Dinner At The Avalon Grill Friday Evening 2012

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We Head For The Avalon Grill (Page Four)

Avalon Ball 2012
Page 1 - Overview | Page 2 - Trip Going Over | Page 3 - Pre-Dinner Activities | Page 4 - Dinner At The Avalon Grill
Page 5 - Saturday Breakfast and Golf | Page 6 - To The Roof and Dinner |
Page 7 - Saturday Avalon Ball Dance | Page 8 - After The Dance | Page 9 - Coming Home

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Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

The Stuffing Begins In Earnest

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
We had an interesting menu

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Monica and Mike arrive early

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
The party can begin

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Our table was a mile long.... for 26 of us

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Decisions decisions

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Hans got into the bread

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Dang... the glass magically filled itself up

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Brenda and Sam

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Holly and Bill

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Fred and Donna.... Mary is checking for light leaks

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Ford and Jackie

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Amy and Ken

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Kathy and Ed

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Bob gets all the girls

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Herbie and Irene

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Guy and Janet

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
We are right on the beach

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Gail visits everyone

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Herbie is looking for the chef....

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Back rubs are us....

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
"I'll give you a week to stop"

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
"How big was the fish you saw today?"

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Kerstin explains how a salad can have bones

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Knock knock

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Our table was a mile long

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Only way to keep Paul quiet

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Hans and Kerstin

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Guy and Janet

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Herbie is giving us the "evil eye"

 

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Neat fan... We should put it on Herbie's golf bag

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Ed and Amy

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Amy, Ken and Ford

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Ford and Jackie

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Kathy likes fish

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Fred and Donna

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Donna and Holly

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Shhhh, I am hiding

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Holly and Bill

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Brenda and Sam

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Monica and Mike

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Monica tells a story

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Brave man... wears a white shirt to dinner with this crowd

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Sue and Bob watch the cavorting that is underway

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
The pre-wedding dinner was next door and Gail got to mee the couple

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Ta Dah

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

To The Movies... To See The Avengers

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
It was a pleasant stroll to the theater

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
The signs were posted

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Tomorrow night will be spectacular

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Did You Know? - Catalina Island Yacht Club is one of the oldest clubs on the West Coast. In 1893, a Catalina Yacht Club was formed by the Banning Brothers, then owners of Santa Catalina Island. In 1903, the boating residents of Avalon placed pilings for a yacht club in the approximate location of the present Catalina Island Yacht Club. The club was quite active until the great fire of Avalon in 1915, which burned the town of Avalon and bayside facilities. Fortunately, the pilings were spared.

In the early part of 1924, Art Sanger and James Jump, while fishing, decided that Catalina Island needed an "official" yacht club for boating enthusiasts. Mr. Jump secured the facility from the Catalina Island Company, and found thirty yachtsmen willing to pay the $100 initiation fee and dues, plus $400 on a promissory note, so the Catalina Island Yacht Club could build a club facility.

Eighteen of the original members of the Catalina Island Yacht Club were members of the Tuna Club, who desired an organized yachting and social club in addition to their fishing club. James Jump served as the first Commodore. Early club members included a number of well known Hollywood personalities including Tom Mix, Jack Warner, Rudolph Valentino, King Vidor, James Cagney, Jascha Heifetz, and Darryl F. Zanuck. During the war years, from 1942 to 1945, Catalina was largely closed to the public and the Club was used by the U.S. Merchant Marines.

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
The size fools people from a distance....

Did You Know? - The Avalon Theatre, on the first level, shows first-run movies nightly. The theatre has one movie screen and a seating capacity of 1154. The theatre is so well-insulated that patrons cannot hear the band playing or the 6,000+ dancers on the floor above, yet the acoustics are so good that a speaker on the theatre stage can speak in a normal voice without a microphone and be heard clearly by all in attendance.

Additionally, the theatre still has its original 4-manual, 16 rank theatre pipe organ built by the Page Pipe Organ Company of Lima, Ohio. It played every Friday and Saturday evening. The circular domed ceiling has remarkable acoustics studied by experts. The theatre lobby is paneled with walnut wood.

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Heading for home....

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Magnificent walk

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Grappa ready to drink

Did You Know? - Grappa is an alcoholic beverage, a fragrant, grape-based pomace brandy of Italian origin that contains 35%–60% alcohol by volume (70 to 120 US proof). It is similar to Spanish orujo, French marc, Georgian chacha, Portuguese bagaceira, Greek tsipouro, Bulgarian ракия (rakia), Serbian, Croatian (in Istria: rakija and grappa), Romanian tescovină, Albanian, Bosnian, Montenegrin, Turkish rakı and Macedonian ракија.

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
A little dessert to cap off the evening....

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
Irene slugs it down.... SALUTE

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night
The local police keep an eye on our table for some reason!

Dinner at the Avalon Grill Friday night

Avalon Ball 2012
Page 1 - Overview | Page 2 - Trip Going Over | Page 3 - Pre-Dinner Activities | Page 4 - Dinner At The Avalon Grill
Page 5 - Saturday Breakfast and Golf | Page 6 - To The Roof and Dinner |
Page 7 - Saturday Avalon Ball Dance | Page 8 - After The Dance | Page 9 - Coming Home