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A  few months after the sample collection you receive a beautiful invitation to the TAP dinner party.  Along with it comes an RSVP card that has pre-postage to be sent back and your choice of chicken, fish, or vegetarian dinner.  Lastly, there is a one-way plane ticket to get you to New York City and directions for a shuttle to take you to The Plaza.

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Welcome!  We are so happy to be hosting our 23rd annual dinner event.  

As you come into the Plaza hotel you are directed up an elevator to a ballroom.  Outside of it are a couple of tables holding precisely folded name cards.  After doing some searching you find your card and on it is a table and seat number.  Your first goal may be to immediately find your table and set up base camp.  Or, you can look around the extravagant ballroom filled with gold and blue decorations. Chandeliers hang from the ceiling, there is a good open space on the floor before the stage for dancing, and the stage holds several music stands which indicate the band will be live and likely orchestral.

There is an open bar at both sides of the room to allow the great number of people to order drinks and perhaps socialize even with those, not at their tables.  It is easier to notice some of the shyer people who have attended as they sit at their tables, though the bolder have gone to get a drink.  For now, it is a free for all, people coming and going and doing as they please.  At 4:30 the band arrives and plays a delightful mixture of classical music as well as orchestral versions of modern songs.

At 5:45 an announcement is made.  [color=8882be][i][b]“In fifteen minutes your dinner will be served.  Please be sure to be seated at your appropriate table.  Once 6:00 pm hits our head honcho and CEO will make an announcement.”[/b][/i][/color][/center]