All the ladies now.....

On September 18, we hosted a Women's Dinner for local ladies who come to the hospital or who have been friends of the hospital for a long time.  This event was part of our 50th Anniversary series of events.  We have our big 50th Anniversary Party coming up in November.  We're gearing up for that now.

Something different here for me was planning the event in Arabic and English.  We needed to plan everything with the local ladies in mind.  So our emcee needed to speak in Arabic and English.  Our invitations, programs and other such things were all in English and Arabic.   

Rocky Mountain Chocolate (yes, we have those in the US) made chocolate spoons for us and wrapped up a hospital mug with chocolate spoons as the gift for each lady.  Also, we were able to get some donated gifts from local places to give out to the women for different awards (such as the attendee with the most sons, grandchildren, great grandchildren, daughter, educational degrees, etc). 

It turned out to be a great evening.  We didn't get a ton of pictures as local ladies don't like their picture taken ....so we had to find a few who were willing and we snapped away!

 We had a local artist come to display her art.

 We were having a hard time finding women who were willing to get their picture taken so we had a few people "set a scene" for us but they couldn't stop laughing.