Cyndi called me one day in August of 2003 and said, "I know what we're going to do." I said, "Okay, what?" I had discovered in our relationship it was easier to just go with the flow, since I seldom won an aurgument with her. Besides whatever she came up with we always had a ball!. She told me we were going to start a Red Hat chapter. I said "Okay, but what is it." She preceeded explaining that she had heard about it, & that it was a group of girlfriends who got together once month to go out & have fun; that we would have to wear red & purple in public, and that I would be the Queen. I asked her how come she wasn't going to be Queen since it was her idea. She informed me that she wasn't old enough, that you had to be 50 or older. I later found out she lied & I fell for it. We got on line and researched how to start a chapter. It didn't sound difficult. Our biggest worry was that we would be the only ones to come. But we decided since we could have fun together sitting in a box, we could be a 2 person chapter. We each invited friends we thought might have fun being silly with us, and hoped we would have 5 show up for our 1st meeting. Our first meeting was September 18, 2003, in Garret, with 16 lovely ladies attending. Who knew what we started.... Cheryl

Our chapter is made up of "Red" Hatters and "Pink" Hatters. A Red hatter is a girl 50 or better and a Pink Hatter is a girl in waiting (under 50). We have 2 rules (actually 3): 1) Girls 50 & better must wear purple outfits with red hats to our functions. Yes, we mean in public! 2) Girls in waiting must wear lavender outfits with pink hats to our functions. And our most important rule is 3) HAVE FUN!

Our November meeting will be at Blu Tomato. This is located at 2787 Maplecrest Rd just North of State Street. It's next to Belmont store(I believe) and across from Georgetown North. We will be meeting at 6:30.

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