Our Holiday Party will be Saturday, December 11, at 7PM at the President’s home in Broken Arrow. Directions are below.
We have several traditions for our party. First, members write stories or story fragments of about 1000 words. This year stories include celebrations at the winter solstice. In keeping with the group’s genres, the stories should be SciFi, fantasy, or horror. This year, our stories should feature more than one culture or tradition. For example, your story might have Odin instead of Santa, or elements of the Roman feast of Saturnalia. The story should also include the word whelve, which means to hide or bury.
Bring your stories in a plain, unmarked manila envelope with no identifying marks in the story–no author byline. We’ll randomly draw and read the stories, after which we will all guess who wrote which story. The person with most correct guesses wins a door prize supplied by the hosts.
Another tradition is an optional gift exchange. Those participating bring an inexpensive gift ($10 or less, please!). We’ll have a drawing to see who gets which gift.
Our final tradition for this party is for the host to provide a light dinner, supplemented by pot luck offerings from the group. I anticipate that we will have ham and cheese sliders, lobster crostinis, a seven-layer salad, and iced shrimp. I do not anticipate preparing a dessert, so if you elect to bring something, that would be awesome. I also expect to have the following soft drinks: Pepsi, Coke, Diet Coke, Mountain Dew, Root Beer, Orange, 7UP, green tea, and coffee. We also may have a non-alcoholic punch. If you don’t see your favorite soda on the list, please drop me a note and I’ll try to have it on hand We’ll have ice available through the door in the refrigerator. We’ll also have napkins, plastic plates, flatware, and and cups.
If I’ve missed anything, please let me know!!!
Directions to 6609 South Chestnut Avenue, Broken Arrow.
Take the Creek Turnpike to the Aspen Avenue Exit.
Go SOUTH on Aspen Avenue approximately 0.3 miles to the stoplight.
At the light, turn RIGHT (WEST) onto Tucson/121st Avenue.
Turn LEFT (SOUTH) in 0.2 miles onto Chestnut Avenue–the first street on the left. The name of the subdivision is the Reserve at Spring Creek.
6609 South Chestnut is about 0.1 miles on your left.
Alternate routes that avoid the Turnpike.
From Midtown.
The simplest route from Midtown is to get on Riverside heading south and stay on it. South of the Creek Turnpike, it makes a long, gentle curve to the left and eventually becomes eastbound South 121st Street. You can follow this all the way to our subdivision, a little over six miles after the street becomes east-bound. From Memorial Avenue, it’s 3.9 miles to Chestnut Avenue and our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. Turn south on Chestnut, and our home is on the left after about 0.1 miles.
Many Tulsa streets also connect through to 121st Street, and so there are variations of this route depending on where you connect with 121st Street. Yale, Sheridan, and other streets further east all continue to 121st Street. Note that Harvard and Lewis dead-end and do NOT connect to 121st, while Riverside actually becomes 121st Street.
From the north via 169.
Get off 169 at 91st Street. Go east about 2.5 miles to Aspen/145th Avenue and turn RIGHT (SOUTH). Continue south on Aspen 3 miles to 121st/Tucson Avenue. Turn RIGHT (WEST) on Tucson, then in 0.2 miles turn left onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 mile on the left.
From Keifer/Glenpool
Take 67 east to US 64 (Memorial Avenue) in Bixby. Turn LEFT (NORTH) on Memorial and proceed north 3 miles. Turn RIGHT (EAST) on 121st Street/Tucson. Continue 3.9 miles to our subdivision, the Reserve at Spring Creek. At the subdivision, turn right onto Chestnut Avenue. Our home is about 0.1 miles on the left.
Street Names in Broken Arrow.
Broken Arrow and Tulsa are now adjacent to each other, but this wasn’t always the case. Because of this, their street names are different. To help with way-finding, Broken Arrow has given most major streets two names. One is the traditional BA name, and the other is the corresponding Tulsa name. Most–but not all–street signs in Broken Arrow show both names. For the purpose of these directions, here are the dual names you need to know:
Tucson Street in BA is also 121st Street South.
Aspen Avenue in BA is also East 145th Avenue.