PRAIRIE STATE BONSAI SOCIETY CHRISTMAS PARTY
Date: December 5, 2025
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Place: The Magee Estate in Wayne, Illinois

Please note the date and time change. Larry requested we park in the driveway and enter the party from the rear of the house. It will all be lit up. This is a fun get-together to celebrate the holidays with our bonsai friends and colleagues. 

This is a fun get-together celebrating the holidays with our bonsai friends and colleagues.
Please bring food to share. It can be an appetizer, dessert, or homemade dish. The club will provide pop, water, ice, plates, cups, and utensils.

Please bring some food to share. SEE NEW INFO BELOW. It can be an appetizer, dessert or homemade dish.  The club will provide pop, water, ice, plates, cups, and utensils.  

As usual there will be a door prize. Everyone attending will be given a free ticket for a chance to win.

Also we will be having a White Elephant gift exchange. If you want to play in the White Elephant exchange, bring something bonsai related. If you don’t bring a gift, you don’t get to play. Gifts are typically inexpensive (around $15), can be new or used items, but must be usable, not junk. It can be a pot or tool you don’t need anymore, a book you have read or whatever, but remember it must be bonsai related.  Wrap it well, put it in the gift pile when you arrive and you might actually get something you need when it’s your turn to snag a gift. To determine the gift-choice play order, we will draw numbers from a hat. 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 either steal or take a gift from the pile. If they steal, then 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. 

NEW INFO:  This year we would like any member who plan to attend to RSVP. Also due to the duplicate food options last year, please choose your 1st, 2nd and 3rd choice of what you intend on bringing. Send it to Charlotte. Charlotte will let you know which of your choices to bring. We just do not want to have 6 trays of brownies and no cookies, or 4 cole slaw and no macaroni salads, etc.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!