Yeah!! Mark Your Calendars: Greater Phoenix DU Get Together

[lady lib]

McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park
Located at 7301 E. Indian Bend Road (Scottsdale & Indian Bend Rds.)
http://www.therailroadpark.com/visitor.html
Sunday, October 16th
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. or whenever B-)

There are grills and shaded picnic tables located around the park. Availability is first come first serve, so you might consider bringing your own chairs/table and grill if you want. Otherwise, bring a blanket and a picnic lunch. We'll have a liquor permit.

Wear your DU shirt if you've got one!

:applause: :toast: :bounce: :hi: :toast: :yourock: :applause:

Can't wait to meet everyone. :hi:

[Hello_Kitty]

1. Cool! And, on October 15th

The GEMDems (Greater Eastern Maricopa Democrats) will be having a picnic at Pioneer Park in Mesa. For more details on that event check out our site GEMDems


I'll try to make it to the DU meetup! Thanks to all of you who set it up.

[lady lib]

7. GEMDems, Pioneer Park in Mesa, Oct. 15th.

Got it. :hi:

[Dez]

2. What a great idea!

I'll come if I'm down there then.. I'm in Sedona, but don't go down there too often.

[lady lib]

5. We'd love to see you if you're in town. eom

[NMDemDist2]

3. cool, it's on the calendar thanks! n/t

[lady lib]

8. Looking forward to meeting you.

:hi:

[Fridays Child]

4. Can an old lady from Tucson come to the party?

:)

[lady lib]

6. Absolutely!!

If you don't mind driving, you and everyone else around the state are invited.

:woohoo:

[Fridays Child]

9. Cool. I have room for an extra Tucsonan or two.

Sharing the gas might be the way to go, if anyone's interested PM me.

[Catshrink]

10. Cool -- Can I bring my dog?

[lonestarnot]

12. I have six or you could come here.

[lady lib]

15. I'm not sure, but

here's a phone number for the park office and you can ask
(it's actually the number for the party reservations desk, but the person there should be able to tell you if dogs are allowed in the park).
480-312-2312

[lonestarnot]

11. Oh boy oh boy! And where did you get those cute smilees?

[lady lib]

16. Glad you like them. Here's the link

http://smiley.onegreatguy.net

Fair warning: the smilies are cute, but this is NOT a site for kids (unless you feel like explaining what the smilies are doing to each other).

[blondeatlast]

13. I'm there! Anyone bringing the kids?

I have an 8 year old boy with progressive tendencies already!

[lady lib]

17. I'll probably bring my two daughters

ages 12 and 15.

[jillan]

20. I'm hoping to make it.

One of my daughters is having her 16th bday party the nite before.
Cosmic bowling, which is over at 12;30 AM. And then of course the sleepovers. So if I make it, I will be a major zombie! But I really want to meet everyone.

Your 15 year old, and Melissa will have to meet each other. Maybe we can start the next generation of dems. Strength in numbers! She does have a couple of friends that are as passionate as we are. One was with us the nite of the rally.

[lady lib]

21. That would be great. Looking forward to seeing you again if

you're not too exhausted that day.

As you know we live in uber-red Mesa, so most of kid lib's friends and their families are Repubs. She still speaks up and she's probably changing some minds, but it would be great for her to have more friends who are on the same page politically. She just joined the Amnesty Int'l club at her high school is hoping to meet some like-minded students there.

[saracat]

24. Yay! Pirhana! I am looking forward to meeting you!

[jillan]

29. you as well...

I'm really really going to try.

This is going to be tough.

[lonestarnot]

23. Bringing my son and one of his friends.

[lonestarnot]

14. See you there!

sorry I had to!

[blondeatlast]

18. Time for a damn I missed the rally kick. I want to meet y'all

but I had stomach flu (ugh) which has finally gone!

:kick:

[SammyBlue]

19. Somone in Tucson want to carpool? Split gas money?

I'm taking time out of my NFL schedule to come, so welcome me please. This is my first if I can make it.

on edit: My dual turboed sports car can get us there in about an hour if there are no DPS on the road. :)

[lady lib]

22. It looks like Fridays Child might have some room to carpool:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=139&topic_id=2726&mesg_id=2735

:hi:

[NoodleBoy]

25. looks like I'll probably go...

will bring along my dad too.

[lady lib]

26. Yeah! Looking forward to meeting you and your dad.

:woohoo:

[NoodleBoy]

27. are there grills in the park, or should we bring our own

it just wouldn't be right to have a bunch of good people in a park without some grilling going on.

[lady lib]

28. That's for sure. There definitely needs to be some grilling

going on! The park has grills and picnic tables scattered throughout (all shaded by trees), but, there's no guarantee that they will be available. And since this park is very popular during the nicer weather, it would be wise to assume that they won't be available and bring a small grill along with some folding chairs (and possibly a table) just in case.

[lonestarnot]

30. This is next Sunday for those of us with tunnel vision.

[NoodleBoy]

31. so who wants what from the grill

we'll bring hamburgers and hot dogs by default, but in case anyone wants something different, like veggie stuff or something.

[NMDemDist2]

32. i'm thinking we should start another thread with who's coming and

how many guests and who's bringing what

whadda ya think?

[lady lib]

33. Go for it.

:yourock:

[NoodleBoy]

34. word