What a magical, marvelous mixer! We really had a great time last night, hanging out our members, getting to meet a whole bunch of new people and to seeing some old familiar faces as well.

Jasmine hosted a marvelous party at her office. Due to the excellent cooks throughout our group, we had an amazing feast. Shane brought his signature (as of last night ) ribs, Debbie put out an impressive sushi display, and it seems like everybody managed to get at least one lumpia. Llewellyn, as a firm believer in testing, sampled everything and vouches that it all was good.

Our guest entertainer for the night was Star Alexander, the Motivational Magician, who went from group to group, amazing everybody. In Llewellyn's group, Star showed (or didn't show?) us how the eight of hearts has a habit of showing up at the top, bottom, middle and even sometimes behind Llewellyn's ear. Most of the time he amazed everybody with his close-up magic. Meanwhile, many of us had our fortunes told to us by Star's wife, Lady Star, and she informed me that our group will double before the summer solstice!

One story I'd like to share is about Chris's father. Chris' father works for Union Bank, just like Sue, and was supposed to fly back up to San Francisco for a meeting but postponed it to attend our mixer. Now you might ask yourself, "Is our mixer fun enough to postpone a flight to San Francisco?" And the answer is, 'YES!', yes it is. But that's not why he wanted to come. Chris's father wanted to come because he's so happy with the growth he's seen in his son since he joined our group. While that says quite a lot about Chris, I also think that says quite a lot about us.

The night closed with Star Alexander showing us some of his larger tricks, colorful coloring books, picking bubbles out of the air, rings out of envelopes, and thumb cuffing Llewellyn. A fun time was had by all.

We look forward to seeing everybody at our normally scheduled meeting next Thursday morning.

Thank you to everybody that came!

Rich & Llewellyn