The Welcome Dinner is full & it's looking like us slow Welcome Dinner signer-uppers need some food for Thursday night. But there's no need to pout, we are having the 1st ever Not-So-Welcome Dinner at our cabin in Fontana Village. Anybody that wants to come to the NSW cabin & eat some yummy chili Thursday Night around 5PM (eastern time) is welcome.

I propose to cook a ginormous pot of chili for any of us that missed the welcome dinner cut off because, while we may be procrastinators, we still feel the need to gather as a herd. If a whole bunch of folks want to come I will make a double or triple ginormous pot if need be with plastic sporks & bowls how hard can it be . All I ask is that you might drop me a PM or post in this thread if you wanna come & have a bowl so I will know how ginormous my chili pot should be. Please come, come on over, the more the merrier.

Thanks to MINI of Nashville for sponsoring some food & everyone else that is bringing something. We are good to go on food.

T-Shirts will be deivered by shankrabbit at the Dinner to those that ordered. (see post 90)

1ST ANNUAL not so WELCOME DINNER

Cabin location
Cabin 549 on Welch Road (approx 1 block up from the General Store)

Start Time
5PM Dragon Time

We will have plastic bowls & spoons for everyone.
Please bring your own libation/beverage (ice if ya need it) & a lawn chair.

Menu
chili
chili-cheese cornbread
more chili (courtesy of ashboomstick)
lasagne (courtesy of SB)
spaghetti & french bread (courtesy of MINItencan & helpers)
Chicago Hot Dogs (courtesy of french_toaster)
hors d'overes a la party franks (courtesy of Louispup)
fruit dish (courtesy of muidaq)
napkins (courtesy of iflymini)
some munchies (courtesy of Greatbear)
more munchies (courtesy of a bunch of folks)
meatballs (courtesy of artmamayellowmini)
BBQ & Tater Salad (courtesy of John Monk & MINI of Nashville)

Official Door Prizes
Free Dragon Parade passes (courtesy of SB)
Last minute Door Prizes (courtesy of snooter & the Welcome Dinner)
sjolly candy
2 MINI keyrings (courtesy of sjolly)

Unofficial Attendees for the
Not-So-Welcome Dinner
bamatt (party of 1)
SB (party of 2)
orthomini (party of 2)
Mini7 (party of 5)
sjolly (party of 2)
ashboomstick (party of 1)
jst4fun (party of 1)
blalor (party of 1)
Rocket City Mini members (party of 2)
minihoopercooper (party of 3)
StJamesG8 (party of 2)
davavd (party of 1)
welshmenwillnotyield (party of 2)
BlueCooperS (party of 2)
shankrabbit & Isabella (party of 2)
cubbyr (party of 4)
iflymini (party of 2)
muidaq (party of 2)
secunn (party of 2) 1 Hoosier & 1 Hoosier's wife
Minutia (party of 2)
JohnMonk (party of 8) MidTnMINIs
Pebblecrusher (party of 1)
John and Cindy Fewell (party of 2)
JCWGrover (party of 2)
Chase (party of 3)
Greatbear (party of 1)
MINItencan (party of 2)
Louispup (party of 2)
french_toaster (party of 1)
S Curvz (party of 2 or 3?)
AQuickVR6 (party of 2)
artmamayellowmini (party of 2)
CarlB (party of 1)
Winston03 (party of 2)
Moskito (party of 1)
MiniFrau (party of 3)
CRasH180 (party of 2)
Nails_69 (party of 2)
If I've missed anybody let me know & thanks to shankrabbit for the most excellent artwork

Edit for Charity Update: It seems like many of the other MOTD functions are donating to a good cause & HEY we are now legit enough to have our very own T-Shirt so lets jump on the charitable bandwagon too. If you can't give that is A-OK but if you can even spare a dollar, it will be greatly appreciated. I will put a donation jar out at the NSW Dinner. It will be amazing if we can raise enough to sponsor one or 2 animals...


PLEASE DONATE
to the Shelby County Alabama Humane Society
Shelter Partnering Program

EVERY $50 DONATED
SAVES ONE DOG’S LIFE!!!

