Come to the May HMMS meeting at Varsity Grill in Waller, TX. They are opening up just for us! We’ll likely have the whole place to ourselves. This month the election results will be announced, and the traditional transfer of the club banner will be made to the new President!

Since the roads are so good in this area, Bob Swank is putting together a short drive for after lunch for those interested!

Varsity Grill
31315 Fm 2920 Rd
Waller, Texas 77484

The April HMMS meeting will be held at Momentum MINI, in the Hodge Podge Cafe, behind the showroom. Please park on the driveway leading up to the MINI showroom, between the BMW and Jaguar lots. Park close to the curb so that other cars can pass.

Momentum MINI
10000 Southwest Freeway
Houston, TX 77074

Momemtum MINI is offering a tour of their Service Area at 10:30 am sharp. If you are interested in the tour, please indicate so by leaving a comment to this post, or on the cooresponding Facebook Event page.

If you are not interested in the Service tour, we’ll meet in the cafe just before 11:30 am for the meeting and lunch.

Thanks to Stuart Mackay for setting up this meeting.

BTW, be thinking of your nominations for officer positions. Nominations can be made during this meeting, and a online vote will occur the last week of April. The new officers will be announced at the May meeting.

This month we’re going to meet at BJ’s at Willowbrook Mall.

7637 FM 1960 West
Houston, TX 77070
281.477.8777

Some of us MINIacs are going to Coffee and Cars before the meeting. The car show runs from 6 in the morning until about 10. Coffee and Cars is an event where owners of classic and exotic cars gather to show them off. Its free and open to  the public. Coffee and Cars will be at Vintage Park: 110 Vintage Park Houston, TX 77070.

There will be an announcement for where HMMS MINIacs going to Cars & Coffee will gather at Vintage Park. We’ll caravan after the car show to BJ’s.

This month we are meeting at the Boys & Girls Country in Hockley. We’ll meet with their Director of Public Relations, George O’Neal, and he’ll give us a tour of the facility. We’ll meet some of the students and show off our cars to them. We’ll also present our donation, and the donation from Iris Beatty’s business.

Boys and Girls Country is located at 18806 Roberts Road, Hockley, Texas 77447.

www.boysandgirlscountry.org

We’ll meet there at 10:00 am. There is a parking lot where we can all park in a line. Bob Swank wants to take a photo of the members with their cars, and give a copy to Boys & Girls Country. We’ll gather inside the building about 10:15 or so, and have our meeting as usual. Bob and Ellen are bringing a continental breakfast. After our meeting, we will present our check to George, and then he’ll give us a tour of the facility. Afterwards we’ll meet some of the kids and show off our cars.

I’ll see you there!

The next club meeting is Saturday, August 4th. Bob Swank has arranged for it to be at:

Napoli’s Restaurant
5035 Highway 6 N # 107
Houston, TX 77084
(Bear Creek area)
(281) 550-1996
www.napolirestaurants.com

We’ll have a party room to ourselves. As we did last month, we’ll meet in the parking lot around 10:00 am, go inside and start the meeting at 10:30, and order off the menu at 11:00.

There has been discussion on our Facebook page about a winery trip this fall; possible a weekend trip. We’ll try to set a date at this meeting.

Looking forward to it!

Our next meeting will on Saturday, May 5th, at the Cafe Express in Sugar Land Town Center. This is at the intersection of Hwy 6 and Hwy 59 (SW Freeway).

15930 City Walk Blvd.
Sugar Land, TX 77479
281.980.9222

As usual, arrive at 10:00 am to meet and greet your fellow MINIacs, and we’ll go inside at 10:30 am for the meeting. Cafe Express has breakfast and lunch item available at this time.

Hopefully the traffic will be light Saturday morning, and we can park in front of the cafe along the main drive through Town Center. If not, there is a free parking garage next to the restaurant.

Town Center is the new city center of Sugar Land, with a new city hall, shops, and restaurants. A neat place to visit.

Change of venue!!

Since Aviator’s Grill will be closed the weekend of Easter, we’ve decided to meet at BJ’s at Willowbrook Mall.

7637 FM 1960 West
Houston, TX 77070
281.477.8777

Some of us MINIacs are going to Coffee and Cars before the meeting. Coffee and Cars is an event where owners of classic and exotic cars gather to show them off. Its free and open to the public. Coffee and Cars will be at Vintage Park: 110 Vintage Park Houston, TX 77070.

In the April meeting, we’ll talk about 2012/13 officer nominiations, and talk about two upcoming events fro April: a bluebonnet drive on the 15th, and the Spring Adopt-a-Beach cleanup on the 28th.

HMMS Agenda Apr 2012

The next HMMS meeting will be on March 3rd, and will be held at Sitar Cuisine of India. James Moheet (jam) has set up this venue for us. We’ll have an area of the restaurant to ourselves, and there is a buffet lunch. The buffet is $11.99 per person. Bring an appetite!

We’ll meet and greet at the parking lot at 10:00 am, go in at 10:30 to start the meeting, and the buffet will be ready at 11:00.

Come out and see us!

Sitar Cuisine Of India
25701 I-45 North
Spring, TX 77380
Tel: 281-364-0200

www.sitarcuisineofindia.net

Directions:

Coming from the south on I-45: Exit Rayford/Sawdust. Make a left on Sawdust (under I-45). Make a right on Borough Park Dr (first light right behind HEB). Make a right on Valley Wood Dr. Just before the feeder road make a left into the driveway of the shopping center. The restaurant is on the other end of the strip center.

Coming from the north on I-45: Exit Rayford/Sawdust. Keep a keen eye to the right. The restaurant is in the strip center just before Valley Wood Dr. You can turn right onto Valley Wood, and quickly turn right into the strip center parking lot.

HMMS Agenda Mar 2012

Our next club meeting will be on Saturday, February 4th. We’re meeting at La Fiesta, near the corner of I-10 and Blalock Road/Echo Lane. Directions are below.

We’ll have a special guest with us this month. Clint Host, proprietor of Gashead Motorworks, will be there to tell us about his shop, and answer any car repair, maintenence or modding question you may have about your MINI. Gashhead is one of our club sponsors (he give us discounts!), and although he specializes in Miata race cars, he has work on several of our member’s cars. Clint has invited us to drive to tour his shop (near the intersection of I-10 West and BW8), so after the meeting we’ll caravan to his shop!

Saturday, February 4th, 10:30 am til noonish

La Fiesta
9427 Katy Freeway
Phone: 713-464-3873

Directions to the restuarant:

La Fiesta is located behind the Office Max Store.  Office Max is very visible from the Katy Freeway.

If you are coming from downtown on the Katy Freeway, exit at the Bunker Hill, go under the overpass as if you were heading  back downtown on the feeder, Office Max will on your right, and La Fiesta is behind Office Max.

If you are coming from the west on the Katy Freeway, exit at the Bunker Hill, continue on the feeder road, Office Max will be on your right, and La Fiesta is behind Office Max.

HMMS Agenda Feb 2012