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Dynamic Professionals (Age 50 + We are a SINGLES group)
**Please have a photo on your profile to be accepted as a Dynamic Professional member** I request this for the safety and security of all of our members. If, for some reason you don't feel comfortable posting a photo, email me and I'll provide my phone number to speak to you personally prior to acceptance with our group.
Membership fees - No membership fees at this time.
Removal from group - As the Organizer, it is my sole discretion to remove a member from the group. If I don't feel the member is a "fit", if a member doesn't get along with others, if a member causes undo hostility, if more than one complaint has been voiced about a specific member, just to name a few.
As you can see from our wide variety of past meetups - we have events and adventures for everyone. Favorite places to visit for daytrips and weekend trips, favorite local restaurants-both new and old, group dinners and more intimate dinners, dancing, sporting events, mystery theatres, boat trips, wine tastings, museums, historical sites, movies, theatre, cabarets, musical events (from new age to classical), visits to parks, hiking, skating, go carting, zip lining, paint ball, and the list keeps going. Many more activities to be had in the warmer months. Be sure to hit SEE ALL as our events and trips go out more then 12 months.
Check out past events & adventures to wet your appetite and show you what a wonderful group this is. Read the reviews and comments and don't forget to check the photo's from previous events.
RSVPs go fast within this group.
Members should be 50+ years of age (or close to it) and SINGLE, but those numbers aren't set in stone, had to start and end somewhere. Once you're a member, you WILL ALWAYS BE A PART OF THIS GROUP and are welcome at any event even if you become a "couple" with someone in or outside the group.
You must be an individual that cares about their appearance, has a zest for life, has an ACTIVE and healthy lifestyle and the means to join us for some of our events. Those that enjoy getting together with and being respectful of others. Inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated in anyway. Inappropriate comments and/or other harassment of any member will be grounds for removal from our group.
At times you will be asked to participate in bringing a dish or your beverage of choice. Posts will always give plenty of info and/or suggestions as to the nature of our event and what is needed.
Please share your questions or comments. If anyone has an idea, please share with me and I’ll post and put it out there to see if there’s any interest.
Let your friends know about Dynamic Professionals 50 +, we hope to make this a very popular meet up with a new concept and twists on old concepts. Thanks for your interest!
Warm regards,
Ellen Foster, Organizer
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- 12 Day Crown of Egypt w/4 Day First Class Nile Cruise $3,913.95Egypt, Egypt
12 Day Crown of Egypt with 4 Day First Class Nile Cruise
$3,913.95 Dbl occupancy Add $900 SingleApril 16 – 27, 2024
Members that booked previously got a $570 discount and Cabin A. This is a new sale price, only B Cabin available.
Egypt's history and culture have not changed but current political and cultural events have left their mark on daily life. Security is of primary importance and you may see more armed guards and police vehicle presence. We encourage you to travel in groups and not alone. Many domestic flights within Egypt depart in the early morning, requiring waking before dawn. Early morning touring is done when possible in order to avoid mid-day sun and humidity and to ensure there is ample time to visit the destination highlights. Local dress code, hygiene and diet recommendations are provided. Due to Egypt's proximity to the Sahara Desert, local hot winds bring sand and dust everywhere.
The best time to visit Egypt is between October and April as temperatures are cooler, but you're still guaranteed sun. This is when the weather is most comfortable, which is perfect for exploring Cairo and the Pyramids.
- Price includes discount of $500 PP, Cabin upgrade (Category A), travel insurance, r/t air, transfers, meals shown and full itinerary shown. Cabin B inclusion based on availability, upper deck, outside deluxe cabin.
- This NEW SALE PRICE WITH INCLUDED DISCOUNT GOOD THRU Thurssday, June 15 or until sold out ONLY 2 SPOTS OPEN
- Optional excursions – Choose from 6 additional excursions, choose 1 or all
- Deposit $399.95 PP Final Payment* due January 2, 2024
- *Additional 5% discount ($175) if paid with electronic check
- Round trip flights New York-Cairo, Cairo-New York
Check out the full details, itinerary, optional excursions and more
https://efoster.dreamvacations.com/travel/cruise_articles/CMSStandardPage.html?edOid=1613180715Summary itinerary below, full details by clicking link above.
DAY 1, Tuesday - Depart for Egypt
DAY 2, Wednesday - Arrive in Cairo
DAY 3, Thursday - The Pyramids & Sphinx of Giza
DAY 4, Friday - Flight to Luxor, Half Day Luxor
DAY 5, Saturday - Temples of Karnak, Nile Cruise Embarkation
DAY 6, Sunday - Full Day Luxor
DAY 7, Monday - Edfu Temples & Kom Ombo
DAY 8, Tuesday - Cruise to Aswan
DAY 9, Wednesday - Disembarkation, Aswan High Dam, Philae Temple
DAY 10, Thursday - Flight to Cairo
DAY 11, Friday - Full Day Cairo
DAY 12, Saturday - Depart Egypt - Kentucky Derby Party @ Smart Batch Cellars WinerySmall Batch Cellars, North Haven, CT
Kentucky Derby Party $20 PP Purchase tickets online
https://shop.smallbatchcellars.com/product/Kentucky-Derby-PartyIncludes food from the amazing Ani of Ani's Table! Hours are still 3:00-9:00 pm. The beautiful music of Red Planet 6:00-9:00 pm and the race is on around 6:45 pm!
