The 3rd Annual Remember WENN weekend just ended and we all had a wonderful time. It was great seeing all the people I'd met before and especially wonderful meeting some of the WENNers I'd never seen!

There was one major disappointment and concern. I contacted Mary Stout Friday morning and she told me that she would not be able to meet with us after all. She was in Ohio visiting her mother who had broken her hip. Of course we all understood completely. Under the circumstances, her place is with her mother, not dining with a bunch of fans. Best wishes for a quick recovery to Mary's mother and of course I hope that we do get to meet Mary at some point.

So here is a basic rundown of some of the stuff we did this weekend:

I met up with everyone on Friday night at about 7 in the lobby of the PanAmerican hotel. Rita's flight was delayed in Chicago and she got there about

8. At that point we were all there and we went out for dinner on Friday night

at a Chinese restaurant about 3 blocks from the hotel. The food was excellent

and the prices were reasonable. I gotta remember about this place.
The people who were there for Saturday dinner were me, Emma, Rita, Britt,Suzanne, Kathleen, Linda, James, Adina and Linda's Mom, Mary. Afterwards I

drove Kathleen to the subway because she had to get to a big meeting the next day. It was great meeting her, even if just briefly! Then I went home quickly to pick up my VCR.
When I got back to the hotel and went up to the party room, Cindy had arrived! She hooked up the VCR and showed us some wonderful music videos she had done including a superb one featuring Hilary Booth and all her beautiful gowns!

I headed out and went home at about midnight, and we determind to meet up in the hotel lobby again at 10 AM Saturday morning.

Saturday:

We met up on Saturday morning and went over to a local diner for brunch. Alan and Julia met up with us afterwards and we headed over to Flushing Meadow Park, the site of the World's Fair grounds for both the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs.

The 1939 World's Fair was the one that World of Tomorrow was about. The

fairgrounds were a lot of fun. We took a group picture in front of the

Unisphere, and we saw the "Panorama of New York" which is a scale model of New York with every single building and bridge in New York City. You walk around it on a walkway. It is really fascinating to look at.

Then we took a look at the display of World's Fair memorabelia from both fairs. There were some gorgeous posters, programs and souveniers. We saw a poster that we think is the same one that is in Scott's office. Then we visited the gift shop and headed back to the cars.

On Saturday afternoon, we headed into the city. Britt had left that morning to

meet up with Diane and we were supposed to meet up with them later, but

unfortunately because of a lot of crossed wires and cel phone problems we never did hook up in the city and didn't see Britt again untiil we got back to the

hotel that night. We never did see Diane (Hi Diane, sorry we missed you!!)

We started at Times Square where it was, of course, very crowded! But as

always, very interesting to look at. We met up with Kerri at the Marriot

Marquis hotel which is in Times Square. Then we cut over to 6th Avenue and ate some dinner at a very nice restaurant on 6th and 50th Street called Chez Louis. I had the barbecued ribs. It was a very nice place. Good food, and not

terribly expensive as midtown restaurants go.

Then we took a stroll down 5th Avenue from 50th to 60th Streets. We enjoyed

browsing through Rockefeller Center, St Patrick's Cathedral, and the Plaza

Hotel. We were planning to stop at FAO Schwartz toystore as well, but we got

there about 10 minutes after it closed. Oh well. Kerri left at that point to

go back home. Then we took the subway back to Queens and walked back to the

Saturday night we sat in the party room and watched episodes. We saw 4

episodes, Strange Bedfellows, Close Quarters, Scott Sherwood of the FBI and The First Mrs. Bloom. We enjoyed them all, as always. Cindy headed out after that to drive back home to New Jersey. It was after 1AM when we finally broke up and went to sleep. We decided to meet at 9AM in the lobby the next morning.

We waited in the lobby until Alan, Julia and Alan's and my friend Marty arrived and we could drive out to Long Island in two cars. Linda, James and Linda's mom had to head out, as they had a long drive to Providence ahead of them. So we said goodbye to them and headed to Long Island. We went to the 56th Fighter Group restaurant, an excellent World War II themed restaurant out near Republic Airport, a small private plane airport. There is a WWII plane museum next to it as well.

We had the breakfast buffet and afterwards walked around looking at some of the planes before we went back to the cars. On the way back to Queens we stopped at "Young's Farm" a fruit and vegatable farm stand that has fresh produce in one half and fresh baked goods and crafts in the other. It's a very nice place that I try to get out to at least once or twice each summer. I came home with strawberries, tomatoes, lemon bars, shortcakes, and two kinds of bread, lemon bread and bananna bread. Well, I'll be eating nicely this week!!

Once we got back to Queens, Suzanne needed to go the airport and Adina needed to be picked up by cab at the hotel, so we made sure they got to their

respective destinations. At that point, it was just Britt, Emma, Rita, Alan

and me (and Julia) left, and Britt had two hours to get to the airport. So we

decided to go over to Eddie's Sweet Shoppe for ice creams. Good decision! It

took just the right amount of time and was a lot of fun! Afterwards, Emma and

Rita stayed over at the hotel until Monday morning, and Alan, Julia and I drove

Britt to the airport for her own flight home. A very successful weekend was at

I loved doing this in New York. We all had a great time, and I hope I can see

everyone again at some point. I'm also sure everyone else's perspective is not

exactly the same as mine and I'd love to read some other accounts of the

weekend as well.

Hope everyone got home safe and sound and the flights and drives weren't too

hideous. Best wishes to all!!

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