Dinner at the General's house

On February 8th, the General and his wife had a spouse appreciation dinner for the Golf Company spouses. It was really nice!

We were all supposed to meet at the O Club before hand to ride a bus to their house due to limited parking. Well, we met at the O Club, but there wasn't a bus. I don't know what happened to it. So they needed volunteers to drive people to the house. My car holds 5 others besides me, so I volunteered. Now nothing super exciting happens when I am driving by myself, but when others are in the car, something seems to always happen. So I crossed my fingers that nothing would happen and followed the rest of the caravan to the house. Luckily nothing happened on the way there. Phew!

Once we were there we handed someone our coats and went through a small receiving line and then got in line to get a drink. Mrs. Mills (The General's wife) talked to us as we were in line about where we were going next. My answer was easy: We have no idea yet. Since Brian is staying here for IOC we will find out around the end of April instead of 2 weeks ago like everyone else. It's ok though. I'm used to the waiting game and plans changing by now. We mingled for a bit and then we were told dinner was served. I had been freaking out the whole day because I was afraid of the dinner. The only thing I really knew about fancy dinners was with silverware, you start from the outside and work your way in.... and I learned this from Pretty Woman. Yay me! So when we started for the dining room, I silently sighed in relief that it was a buffet dinner of Mexican food. Everything was delicious! Then for dessert we had a piece of chocolate torte and chocolate & banana empanadas. Also very tasty! This experience was a great opportunity. I really enjoyed it!

When we left, we grabbed our coats off a rack, received a etiquette book and piled back into the car. There really wasn't a caravan back so I wasn't sure which way to go at the first fork in the road. Luckily I had good guessing skills and picked the right fork and got back to the main road. Then there was the traffic circle. Traffic circles in the dark and in the rain were not my thing that night. You would think with the words "traffic CIRCLE" it would have been easy. But the lanes kept changing from you can only go straight to go straight or turn left to go straight or turn right. I rarely drive over there. I conquered the traffic circle though and made it safely back to the O Club to drop off my passengers at their cars.

Then came the thank you note writing part. I looked up in that book we got on how to write a thank you. I've written them to friends and family before but never to a General's wife. The book was freaking me out again. It said I needed either an embossed or monogrammed thank you card! What?!?! I buy my thank you cards at Walmart in packs... Luckily for me, January told me that the book was written in like the 50s and embossed and monogrammed thank yous were not necessary. Thank you, January! I finally wrote it and sent it.

The stressing is over!...For this event at least.....