Parties, June 6-10, 2006

Our Younger Man/Older Woman Party on Tuesday, June 6 was a little surprising. Naturally we expected a lot of older women and younger guys, but actually got more younger women to attend than usual. Go figure. Wish we had more young guys at the party. Guess they just hang out at the local bars and complain that all the women are unfriendly. They should have come to our party! People enjoyed our celebrity mixer game and the food was good. The weather was perfect (we were out on the patio, with heat lamps). Very nice turnout for a Tuesday night!

Our Asian/Non-Asian Mixer on Thursday night had the opposite problem. Lots of guys (mainly Caucasian) and very few Asian women. I don't know why they didn't come, as we usually get a good number of Asian women at our parties. The more I do these parties the more I realize how unpredictable they are. Difficult to get the ratio right.

The Young Single Professionals Party also had too many men early in the evening. Don't know where the young single professional women were, but they weren't at our party! After our two-hour mixer the DJ started playing hot music and lots of women arrived. Wish they had come earlier.

Saturday Night Singles party went well. Dance floor was packed from 10pm on. The food was great. I don't know why more people don't come early (food comes out at 8pm) and just have a free dinner with us! Makes no sense that they go to the effort and expense of eating before arriving, when our chef always gives us a nice hot meal for free.

Next week we are sponsoring Lock & Key parties for the first time in Sonoma and Solano Counties, so we should attract very good turnouts! Thursday night, June 15, the party is at the lovely Flamingo Resort Hotel in Santa Rosa. Karaoke follows our Lock & Key Mixer. On Friday, June 16 we are at the Holiday Inn Fairfield. Dance Party follows Lock & Key, with DJ Javier playing your favorite hits.

The big one this weekend is on Saturday, June 17, at O'Neill's, a new nightclub next to AT&T Ball Park in San Francisco. We begin with a Wine Tasting Party, with all the wines you can taste, from boutique wineries, plus appetizers; followed by a Live Band Dance.

Our annual Single Fathers Day Party is also on Saturday night (on the eve of traditional Fathers Day). Single dads get no respect. The only time the news media comments on them is with the phrase "dead-beat dads." What about the millions of single fathers who work hard at providing love and security for their kids? On Saturday night we honor them with a Dance Party at the Embassy Suites San Rafael.

Hope to see you at the parties!