Singles Parties, April 24 - 28, 2009

While I was hiking in 5 National Parks in Utah, we had two great parties over the weekend:

• Silicon Valley Singles Convention, Friday, April 24, at the beautiful Crowne Plaza Cabana Resort Hotel in Palo Alto. I am told by Barbara Millin of Singles Supper Club, who ran the convention in my absence, that Dr. Wendy Lyon gave a very entertaining presentation on Overcoming Roadblocks to Love. DJ Miguel did an excellent job, as usual, with the dance music.
• Blue Jean Ball, Saturday, April 25, at Graziano's Ristorante in Petaluma. Jim Spillane, who ran this party for me, reports that we had an excellent turnout and that the dance floor had to be expanded to accommodate the enthusiastic dancers! Jim also reports that DJ Darryl, as always, did a great job spinning the right tunes.

After I returned from Utah, we had a Young Single Professionals Party, Tuesday, April 28, at Azul Night Club in San Francisco. Our young singles had a great time with the mixer game for the first two hours of the party. I left before the dancing started, so I can't report on that.

We have two events coming up this first weekend of May:

• Baby Boomers Convention, Friday, May 1, at The Clarion Hotel SFO in Millbrae. This is the first convention ever held in the Bay Area just for single boomers. Should be a great turnout in this beautiful hotel ballroom. The Dance Party takes place from 8pm-Midnight. Preceding the dancing, we have a FREE seminar on How to Save Your ASSets from Uncle Sam with our boomer financial consultant, Timothy R. Yee of Cathedral Financial.
• Singles Mixer & Optional Live Band Dance, Saturday, May 2, at City Beach in Fremont. This is a huge facility--you have to see it to believe it. The Wade Love Band will be performing, following our singles mixer.

More info about all of our events at www.ThePartyHotline.com. See you at the parties!

Singles Parties, April 14 - 18, 2009

3 parties this past week:

• Advanced Degrees Mixer, Tuesday, April 14, at La Toscana in San Rafael. Lots of people and lots of appetizers at this wonderful Italian restaurant.
• An Elegant Evening at The Claremont, Friday, April 17, in Berkeley. As with last month's party, another big crowd. Our singles sure love The Claremont!
• Dance on the Bay, Saturday, April 18, at The Sherman in Buringame. We packed the ship again! It never left the dock, but people didn't mind, with such a high-energy crowd.

Next week features two big parties:

• Our annual Silicon Valley Singles Convention, Friday, April 24, at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Hotel in Palo Alto, features Dr. Wendy Lyon revealing How to Overcome Roadblocks to Love. Our unique combination of an entertaining lecture by a relationships expert, followed by a giant Dance Party, always attracts a crowd.
• Blue Jean Ball, Saturday, April 25, at Graziano's Ristorante in Petaluma. Usually we ask people to dress up for our weekend parties (coat & tie/dressy attire), but tonight we go informal. Wear your finest blue jeans! DJ Darryl K of Mobile Sound and Video will spin his usual magic with the greatest songs of all time.

More information about all of our singles events at www.ThePartyHotline.com.

Singles Parties, April 3 - 11, 2009

We had 6 singles events over the past two weeks:

• Lock & Key Dance, Friday, April 3, at the Pleasanton Marriott. Excellent turnout! DJ Slick spun his usual magic, playing our favorite hits from the past.
• Art & Wine Tasting Party, Saturday, April 4, at The Artists Alley in San Francisco. Once again a great crowd. We always seem to do well at this beautiful art gallery.
• Single Cougars Mixer, Sunday, April 5, at the Moorpark Hotel in San Jose. Nice turnout, excellent and plentiful appetizers.
• MidLife Singles Mixer, Tuesday, April 7, at Kingfish in San Mateo. Our first time at this lovely restaurant, with 1920 art deco style. Very good turnout, despite a little rain, and the appetizers just kept on coming! Annie Gleason of Get a Love Life gave an entertaining talk on MidLife Dating.
• Looking for Love in All the Right Places Seminar, Tuesday, April 7, at College of Marin. Small but enthusiastic class.
• Singles Charity Ball, Saturday, April 11, at the Westin St Francis Hotel on Union Square, San Francisco. A phenomenal crowd! Everyone spoke positively about our new DJ, Jerry Schultz. 100% of your tax-deductible donations went directly to The Seva Foundation to cure blindness. We raised $7,385 after expenses, which will enable Seva to restore sight to approximately 148 blind people! This is based on an average cost of $50 per eye surgery in the poor countries of the world. If you did not get a chance to attend, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to The Seva Foundation.

Next week features three more fun singles parties:

• Advanced Degrees Mixer, Tuesday, April 14, at La Toscana in San Rafael. Here's your change to meet singles with a Doctorate or Master's Degree.
• An Elegant Evening at The Claremont, Friday, April 17, at the East Bay's most luxurious hotel! Dance to your favorite hits with DJ HickeyB! of Choice Music.
• Dance on the Bay, Saturday, April 18, aboard The Sherman, the San Francisco Peninsula's only floating restaurant!

More details about all of our events at www.ThePartyHotline.com. See you at the parties!

Singles Parties, March 27-29, 2009

Barbara Millin of Singles Supper Club ran our Welcome Spring Dance on Friday, March 27, at Tarragon in Sunnyvale. She reports that it was a fun party with a moderate attendance.

I was up in Reno at The Silver Legacy for the National Baby Boomers Festival. We did not get the huge crowd we hoped for, but I received many compliments, especially about the great speakers. One of our Boomers wrote a sonnet about the festival that says it all:

The Baby Boomer Festival - a sonnet

In recent months the New York Exchange took a nose dive to the floor,
Retirement accounts were cut in half with many new stories of greed.
But the Spirit of the Baby Boomers now whispers that life is much more,
And a new gathering of California and Nevada Boomers is what we need.
We'll play the Beatles and Johnny Mathis with all those lights dimmed low,
The old favorites will be enhanced as the words are mouthed by our DJ.
We'll dance with her being cheek to cheek as in the Boomer days we know,
The best ever of great music and times...the Boomer Way is the only way.
But the Baby Boomer Festival was much more...even learning how to flirt,
With a lock by her heart, we unlocked new friendships with Lock and Key.
We had more than one dance in that weekend and music to turn many a skirt,
And there in a long row of couches were gals who would Speed Date with me.
And I believe for me over these three days a few of Cupid's arrows did fly.
A woman's name did Cupid whisper into my ear...grateful for your work am I.
Thank you Rich and Debby for this event, Steve Lauritzen...Hawthorne NV

Next weekend features three singles parties:

• Lock & Key Dance, Friday, April 3, at the Pleasanton Marriott
• Art & Wine Tasting, Saturday, April 4, at The Artists Alley in San Francisco
• Single Cougars Mixer, Sunday, April 5, at The Moorpark Hotel in San Jose

More details at www.ThePartyHotline.com. See you at the parties!