Wasn't that a party - day 3

On our last day, Ellen and I took advantage of the sunshine and hopped into my VW and drove out to join the girls at Minter Gardens.

We met at the Trillium Restaurant where we enjoyed their buffet brunch.

We then headed off to walk through the gardens which were spectacular as always.

It was a gorgeous afternoon and we leisurely strolled through the beautiful gardens and took time to chat with each other.

We stopped to do an errand and then sat on our patio until it was time to drive up the hill to Julie's where she'd rented the clubhouse. She'd set up her table with every attention to detail. It was lovely - all lace and pretty dishes and there was a rose at each place setting.

It was fitting that our last meal together should be a Mennonite one. Julie treated us to her wonderful schnetki (recipe on the MGCC blog), zwiebach, borscht and flapper pie.
Absolutely delicious!

After dinner Kathy and Marg - our intrepid and creative social coordinators, presented us all with kind words and a small gift.

I think these are the girls that deserve the accolades as they did an incredible job of organizing our first ever MGCC "summit".

Our time together ended the way it began with an "Aufwiedersehn Gedicht"

(farewell speech) from our two Mennonite Frauen (ladies).

Our time together ended all too quickly and we hugged and promised to meet again soon.

Thanks so much to Betty , Charlotte and Ellen who traveled here so we could all be together;

to Kathy and Marg for all the hard work they put into planning this;

to each girl who hosted us and

to Lovella for putting her dream into reality and including all of us in it.