Featuring the once-in-a-lifetime Home Gathering with a Slumber Party

In friendship's fragrant garden

There are flowers of every hue.

Each with its own fair beauty and its gift of joy for you.

- Friendship's Garden

We just had a home gathering not for reading, just for chatting and fun! It was a decision made on a spur of the moment. Thinking that I might not be able to see my goldies friends for a month and my home is all mine, I proposed this home gathering. After e-mailing back and forth and several phone calls the night before, seven goldies; Gina, Irene, Kate, Lydia, Pamela, Sherry plus a mutual friend from the China T/Ms Club Jo Shih; made it. It was truly not an easy job in such a short notice. Linda and Michelle had important appointments that can’t be cancelled.

To my surprise, the gathering turned out unexpectedly wild and crazy. The gathering was divided into four parts. Ladies came in three groups at a different time. Jo, Irene and Pamela took a morning train and arrived at 11:20pm. Kate and Gina came by car and arrived at 12:00 noon. Lydia and Sherry took afternoon train and arrived at 15:30 pm. Jo left 1st without meeting Sherry and Lydia. Gina, Kate and Pamela left before dinner for another dinner appointment and missed the venture at the night market. Except Gina, Kate and Pamela managed to come back after dinner for the slumber party. Lydia joint the venture at the night market yet couldn’t stay overnight and left alone by bus. Kate, Irene, Pamela & Sherry stayed overnight for the slumber party and half day outing on the 2nd day.
Irene and Sherry were the two who stayed from the beginning to the end. Unbelievably complicate! What mattered was that we all stove to stick to the gathering. Besides chatting, we had shooting time that triggered the wildest nature hidden and suppressed deep down in our heart, venture tour in the night market with sexy dresses on; slumber party with cocktails, more snacks and poker games; and half day outing at Lovers Lake in Keelung, etc. Finally eating Ice Shavings with a lot of flavorings on it in a snack bar drew the period of our two days gathering. Though we were all exhausted by the time we said goodbye to each other, It was the one-and-only gathering as there will definitely be no 2nd one like this.

The details are too exotic to describe. Let me put Irene, Kate and Pamela’s comments here under for more details.

Irene: We are duplicating happiness, stealing innocence from angels, and living to the fullest! We are the most energetic Golden Girls! Moses was wondering what we golden girls were doing and fooling around, here it is! My husband said to me before I left home on Saturday morning, "how could you not wear like a mother of 55 and grandma to be!? Jesus Christ!!!"
I am sure he will pass out if he sees the photos. Without Trini’s proposal and opening her big house "once in a lifetime" for us to visit, golden girls will not be able to write another colorful leaf in our lives.

I was very much impressed by Trini's enthusiasm & hospitality that made her stayed up until 4:00 am to do the cooking, and broke her antique porcelain clock during cleaning. She was so much depressed over the clock. Fortunately her broken heart was patched up and healed immediately with our happiness and friendship.

A good film needs an outstanding director. Sherry, the creative girl couldn't stop gearing our actions and motions one after another. Of course, we were wonderful actresses!

Eating, photographing, gossiping, recipe discussing, strolling at the market around the temple, playing cards, sightseeing, so many activities happened in less than 30 hours. Isn't it amazing, although exhausting! Let's open the photo album after 20 years...... Thanks girls, we are the best!

Kate: Girls, everything is perfect - company, food, drink, Sherry's crazy ideas, Trini's hospitality, Moses' offering of a ride back to Trini's place. Another wonderful memory. I am still recovering from the fatigue of staying late on Sat. Trini, thanks for giving me a big "KISS". It is a lovely picture.

Pamela: Trini, I am almost too full, too exciting, too happy to write. But I have to let you know how much we appreciate all the delicious meals you cooked, beautiful dress you let us try on and the cute "party accessories" you prepared. Everything you prepared was just fantastic. In addition, I can't thank you enough for bringing us together and providing us with the opportunities to take adventure doing something that we don't normally do.
Dear Sherry, Kate, Irene, Lydia, Gina, Thank you for giving me such a wonderful and exciting weekend. It was definitely the best ever. Don't forget we will have the next party in the end of November. Please leave the date open for me.

To conclude, it was an awesome gathering. Without goldie friends, our lives couldn’t have been so colorful, enjoyable and fulfilling.

Trini
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