Jaycee ... my friends who belong to Red Hat, enjoy wearing their hats and going to lunch.
One chapter takes trips several times a year. They seem to be one or two day trips.
Your Red Flower sounds like it worked just fine for the occasion and for you.
We have made a couple of trips...chartered a bus. We went to the Dixie Stampede at Pigeon Forge and it was wonderful. Dolly Pardon owns that. You watch the show and have dinner at the same time. All food is eaten with your fingers. We had a Rock Cornish Hen, potatoes, and I can’t remember what all but we ate it all with our fingers.
We also visited the Biltmore Mansion in Asheville and had a real nice lunch there. Toured that Mansion and it was huge. It was a fun thing. We visited a Russell Stove candy place and of course none of us bought candy...ha.ha. I bought a lot to bring home!