The Red Hat Society is 28 this month

 

For the last four years, Mulburry Parc Retirement Living in Burnaby has invited us to celebrate Red Hat's Birthday.  They roll out the "red" carpet for us.  This year they served  afternoon tea!  It was delicious.  The chef came and explained about all the sandwiches and desserts.  He explained to those with Celiac or have a nut allergy what they could or shouldn't eat. They gave containers for those who live alone to take leftovers home.  Very thoughtful!

The plant is on the left along with a nice glass of champagne as we entered!

The scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam were delicious

This year we lost three members.  Our Queen displayed a memorial with their pictures and Red Hats!

Elizabeth, one of our long time members had a lot of red hat regalia.  Before she passed, she donated it all to us.  In January we had our lunch and displayed all of her red hat regalia for anyone to take.  No money was exchanged, just remember Elizabeth when you wear it.  Vicki, our of our members was the same size as Elizabeth and she wore Elizabeth's clothes to our lunch yesterday!

Vicki in her finest Red Hat attire!

On May 3rd our late member Janet's family is having a Celebration of Life.  We will go in our Red Hat regalia and celebrate her life.  It's a wonderful organization!

The Red Hat Society has spread to other countries in the world.  As of 2011, besides the thousands of chapters in the U.S., there were local chapters of the Society in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Ecuador, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guam, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Namibia, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Scotland, South Africa, Sweden, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, and Wales.  They didn't publish how many members they have so I asked AI and AI said 50,000 world wide.  

When I went to England a few years ago, I emailed a Red Hat group in London and joined them on a trip to a small museum and lunch!  They were a hoot!  We went to a pub for lunch and left at 4:30!!!  No one drove, they all took the train.