In 2005, 4400 animals were euthanized in Shelby County Alabama
because homes could not be found for them. While in New Hampshire
there are waiting lists for animal adoptions due to their more stringent
spay & neuter laws. Since November 22nd the Shelter Partnering Program
has found new homes for 158 dogs with families in New Hampshire.
The program relies on volunteer drivers & donations to transport the
animals on the 1317 mile rescue trip to New England.

For every $50 we raise, we can sponsor one dog to leave the Alabama shelter
& go to New Hampshire. The Shelby Humane Society will send us a picture of
our sponsored dog (hopefully we can raise enough to sponsor more than one dog).
They will also provide us an update once our dog(s) has been adopted.
Once we get our pup's info, I will post it on NAM so we can follow our dog’s progress.
Please donate so we can save a few lives

 

I'll help out with some food. I can make up a pan or two of Lasagna ahead of time and possibly a grill for hot dogs or something if more show up.

I like your name. The not-so-welcome dinner.

 

Woot Woot sounds like we got a meal happening for us procrastinators. The not-so-welcome dinner no disrespect to the welcome dinner organizers at all we are just the shameful procrastinators that have learned our lesson for next year because we missed out. We need some takers & a head count

 

You could always change the name to Procastinators Pot-Luck Welcome Dinner or just do it some other time.

 

good one....

 

Why would we do it at some other time? That kinda defeats the purpose plus there might be 300+ people with nothing else to do not that we could feed 300+ people but still, changing the date/time would require extra planning which, sheesh, <sigh> you know good and darn well is not an option for us procrastinators

But in all seriousness, we are serious about having a notsowelcome dinner for our fellow procrastinators

 

Sorry about the sell out folks , when we started planning this in October, we used the 240 dinners sold at last years Dragon (over a 8 week span) as a guage. Never in our wildest dreams did we anticipate selling 300 tickets in four days.

 

my son Ian and i would love to come. same place as before?

 

Ortho, I'm not sure where our cabin is this year but I should know soon & will let ya know

 

Bamatt,

Chilli sounds great!

I don't you guys, you don't know me. But if you own a Mini and you are going to the Dragon...you must be alright. In my book anyway. I look forward to meeting you and making some new friends!

Joe

 

Look forward to meeting you Mini7. SB & I will post more info soon

 

Look forward to seeing you there, Mini7.

 

Count me in as a possible. My wife bailed on the Dragon due to choir commitments( ), so I'm gonna see if a friend wants to come and that'll determine if I'll be down on Th. or Fr. (hopfully Th.) (<--- apparently I've got Brew-Swap on the mind! )

 

I'm also unwelcome, so I'd love to join y'all for some chili! I'm a brewswapper, too, so I should have some good, hearty New England brewskies in the boot.

 

any dogfish head brews from delaware? id pay you for some if you dont already have too much to bring.

 

blalor, How many will be in your dining party

 

I also know nobody, and am in the "oops I procrastinated too long" boat. If you've got room for 2, my wife and I would love to stop by. Is there something we can bring?

 

StJames glad to have you & your wife coming Lets see how many takers we get. I can easily cook enough chili for 30 in my stock pot & SB is going to bring something too (possibly lasagne). If it gets too big I will let ya know if we need you to bring some extra food
Teresa

 

Just me, all by my lonesome.

 

Bamatt, we have two more from RCM. They don't post here so I don't have a username. Just put two down for RCM.

I'll be bringing some lasagne and if needed a grill or two for extra food.

BTW, we may have another door prize. Two free passes to the Dragon Parade.

 

OMG OMG WOOT WOOT more door prizes
I heard those free passes were very hard to come by

 

Gotcha blalor

 

Hey, Teresa.....I think Phil & Becky from Ohio will be joining your Alt Dinner. He doesn't post much on NAM, so I'll check back with you to verify.

 

Thanks Clo, let me know when you find out for sure so I can keep my headcount up

 

bamatt,
Count me in. Let me know if I can bring anything.