Come join the Alexandria 1st Ward Singles this Saturday at the Annual Kite Festival on the National Mall dowtown. If you've never been to the Kite Festival before, it's definitely something you should see! Hundreds of people bring bring their kites down and compete against each other. The Cherry Blossoms should be in full blossom too, so that just gives you another reason to join us on Saturday in the great outdoors!
The plan is to meet at the King Streeet Chapel at 12:00 and we will carpool down to the mall. Yes, we do think we will find parking! The plan is to park somewhere close to the Air and Space Museum and to have lunch there or at one of the Smithsonian buildings close by. Once we've had lunch, then we'll walk down near the Washington Monument and watch the competitions. The two best competitions start at 2:00 and 3:00. For more information on the Kite Festival, go to www.kitefestival.org
If you prefer to metro down and to meet up with us, feel free to call me on 571-212-4707 or Mike Whalen at 703-256-3247 and we can tell you where we are! Hopefully the beautiful spring weather will allow us to have a great time outdoors!!
Hope you can all join us! See ya Saturday!!
Kite Festival- March 29th!
March 25 Institute cancelled
The Mid-Singles Institute class for March 25th has been cancelled. We will resume the class on April 1st, no fooling. Bishop Sampson will teach the lesson on Elder Maxwell's talk "O Divine Redeemer".
The final lesson from the Elder Maxwell series will be "From Whom All Blessings Flow" taught by Bishop Salmons on April 8th.
Class time is 7:30 pm at the King Street Chapel. See you there.
Contra Dancing
Contra Dancing to Heaven!
Saturday, March 15th 8–11 p.m.
Come dance to a live band!
Gypsy Meltdown
http://www.gypsymeltdown.com/
Caller:
Mark Sherman
Location:
Mount Vernon Stake Center
6219 Villa St
Alexandria, VA
Hosted For:
Mt. Vernon
Young & Mid-Single Adults
essons:
Start at 8pm and continue through the evening. No partner or previous experience required!
Price:
FREE! as long as you have a good time!
(If you really think it’s awesome, then donations to help cover the band are greatly appreciated!)
What is Contra Dancing?:
For more info and links check out
www.blueguitardesign.com/March15contradancing.html
For more information contact:
Justin McCune at justin.mccune@gmail.com
Schedule:
8:00 - The Main Lesson
(courtesy of instructor Lindsey Dodson)
8:45- History of the dance & local venues
(courtesy of Neil Zimmerman)
8:50- The first set of contra dances
(called by Mark Sherman)
9:45- The waltz before the break
(short lesson by Neil Zimmerman)
BREAK
10:15- The second set of contra dances
(called by Mark Sherman)
11:00- The concluding Waltz
Light Refreshments & Water available throughout the evening...
Temple Night
Mid-Singles Temple Night
Join us for 8:00pm and 8:30pm sessions on Wednesday March 26th.
See you there!
Servathon
We will be gathering a team to participate in the DC school's "Servathon". The day is May 3, 2008. Groups will revitalize playgrounds, paint classrooms, and lockers, landscape, and build planter benches.
If we get at least 25 people to sign up by March 16th we will get "team" t-shirts! GO TEAM!
To sign up post a comment to this blog with your name and email address, sign up at institute or church, or email Alicia Poulton.
March 16th Pot Luck
Burn off calories as you move from house to house at March's Progressive Pot Luck!
We will start off with salads at Caroline Marriott's house located at 3052 South Glebe Road, Arlington, VA 22202
Then saunter next door to Rob Griffin, Dallen Herzog, and Michael Taylor's place for an Italian main course. 3018 South Glebe Road
The final course will be desserts at Kevin Rees and Ben Bullough's place. 3014 South Glebe Road
Dining begins at 6:30pm March 16th
Alexandria 1st Ward please bring a dessert and drop it off at Kevin & Ben's place prior to appetizing at Caroline's.
Alexandria 2nd Ward please bring bread that would compliment an Italian meal. Drop the bread off at Rob, Michael, and Dallen's place first.
Crystal City Ward if your last name begins with letters from A-L please bring an Italian dish (main course) to be dropped off at Rob, Michael's and Dallen's first. M-Z please bring a side or salad to Caroline Marriott's.
MARCH FHE
Come join us a the home of Rob Griffin, Dallen Herzog, Scott Porter, Michael Taylor located at 3018 S. Glebe Rd. Arlington, Virginia 22206. The good times and spiritual upliftment starts at 7:30pm. Hope to see you there. Scott P. and I are making a "fantastic" St. Patrick's day treat not to be missed!!!!
Alicia
SKI TRIP!!!
You couldn't have asked for a better weekend to go skiing/tubing/sightseeing in Gettysburg, PA. The snow was perfect (well as perfect as you can get out here), the dining at Dobbin's Tavern was historic, and the tubing was raging!
Some proved their mad card playing skills at the gathering in the hotel lobby. A great time was had by all! 
