Our Official PAGAN Picture thread should give us a way to present bites of the wide topics that were shared. To explain that the focus was a natural flow of sharing while taking in some of the sites is like finding the same grain of sand after it gone from the top to the bottom of the hourglass.

Post away PAGANS and each grain will holds 11 perceptions. :thumbs:

Hmm?!?


Am I dreaming?


How come I'm just now finding this out?


I must say, it would be a nice central location for the next gathering...

Whew! I thought they said in the back of a Nash, and I haven't even seen a Nash in years. :confused:

:roflmao:

At the end of our dinner on Saturday night, I was not the only one that was on a pink cloud about our meeting so when and where the next Pixie event might take place was casually discussed. When a southern US location was mentioned, Nashville was suggested as a possibility that would let it become another PAGAN. :)

i'm so happy for you guys. and so thrilled to learn that you all had a terrific time.

((((hugs)))) and ***kisses*** pixies.

PAGAN 09 - Pixies Adult Gathering In Nashville. This was first mentioned by OF at the dinner and Mrs OF liked the idea. Then OF started trying to think of other citys that start with the letter N for future PAGANs.

Does it have to be 3 years away??? :(

That is totally up to all our Pixies. :nod: It just happened it was 3 years between our first and second gathering.

Oldfart won't be back in the states for 3 years is the only reason he said that long.

I'm good for next week. :D




Hmmm ... maybe a practice get together in a year or two? :rolleyes2

Frankly, it may take 3 years for us to cool down from the heat wave we've been in...if PAGAN comes south, it should definately be in spring or fall for sure...I would hate to have had these folks visit during this month & everybody miss each other because no one would dare leave their air-conditioning behind...

That truly was one of my primary concerns from the start. :wish: An oppressive hot day :hot: would not have been out of order for the place and date we were working with. As it turned out, we could not have ordered a nicer weekend :thumbs: …… or it was the combined Pixie force radiating out. :loveshowe

Should be OK as long as we don't get carried away with the "N" thing & end up in Nagasaki or Nairobi...unless we establish a strong Pixie presence in these places...

I bet you've never been to Nepal. :rofl:

Illinois has Nokomis and Niantic. :blink:







Well, it does. :boink:

Could use the *N* states too.

Hey DB how about Normal. Only problem is, is that Pixies are not normal :gb:

I'm sure I've NEVER been to Normal...



wouldn't even begin to know how to find it, even with GPS...

Actually, Normal would be easy. It's where the Illinois State University is located in central Illinois at the junction of I-55 and I-74. :blink:

Nokomis and Niantic would be a bigger challenge. :boink:

Guess we also have Naperville and North Pekin. :rolleyes2


:D




PS .. If you read this earlier, I'd described the location of Urbana where the UofI is located. My mind was drifting (So what's new?). Normal is next to Bloomington only about 25 miles from here. Mea Culpa. Thanks to Scarecrow for catching that and letting me know I goofed. I'm glad someone is looking out for me. ;)

LOL @ you Nowhere men :)

I want another buffet like that Sunday one! Can a strapping Pixie man bring me a ton o' scrambled eggs & hash browns at the very least (I wouldn't turn down bacon, either)?

I suggest Niceville or Naples.

Is there a 'Nipples' somewhere? :boobs:



:brows:

We could go to Big Bone Lick State Park located in Union, Kentucky although it doesn't start with an "N". Or, how about Toad Suck Park near Conway, Arkansas?

Illinois has Goofy Ridge. (Figures :rolleyes2 )

Hey, there's Nutbush and Nameless, TN and they even start with an "N" :)

Speaking of "N's", Needmore, GA might work.

Birthplace of one Anna Mae Bullock, AKA Tina Turner...

Or...we could gather somewhere IN or around OHIO, lol..

If it had been any better, we'd have been thrown out.

*sigh*

I was just looking at this thread again, too, soda. I WANNA GET BACK TOGETHER!

