.  The weather was beautiful and Mr. Fanning, the owner of the daffodil farm let us each pick a bouquet of flowers. 

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