Hello from Michigan!

**Ripcode** · 21st January 11, 05:50 AM

Thank you all for the kind, warm welcome!

**McFarkus** · 21st January 11, 07:40 AM

from Chicago

**kc8ufv** · 21st January 11, 07:45 AM

Welcome from just a little south.

Originally Posted by Detroitpete

Y E S! Another Michigander!

Do I detect a reference to an old tourism bureau add?

**Luckey** · 21st January 11, 11:18 AM

Welcome from Saginaw!

**Sammac** · 21st January 11, 11:41 AM

Welcome from Belding! By any chance are you going to be at the Burns Dinner in GR on the 29th?

**KiltedDixon** · 21st January 11, 02:22 PM

from Rowlett, Texas.

**Chas** · 21st January 11, 02:52 PM

Hello Ripcode,

Welcome to XMarks from the other side of the Atlantic in Norfolk, England.

Regards

Chas

**Ripcode** · 21st January 11, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by Sammac

Welcome from Belding! By any chance are you going to be at the Burns Dinner in GR on the 29th?

No idea what the "Burns Dinner" is?

**zarathustra** · 21st January 11, 03:39 PM

welcome from Eastpointe, mi.

**Sammac** · 23rd January 11, 10:33 AM

Burns Dinners are a celebration of the life and work of Robert Burns, Scotland's most famous bard. They are held near his birhtday, 25 Jan. The Grand Rapids Scottish Society(GRSS) puts one on every year. This year it is on the 29th. It is a formal affair, more than half the men are kilted. They have a dinner of course, including haggis. Poems and songs by Robert Burns are performed. They have the Grand Rapids pipe band there to play as well. There is Scottish Country Dancing which they invite the crowd to participate in and they show you how, too. If you wish to go, you have to contact the GRSS, tickets are $27.50 and must be purchased in advance.