Simple inexpensive White Elephant exchange -- either re-gift something, or purchase new.  It can be ANYTHING -- bike related or not, and let's say a recommended $15-$20 max.  Or, if you want to wrap up a carbon-fiber Musashi and a couple of lottery tickets, GO FOR IT!    
 
We'll draw numbers, and do the "Mean Santa" thing, where you have the choice of stealing a prior opened gift, or picking something from the pile.  The second "steal" of a gift locks it down.

Quote from rmillay on Dec 12^th, 2013, 6:00pm:

 
 
Bob, do you have a "ridewithgps" or other map for both routes?  Can you post them here?
 
The 15-miler will be for the "slower group", which will have at least two ~10mph trike riders in it, Vilma Peguero and Emily Penn.  Terrie and I will volunteer to lead this group, since we'll be on the Margarita Machine.

Bob,
Send me your cue sheet and i will draw the route in Map Source.
John

John, I sent you a sort-of cue sheet.

I'll be there.

So, I go shopping for a present for tomorrow's a.m. extravaganza.  I could have gone straight to PC&F, but wanted to go to Performance first, since it was that much closer from McKinney.  I picked out something, brought it to the desk, and the guy said, "You know, there's a 15% discount on everything in the store...except bikes."  I told him I only ride recumbents.  He said he would ride them eventually, when he's too old for uprights.  (Easy, Key, keep cool.  Just buy and leave).  
"You only say that because you have no experience with them."  I decided to overlook the comment, and look at clothing.
"Oh no, no, I know someone who is a "recumbie"".  He produces contact info of a bent bike rider he says lives in McKinney, whom I have never seen.  "I know that some have one wheel in the front, and others, one wheel in the back.  
Me: "I ride tadpoles, with the two in the front."
"Whoa!  You take your life in your hands even more than I do!"
I told him that he keeps making judgments based on lack of knowledge. that if he were really curious, he would ask, and not be pejorative.  When he told me that he was starting to feel hurt that I was upset with his innocent comments, I left.      
Just as well, when PC&F heard the story, they gave me an upgrade of the article I WAS going to get for the same price.  It was worth the grief.  

Excellent turnout, good food, good gift swap, and good riding!!!  Thanks to all who participated, and to Bob and John for getting the routes and maps put together!!!!  I'll post pics later today....