I do hope we can do this again. Probably will hold off for a time when OF & his bride can make it back to the states, but it's not too early to start thinking about someplace we could hold another "PAGAN event." Sharni, start filling your piggy bank ... just in case. :) Ideally it'd be a place that might have some appeal (even without PAGAN). Some talk had been made about Nashville (to keep the "N" in pagaN), but other choices could be good. Houston with the Space Center; Atlanta with the Underground and Stone Mountain; New Orleans; Orlando; northern Florida where we could all stay at Lilith's house ( :yikes: ... although we'd no doubt have to ask her before we all showed up. :D ); Yorktown or Gettysburg for the history buffs; San Antonio (Riverwalk; the Lone Star Brewery; & Circus Museum); Peoria (okay, that's a stretch ... but there is a lot going on around here with the Wildlife Prarie Park (bison, deer, wolves, etc. in a natural setting); a planetarium; great museum; zoo; botanical gardens; gambling boat; stern wheeler river boat rides ... you could do worse); etc. Of course, we had talked going south ... so input from our southern friends would be especially welcome.

A plus would be if there's one or more Pixies in the general neighborhood who could help spot lodging (economical but nice); restaurants; sights to see; places to gather as a group; ... stuff like that. Might also think about transportation ... good Interstate Highways; rail or air links; things like that.

Any suggestions??

How to warm up a cold winters day, good memories.


Lets see, its been 6 months and 12 days?

I would suggest Branson,Mo. reasonable rooms, decent to really good food,music shows for most all tastes for the nitelife,close by in Springfield is a civil war battle field for the history buffs,and Bass pro not just a store but a walk thru meausem.It is some what centrally located for a lot of Pixies.Also there are 2 lakes right there all in a National Forest,Hikeing,lots of nice campgrounds.

It SURE does cause us to sit here with big smiles. :D

I think it's only been 5 months and 15 days according to the calendar, but I know that has to be wrong. :confused: It was either last week or a year ago. Both feelings keep surging through me as I re-read these threads. :)

There are a lot of good suggestion ^^^ up here for a next event. Right now a traveling puppet show is enough of an attraction for me to want to be at another get-together with Pixies.
:line:

I'd really love to be able to make it to the next PAGAN!!!!! *starts saving the American pennies from her change*

when is the next pagan and where?

I'm a bit out of the loop here...what exactly is PAGAN?

And would I be required to bring beverages? :cheers:

PAGAN was a get together held at Niagara Falls, ONT last August. Eleven Pixies attended. Mainly got to know each other, spend some time together, had breakfast and supper together on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday. All but two stayed at one hotel but all eleven got together to go shopping; see some of the sights. Had a great time. At dinner we goofed around (see some of the photos) with a game hosted by "Red Green" at which Steph won the honor of being the "Guardian" of the colors with flags from Canada, Australia and the US (representing the three countries with PAGANS present).

Does that help?

Now, several of us are hoping to get back together one of these days and maybe be joined by several other Pixies who weren't able to attend last summer.

Oh, yeah, PAGAN stood for Pixies Adult Gathering At Niagara. :)

Ahhh...now THAT sounds like fun! And now I can enjoy these pictures more since I know what's going on!

Get together this summer, eh? Hmmm...a bit too early for me now to make solid travel promises, but if the twain meets, I might be down for it, meself...

*grabs Mercury Maniac by the ear and twists until his neck tilts, then turns his head back to the thread and press his nose against the monitor*

READ!
We aren't going to accept your excuse for not being there next time.

<---- can tell MM never had a nun as a teacher

I doubt our next gathering will be this year but I sure hope EVERY Pixie possible can be there after what we experienced at PAGAN. It's hard to know how our postings come across to those that weren't able to be a PAGAN 06, but it was truly a super thing for all of us that were able. You can go back twenty sum pages, to the start of this thread (one of the best on our board in my opinion ;) ) and see how this unfolded. It starts slow, gets serious, goes to silly, turns to excitement and then the shock of how really great it was for all of us. I don't think the next gathering will be as close to you as this one was, Irezumi Kiss, but I can promise it will be something you will never forget when you get back from PAGAN 08. ;)