…to laugh and talk with these girls!
6 of the 10 contributors on the Mennonite Girls Can Cook blog.
Julie, Bev K. , Betty R., and Charlotte were unable to join us.
It was my first face to face with all these ladies. You know these girls are even thinner in person. I forgot to ask them their secret on how they stay so slim while cooking all that great food!! And for the record…Kathy, I think you are great!! I feel so blessed to have been adopted into the fold even though I’m not Mennonite. Many of our Russian recipes are similar to the Mennonite favorites.
Before eating we got a little shopping in. After lunch we parted ways. I headed South and they headed North with a stop at the Tulip Fields.
I brought home a food gift and the prize I won on Judy’s blog giveaway a while back.
My own Vancouver Olympic Mittens and a Canada Pin! Thank you MGCC for a wonderful day and thank you Judy for my prize. I love the mittens and the pin.
Before I met up with the girls I had a quick stop at the tulip fields and I’ll show more of those photos later. Blessings!
Photobucket is holding all my photos that I stored on their site from 2007-2015 hostage replacing them with ugly grey and black boxes and asking for a large ransom to retrieve them. It is a slow process to go through all my posts deleting the ugly boxes.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Hi Ellen – I was so disappointed to have not been able to join you today. I have my kids and grandkids here from Sask for just 2 days here on a last minute trip and they took priority. I hope we can meet sometime soon as I would dearly have loved to be there with you all today. Glad to hear you had a good time and found it easy to visit with these great mennonite gals. How blessed we are to have this communtiy of likeminded friends.
Bev
Ellen . ..I loved the post. . I just finished mine for tomorrow and smiled to see the same pictures on yours.
It was a real privilege to meet you and just for the record “I think you are great”.
I’m glad you had a safe ride home and I hope you are enjoying a very nice evening with your childrens’ dad.
Hugs. .
Lovella
This is too sweet, Ellen! 🙂 I love Mennonites Girls Can Cook blog…. every time I go there, I feel inspired to cook.
How fun that mus have been. I’m glad you got to participate. Wonderful photos 🙂
How fun indeed! And some days I just don’t go check MGCC out….how they are skinny is indeed a mystery. :o)
Ellen, it looks like you had a terrific time! I’m so glad it was a fantastic day for all of you! I love MGCC — one of my favorite blogs by a group of my favorite ladies!
Thank you for sharing with us!
LaTeaDah
What a blast…Mine site will come up on Friday Fave!!!
Good to get to know you. We laughed and giggled just like girl do with out any restrictions…How old did you say we were? I doesn’t matter anymore.
Ellen… such a sweet post! It truly was great to finally meet you! Thank yo for taking the time and being brave enough to come out on your own. I can hardly wait to get my pics uploaded and sorted out … I hopped into my hubby’s car as son as we got home from La Conner, to go to Vanouver with him and we just got home… So.. we’ll see. If I can’t sleep… I’ll blog. If I sleep, it will be up later this week. The tulip fields were beautiful! It was a wonderful day!
You girls looked like you were such a good time!! I can imagine the chatter around the table. How lovely that you were able to get together.
and great mitts!!
And please do share the secret of the skinny Mennonite cooks. I’ll be waiting to hear 🙂
You are right…it was so much fun! I’m looking forward to our next meeting already…who knows where?
I’m smiling about all our chatter…and I too’ think you are great’.
How fun was that. And I love that you won the Olympic mitts. I don’t even have a pair of those! :v)
What a fun day! There’s not much better than meeting a blogging friend and becoming real life friends!
Oh Ellen, I am so glad you could meet the Canadian MGCC girls half way like that! Wonderful…and what a great place to meet!