National Night Out

What happens when you don't go to the neighborhood meeting? You get picked to host the National Night Out neighborhood party! My parents were there and technically they sort of volunteered us but it all worked out fine. I was amazed at the amount of people who came. We had about 70 or more people mostly adults that showed up. I didn't take any group shots because I didn't want people to feel uncomfortable but they were all in our front yard under our shade trees.

Here are some photos of the area where all of the people were gathered. Spencer took these photos a while ago. We have a lot of shade available especially in the evening.




Just try and imagine this area filled with 2 picnic tables, a patio table, 4 card tables and another patio table with food and lots of patio chairs and other lawn chairs. It was packed pretty solidly.

We also had some visitors to our party.



A Minnetonka police officer came and talked for quite a while to the kids. She was available for adult questions too but there didn't appear to be any.

The former owners of our house also joined the party and Kathy works for a different city but her job is to bring McGruff the crime dog around and so she made a special stop to our party too.


It was a fun night- we met lots of our neighbors although without the name tags I have no chance at remembering all of their names.

Did any of you attend a National Night Out Gathering?