Join us for the last get-together of 2022

Bring snacks and your favorite NA drinks, plus a white elephant gift.

There will also be a door prize chance whether you are naughty or nice.

We will have our annual Christmas Party this year on December 7 ( our regular Wednesday meeting days ) at the College of DuPage. This is a fun get-together to celebrate the holidays with our bonsai friends and colleagues.

Please bring food to share. It can be an appetizer, dessert, or homemade dish. It can NOT be anything that requires an open flame, and NO alcoholic beverages are allowed. The club will provide pop, water, ice, plates, cups, and utensils.

As usual, there will be a door prize or maybe two. Everyone attending will be given a ticket for a chance to win it.

Also, we will have a White Elephant gift exchange. Bring something bonsai-related if you want to play in the White Elephant exchange. You don’t get to play if you don’t bring a gift. Gifts are inexpensive and can be humorous, new, or used items, but they must be related to bonsai and usable, not junk. It can be a pot or tool you don’t need anymore, a book you have read, but remember it must be bonsai related. Wrap it well, put it in the gift pile when you arrive, and you might get something helpful when it’s your turn to snag a gift from the heap. We will draw numbers from a hat to determine the gift-choice play order. Starting with #1, the first person picks a gift from the pile, then unwraps and displays it for all to see. The second and all subsequent people can steal or take a gift from the pile. If they steal, the person who just had his/her gift stolen can take a gift from the pile OR steal any other gift (EXCEPT the one just stolen from him/her). No limit on how many times a gift can be stolen. When all the gifts have been opened, the first player who started the game (who, by the way, never had the option of stealing a gift, to begin with) gets to either keep or exchange his gift with anyone playing, thus ending the game. It is a very fun event; bring a gift and participate.

Please remember to keep the date open for our Christmas party. We always have a good time, sooo, even if you don’t usually make it to our regular meetings, do plan on coming to this.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Meetings are held on the first Wednesday from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at The College of Dupage campus in the TEC 1038b.

The college address is 425 Fawell Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

Members who are unable to attend in person may join via ZOOM.