Summer Party

We recently celebrated our pool opening with a "Cheeseburger In Paradise" party for our residents. Jimmy Buffett music was played while we served a beautiful cheeseburger bar with an array of toppings. We even had a fresh french fries served out of our deep fryer. The residents dressed in luau attire and we supplied them with leis and flowers for their hair. It was a great turn out and the residents thoroughly enjoyed it. :)

Everyone knows that July is usually a pretty hot month, especially in Miami. The idea of the "Summer Splash Party" is to not only give our residents something to look forward to, but to entertain the children of our community. This party would include renting bounce houses, inflatable water slides, water guns, and ready access to a hose. The splash will be located outside of our clubhouse, but inside of our air conditioned clubhouse we will have a dj and finger foods available for adults; this gives them the opportunity to socialize with eachother. Outside we will have the grill cooking hotdogs and hamburgers. We will also rent snow cone machines and have plenty of refreshments to keep the kids well hydrated.

Have a catered barbeque cookout for the residents. This promotes community involvement, let's everyone have fun and keeps all residents and their children safe and happy!

Let's go Fishing is a local Volunteer group that takes pontoon boats out with people to fish or just a day on the water. We have organized 2 of these in cooperation with the Lets Go Fishing organization for our Senior Tenants and have had a full house each time! We provide the transportation through a local bus service, set up the boat schedule and ahve a BBQ or picnic lunch after the boat ride. It is a great day for the seniors and the staff. We would donante the $500.00 to the Lets go Fishing organization if choosen ! The seniors get so excited and plan for this days ahead, they wear big brimmed hats and have sun umbrellas too. Lots of laughter starts before the bus even gets to the front door for pick up.

Our event had a caravel theme which included a dunk tank. Two employees and the community postman took shifts sitting in the tank. We also had a two caravel games which included two inflatable basketball hoops and an inflatable baseball batting games. Stuffed animals were purchased from the dollars store as prizes for the caravel games. We also reached out two several vendors who donated gift cards for raffles drawings and contests that we had through out event. We were also able to use a few of the gift cards to purchase household items such as crock-pot, DVD player, toaster oven, and a blender which were also given to contest winners. We requested visa gift cards since our contest were designed for both children and adults. Our contest ideas came from the game show minute to win it. We played...