Gentlemen...
wow...what an evening! OK, i'll admit I was a little nervous. Sure, we had conversed and exchanged snipits online...but I was pretty much walking in to spend an evening with many BOTL's completely site unseen! I could only hope it be smooth and friendly, and that I wouldn;t feel like an outsider. Let me just say, I was instantly welcomed, and the other brothers were genuinly as excited to meet me as I was to meet them.
Thank you so much for the introduction to the HERF life, and, quite frankly, for the introduction to the world of cigars over the past 6 months or so! You guys truly are class acts and I am proud to be a part of this board!
To all the brothers who personally and unexpectedly (but EXTREMELY appreciated) bombed me to my face...thank you so much, you guys are too kind!. A very special thanks go out to Erich (EHDG) for going above and beyond to help out a newbie. Geoffrie...thanks for making sure I got to where I needed to go. Everyone else...thank you all so much, this post would be an entire page long if I listed everything everyone did for me. The smokes are gorgeous, the conversation was great, and it;s great to finally have some faces and experience to put behind the handles.
I can;t thank everyone enough! It was an awesome time...can;t wait to do it again. Now that I've got my feet wet...hopefully I'll have more to *contribute* at the next herf!
Here's to the BOTL!