*If you would like to host the group, please contact me. 561-262-2800
- Live music by Red Planet
- Food available for purchase
- Join the hat contest for great prizes
Dapper Dan
Best Gents Hat and EnsembleToo Hot to Trot
Best Ladies Hat and EnsembleHat-A-Tude
Best Handmade/Upcycled hatRide Em
Best Horse themedDaily Double
Best Stylin Couple - 14 Day Tour of Italy: Tuscany & Amalfi Coast (2 dates MAY or SEPT) $4,248 PPItaly, Italy
May thru September are the best times of the year to visit Italy, a time of bright days, mild temperatures and the first & last hints of summer in the air. I am doing the May tour and will have a PRIVATE DINNER for our group set up in the Montecatini region during our visit.
The Deal Includes - Choose from either a May or a September departure date May 4 – 17, 2024 OR *Sept 14 – 27, 2024 $4,248 PP
Call 561-262-2800 or email: efoster@dreamvacations.com to request Client booking form. If you've traveled with me before, I will just need updated credit card info and your choice for additional excursions.
THIS DEAL AND TOUR WILL GO FAST SO DON’T HESITATE. I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS EXACT TOUR TO COME ON SALE. SALE GOOD ONLY THRU JULY 26TH!!
Bring a friend or another member, or I can pair you with a roommate.
- $840 Discount PP (already deducted from above pricing)
- SALE GOOD THRU JULY 26TH, 2024
- May option -Non Stop Flights New York-Venice, Rome-New York.
- Sept option – Flights not yet available
- Other city departures available, call me 561-262-2800
- Deposit $300 PP Final Payment due January 19,2024
- Single supplement add $950
- Included - Leisure Care Travel insurance
- Add $516 if you include all 6 additional optional excursions. Pick & choose which ones you want, see itinerary.
- 12 nights First Class accommodations
- 2 nights Venice
- 4 nights Montecatini
- 3 nights Naples or Sorrento Coast
- 3 nights Rome
- Italian city hotel taxes, fees & service charges, Hotel porterage
- All transfers included
- 19 meals: 12 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 6 dinners with wine
- Sightseeing per itinerary in modern air-conditioned motor coach
- Services of English-speaking tour manager throughout
- Services of local guides in all major cities
- Entrance fees per itinerary
- Comfortable wireless earphones for enhanced touring
Special Features
- Visit St. Mark’s Square in Venice, with its extraordinary treasures and architectural wonders
- Walking tour in the walled city of Lucca, a jewel of medieval architecture
- Enjoy a Tuscan farm dinner with wine and olive-oil tasting
- Explore the Renaissance city of Florence with a guided walking tour
- Experience one of the world's most spectacular drives along the Amalfi coast
- Travel past the Bay of Naples and Mt. Vesuvius to Pompeii, the city frozen in time
- Tour the Vatican Museums and Michelangelo's incomparable Sistine Chapel
- Historic tour of Ancient Rome including the Roman Forum and the Colosseum
For full day to day itinerary click on the link below:
https://efoster.dreamvacations.com/travel/cruise_articles/CMSStandardPage.html?edOid=1613132165 - Fiction Addiction ~ Book Club: 1st Tues each month EXCEPT JAN, JUL & SEPCafe Fiore - Cromwell, Cromwell, CT
Viewing on a smart phone? Click on "read more" for book list. Three months titles are listed.
Our group is co-ed and has been meeting for nearly 13 years. We enjoy chatting with each other, eating good food and discussing interesting books. Every meeting is fun! Newcomers are always welcome!
Please RSVP on our Meetup website. The next books will be posted every 2 months.
UPCOMING DISCUSSION:
May 7, 2024 Tom Lake by Ann Patchett - reviewer, Carol CranstonIn this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.
In the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today.
****Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Fiction (2023)June 4, 2024 The Red Book by James Patterson and David Ellis Reviewer, Doug Losty
For Detective Billy Harney, the distance from hero to statistic is one false move.To Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force -- Special Operations Section (SOS) -- getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case.
So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago's west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney's instincts -- his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force -- run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones.
When Harney starts asking questions about who's to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the flip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going ... until Harney's quest to expose the evil that's rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past.
July 9, 2024 No Two Persons by Erica Bauermeister, reviewer Carol Zandri
One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s No Two Persons is “a gloriously original celebration of fiction, and the ways it deepens our lives.”That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go…
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.
Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.