Sharing the Magic Worldwide
2nd Annual Holiday RADP Meet Weekend
December 6-7 1997
Sunday December 7
Brown Derby Dinner
The Final Weekend Mystery Guest came to the Tower of Terror meet; but not everyone at Dinner took the fall….so our last Mystery Guest was announced — Laura Gilbreath (Tigger2) and Lee Zimmerman from San Diego, California. Laura writes: Back in May, Debbie Wills (of WDWIG) asked me if I would consider being a "Mystery Guest". I couldn't make the Saturday meet because of a prior commitment, but decided that we could make the meet on Sunday…so Lee and I made plans, and kept our secret for 5 long months. 🙂
From Left to Right: Larry and Pam (Scrappy) Kratz, Laura Gilbreath and Lee Zimmerman (tigger and pegasus are in the photo too)
and actually Lee was feeling a bit left out of all the fun…so I hopped over and sat on his lap and gave him a Big Mickey Santa Hug!
The Spencers! Katie, Jeff, Susan and Brian
From Left to Right: Steve and Donna Schwartz and Meli and John Emmons
From Left to Right: Don and Sid Arnez; Von and Scott Liljenquist
From Left to Right: Dave, Mary and Kimberly Rogers
Merlib Writes: Today was the day I had been waiting for. We were to meet fellow RADP'ers at the Brown Derby for dinner and I was really excited. Finally, the much anticipated time was here. I was really looking forward to meeting some of the people I had been chatting with via mIrc and whose posts I had been reading for about two years, especially Deb Wills, gardenia and Jeff Spencer.
Meli adds: I met Mary at my very first RADp meet held in January 1997 at the Fifth Avenue Disney Store, and had since met her husband and daughter at Hercules Summer Spectacular at the New Amsterdam Theater.
Kimberly Rogers and Miranda Patton have some fun at the Brown Derby Too!~ RADP'rs in training!
All Mystery Guests were presented with a colorful WDW Entrance Gate Frame for their favorite photo. Meli, Laura, Eureka and Karen
Meli and Laura share a few laughs and love their WDW Frames
The radp-babes got into the act and all gathered around the Brown Derby Tree for this group photo op.
The Czarina herself is in the lower middle of the photo. Then, left to right: Karen "LadyLurker" Harland, Pam "Scrappy" Kratz, Laura "Tigger" Gilbreath, Barb "gardenia", Michele "MamaMouse" Warner, Deb "Jasmine" Wills, Andrea "TigerLilly" McKenna, and Meli "MistressMeli" Emmons.
Julian and Susan met the week before at Wilderness Lodge and had a great time. They were both huge helps during the Brown Derby dinner… Julian was kind enough to order my meal and beverage and Susan took photos with my camera!
Deb and Barb finally have a chance to sit down and relax after a wonderful night enjoying dinner with 54 friends.
Heartfelt thanks to Philip and all the staff at Brown Derby for
making the evening so VERY special! You all did a SUPER job!
After dinner smaller groups went to World Showcase and Fountainview in Epcot for Illuminations and light watching, still another group headed over to Pleasure Island.
