Barnes & Noble Society Tea

Each year the Official Red Hat Society and all of the Red Hat Chapters celebrate the beginning of our Society in a wide variety of ways. This year on the official anniversary date of April 25, 2005 The Red Hat Rovers gave a Tea and invited all of the area Chapters to attend. We had a beautiful table set up at the southern Barnes & Noble bookstore. It was decorated with a purple tablecloth and a great poster by Suzy. We served warm cookies, hot coffee, and iced tea provided in part by B & N. A number of Sue Ellen Cooper's book "Laugh Lines: Stories of Inspiration and Hattitude" were sold as well as a few other Red Hat related goodies.

This was the first time I wore my now famous *Purple Hair* and I did attract quite a bit of attention as well as many humorous comments! Obviously, it was "the Real Me". During the day we met a number of old friends and made lots of new friends. Ladies came, sat awhile, had tea & cookies, chatted, took pictures, and left ... only to be replaced by others and the cycle would begin again. It was a wonderful day and everyone appeared to enjoy themselves just as much as I did!


Being back at Barnes & Noble with so many Queens and Red Hatters reminded me of the first Red Hat Tea I ever attended at this very same place just exactly one year before.



That was when I chose Suzy to be my Queen and asked if I might join The Red Hat Rovers. To my everlasting joy, she said yes and changed my life for the better. She got a crazy lady with purple hair and I got a Chapter full of Sisters and Friends ... the kind that last the rest of your life!

~*{}:-) Lady Macintosh