IT’S OFFICIAL: THE HOLIDAY SEASON HAS BEGUN!

COLBAR HAS A RESERVATION FOR THE YEAR END – CHRISTMAS – AND QUANZA HOLIDAY BASH, FOR 7:00 P.M. ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011. THE YEAR-END DINNER WILL BE CELEBRATED IN THAT MOST TRADITIONAL OF ALL COLOMBIAN VENUES: JOHN MARTIN’S IRISH PUB & RESTAURANT, LOCATED AT 253 MIRACLE MILE, CORAL GABLES, FL 33134.

WE WILL BE ORDERING “A LA CART” (explanation to all Scrooges: no one else will be subsidizing your sophisticated palate).

CONTINUING WITH OUR MESSAGE, WITH PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO TO BE TAKEN BY THOSE SCROOGES OUT THERE: WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE THE TRADITION OF REQUESTING THAT YOU BRING A GIFT (SUGGESTED RETAIL VALUE: BETWEEN $10.00 AND $15.00) FOR A CHILD OF UP TO 14 YEARS OF AGE. WE WOULD ALSO REQUEST THAT THE GIFT BE BROUGHT UNWRAPPED, SO THAT THE APPROXIMATE AGE AND GENDER OF THE PROSPECTIVE DONNEE MAY BE EASILY DETERMINED. ALL GIFTS WILL BE DONATED TO THE MIAMI RESCUE MISSION.

JUDGING FROM PRIOR YEARS’ EXPERIENCES, A GOOD TIME SHOULD BE HAD BY ALL AND WILL LEAVE EVERYONE IN A FAIRLY APPROPRIATE CONDITION TO RETURN TO WORK THE NEXT DAY. EXTRA EARLY, TO PARAPHRASE DICKENS.

SINCE WE NEED TO ADVISE THE MANAGEMENT AT JOHN MARTIN’S OF THE APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF PERSONS WHO WILL BE ATTENDING (SO THAT THEY CAN ASSIGN US AN APPROPRIATE ROOM) WE WOULD APPRECIATE YOUR CONFIRMING THAT YOU WILL BE JOINING US AND LETTING US KNOW HOW MANY PERSONS WILL BE COMING WITH YOU.

HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL – AND TO THOSE WHO CANNOT MAKE IT, WE WOULD LIKE TO WISH YOU A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS HOLIDAY SEASON AND NEW YEAR.