Pickleball Christmas Party at the Pickle Club
Posted on December 20, 2023 by Ching under Events, Pickleball.
The ladies’ pickleball group that normally plays on Wednesdays at the Pickle Club decided to have a Christmas party and gift exchange on Monday night. Here are some pics from that fun event.
These ladies are so much fun! Can’t wait to celebrate with them again.
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Busy Christmas Party Weekend
Posted on December 18, 2023 by Ching under Community, Events.
Kicked off the weekend with Cindy Egan’s annual Christmas party and gift exchange for the pickleball ladies. She is an amazing host and always comes up with the most fun games!
Here are some snaps from that night…
The next night, Brian and I went Chad and Laura Smith’s annual beer and wine gift exchange. I think we decided this was the eighth one.
Here are some snaps from that event…
Brian and I always love going because then we get to try new beers that we’d never even heard of before, and we ultimately find new favorites. For instance, I had no idea that there was such a thing as slushie beers and they are yummy!
Finally, Sunday night (last night) was Katelyn and Susie’s game night at Grant and Susie’s house. I played a couple of games I’d never played before and it was so fun!
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Magnolia Cafe
Posted on December 15, 2023 by Ching under Food and Drink.
Brian and I finally had the opportunity to check out Magnolia Cafe. About 20+ years ago, we used to live at the 21st and Woodlawn area in Northeast Wichita. Had we been living there still, we would have checked this place out sooner because it would be practically across the street. It’s a bit of a jaunt for us since we live in Southeast Wichita now. Still, I’m glad we went to check it out.
The place is super cute and the food is quite good.
Brian and I went to eat brunch there after I finished running the iPickle Nation Nation Builder at the Sandbox last Sunday. Here are some pics of our food.
We started with the deviled eggs, which was a tad too mustardy in taste for me.
I can’t remember what Brian’s dish was called but it was pretty much your run of the mill breakfast sampler. Other than the good bacon and the homemade strawberry rhubarb jam, I thought the rest of it was pretty basic.
My crab cakes benedict was very good and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Maybe the crab cakes were a tad salty but, much like my personality, it’s just the way I like it.
I actually ordered a side of toast so I could try the homemade jam. I’m glad I did. If you go, you gotta try the homemade strawberry rhubarb jam because it’s not to be missed. I think it was my favorite part of the whole meal.
The location isn’t close to where we live so I’m not sure that we will be going on the regular but this place is pretty good and definitely worth checking out.
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Celebrating Alice
Posted on December 14, 2023 by Ching under Events, Pickleball.
I think I’ve mentioned before that Wichita has turned into everyone’s favorite place to celebrate their pickleball birthdays. This past weekend we celebrated Alice Tunks-Jones, my friend from Emporia’s, 30th birthday.
Our friend Susie Ternes did a fabulous job of organizing and bringing everyone together. She even got this delicious cake.
Here’s a pic of the three of us:
Some of Alice’s friends from all over converged in Wichita as well. It was wonderful meeting everyone.
This weekend will prove to be another exciting one as it is Molly Sager’s turn to celebrate. The Sagers live in Great Bend but will be celebrating in Wichita as well. If you’re having a birthday, and pickleball is part of the festivities, you need to come to Wichita. This is where it’s at – LOL!
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Jeff Bally’s Holiday Hoedown
Posted on December 14, 2023 by Ching under Pickleball.
Some friends helped me test the team tournament function of Swish a couple of weeks ago. Swish is an app that another friend turned me on to a couple of months ago. I’d been testing it out for round robins for a few weeks but I wanted to try the team event feature. Thankfully, another friend (Jeff Bally) let us use his place to hold the team tournament. We called it Jeff Bally’s Holiday Hoedown.
- We had four teams compete:
- Picklebally’s – Jeff Bally, Casey Compton, Olivia Banks, and Bobby Weisbrodt
- Cotton Headed Ninny Muggins – Cindy and Ed Egan, Brandi Richardson, and Ramon Lozano
- The Picklers – Seth Mountain, Greta Siemens, and Sydney and Jon Duvall
- Phamily – Tom Pham, Sarah Berry, Fernando Martinez, and Natalie Lubbers
After five rounds of round robin pool play, one team emerged supreme. The Phamily went completely undefeated that day.
It was a successful test run of the Swish team tournament function. We started around 9 AM and wrapped shortly after 2 PM. I just followed the prompts on the app and everything ran pretty smoothly.
Next up, I’ll be testing the new DUPR X Swish integration. So far I’ve been really impressed with what this free app can do and I’m excited to run future events on their platform.
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