End of Season Event - Saturday Night at the Courts 3/19/2011

The photos just can't paint the fun and festivities enjoyed by all who attended the Palm Creek Tennis Club's closing event for the season - Saturday Night at the Courts.  But here goes:

Opening ceremonies included the Canadian Choir leading us in the singing of "O Canada"...

...immediately followed by the American Chorus leading us in the singing of "America the Beautiful" as well as the "Pledge of Allegiance."

Steve Allen, Bev Argo, Mark Costello (shown here), Walt Krahl, Pete McGannon, Will Updyke, Richard Weatherall, and Rhoda Zaph put on an excellent exhitibtion singles tournament under the lights on courts 2, 4 and 5.

Richard Weatherall took the gold giving Canada bragging rights.  Rhoda Zaph did an excellent job competing against this top level group that included 6 men and two women as she was the silver medalist!

There were lots of spectators, watching the action on the courts...

...but, the real action was the activity on court 3!  Everyone was greated with a fresh wine glass from our somoliers Carol and Bill Nelson.  The court was set up with 3 appetizer tables, and 5 wine tasting tables: sweet red, dry red, dry white, sweet white and miscellaneous.  Barristas: John and Patti Blessen (shown in the background) and Marg (shown in the foreground) and Gar Wildeman, Wayne and Gwen Black, Frank and Carol Miller and Hank and Gail Verhoeff opened bottles and poured.  Everyone brought an appetizer and a bottle of wine and we went through almost every drop!

The evening ended under the "Super Moon" (the full moon was the closest to Earth) with a pot of StarBucks coffee and a large variety of yummy deserts courtesy of the Palm Creek Tennis Club: carrot cake, assorted cheese cakes, double chocolate cake (Carol Heinz is cutting), tiramisu, apple turn overs, lemon meringue pie, sour cream pudding cake, brownies and chococate chip dunking cookies just to name a few!

The entire Palm Creek tennis club would like to extend  a big thank you to Michael Hill.  Michael provided the large Canadian and US Flags for this event.   He also provided water coolers so we could keep filling the rinse pitchers to keep our "top shelf" plastic wine glasses fresh for the next taste.  But, most of all, a thank you from all of our tennis players for keeping those water coolers filled with icy cold water throughout the season.  Michael, you are the best!

The real show was the creative Black tie attire.   Palm Creek Tennis Club sure knows how to "put on the ritz" so here is a sampling of the "Palm Creek style elegant attire" of some of our attendees.   I apologize in advance to all whose photo is not shown.  Please remember to click on the collage to enlarge the photo.

                                                                                                                                                            

You can't miss Gar's "suave and sophisticated" footware shown directly below the photo of Steve and Gar!

Hope you enjoyed the opportunity to share in the evening if you were not able to make it.  And, for those of you who were there, hope you enjoyed this quick trip down memory lane.

Palm Creek Tennis Club says "Thank you" to our Tennis Instructors

Without a doubt I speak for the entire tennis club in sending a  huge thank you to Skip Nirenberg for serving as the Captain of the Tennis Lessons and his fellow instructors (as see in the center shot from left to right): Skip Nirenberg, Walt Krahl, Mark Costello, Rhoda Zaph and Bob McConnell.  High quality lessons, which are lots of fun, are offered free to anyone who wants to start playing or focus on improving their game.  Thank you all for a great season and we look forward to doing it all again next season!  If you want a better view of the collage - just click on it!