TESTIMONIALS

Sept. 20, 2009

To whom it may concern,

Please cancel my membership with Highlife Adventures do to getting married last week to another member Sharon W!

Sincerely,

Nick S.

Sept. 15, 2009

Please cancel my Highlife Adventures membership as I am now married to someone I met at Highlife.  Please call me with any questions.

Thank You, Sharon

To whom it may concern,

I recently go married to someone I met at Highlife so I have to cancel my membership.

Thanks,

John W.

08/04/09

This letter is to notify Highlife Adventures of my intention to terminate my membership effective August 31st, 2009.  I'd like to thank Highlife for providing me with a lot of fun experiences over the last year and the chance to meet many interesting and cool people.  It was what I was looking for.  However, a new job and a new relationship will keep me occupied with other endeavors.  Thank You.

Regards,

Ray A.

July 7, 2009

Hi Laura!

Is there a Highlife group near Orlando/Sarasota/Tampa area?  I'm moving to Sarasota in about three weeks and would love to have the same great experiences in Florida.

And I've had an awesome time in the past two years - you are a great event leader and always made everyone feel welcome.  Thanks for that!

Joining Highlife was the best decision I made when I move here.

Thanks!

Becky

July 8, 2009

Thank you, Logan.  I will definitely count my Highlife Adventures experience as a highlight of my 3 years in Chicago.  I met my 2 best girlfriends in the city through HLA events.  Priceless :)

Best to all of you as well!

Teresa

July 6, 2009

Logan,

This is just my written cancellation of my highlife membership.  I wanted to say the time I've spent in highlife was fun.  As a matter of fact I met the love of my life through Highlife.

Marcus

May 21, 2009

Hi Logan, 

My name is Debra G and after about 6 years in highlife, I need to cancel my membership.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I would recommend the club to anyone!  I had a terrific time at every event and met some very nice, fun people!!  Good luck in the club's future!

Best Regards,

Debra

April 7, 2009

To whom it may concern:

Please consider this my 30 day notice to cancel my membership.  I have had a really great time: chocolate tasting, archery, ghost investigating...however, I have found a wonderful man and have run out of time with which to enjoy your activities.

My best regards,

Michele D.

March 11, 2009

Hi! I need to cancel my month to month membership.  Thank you!  I have made some amazing life long friends!

Lati

16 January 2009

Highlife Folks,

I'm writing to let you know that I will no longer by a Highlife member.  I'm sad to leave the group, but it's high time.  My very first event, watching game 4 of the 2006 World Series at Union Tavern, I met the man of my dreams.  We've been dating every since and getting more and more serious.

I should have let my membership go some time ago, singe I haven't been really and truly single ever since that event!  On the other hand, when I look at the girlfriends with whom I spend my time and have developed close friendships here in Chicago, I met the majority of them at Highlife, so I haven't been eager to quit.

So thanks to all of you - I've probably seen Laura the most, and she and all of you I've met at Highlife have been wonderful.  I recommend the group to everyone I meet and will continue to do so!

Rachelle

1-11-09

Dear Highlife Adventures,

I am writing to express my gratitude of being a member of Highlife Adventures.  Throughout my membership, I have met a number of amazing people and have been fortunate to try new experiences that I never would have imagined.

I must however discontinue my membership as I am getting married.  If it weren't for highlife Adventures, I would have never met my fiance.

Thank you for enabling us to start a new adventure!

Thank you for everything,

Brian G.

1-11-09

Highlife adventures,

I am writing to cancel my  membership.  I'm happy to report I am getting married to someone I met through your club.  Thank you for everything.  I would highly recommend Highlife.

Jami R.

Jan 11, 2009

Dear people of Highlife,

At a bar night on a snowy mid-march evening, the event organizer introduced me to the first guy we saw. We chatted a bit and then I went off to talk to some ladies who were there; it was my second event with Highlife and I wanted to meet lots of new people.  As the night came to a close, that first young man came over and invited me to go with a group to a place down the block.  I went along, but we quickly lost the others in the falling snow and ducked into a wine bar, where we stayed for hours getting to know each other.  I gave him my card and he put me in a cab, and called exactly three days later.  Almost three years and one interstate move have gone by, ad here we are!  Thank you for the introduction.

Emily K and Andrew P.

12/21/08

Hi Logan,

This email is to notify you of my wish to terminate my Highlife membership.

I just got engaged over the Thanksgiving holiday to a wonderful man I met through Highlife!

Please let me know if you need any additional information.

Thanks, 

Rebecca S.

10-27-08

Hi Karen,

I wanted to drop you a line, I saw you last night at the Dueling Pianos, but never got a chance to say hello.  I think you must have left by the time I made my way over to your side of the room.  Thank you so much for encouraging me to join Highlife.  I admit that I was very skeptical in the beginning.

Although I'm not crazy about the commutes, I do like Chicago's amenities and I am overwhelmed by the friendly people this group has drawn- dueling pianos was by far my favorite event to date!  I like canoeing, but prefer more rowing to bargeing - I know better for next time (- I've also realized that I have to tone down on events during the week, but again, every event I've gone to, I have met at least 2-3 people who I enjoy doing things with and hope to see again!

Thanks again - I forgot how important it is for me to get out and see new things to be happy!

Judy B.

Oct.7, 2008

I would like to cancel my membership because I am getting married!!!

We both met at a Highlife Adventures event over two years ago and have been together ever since.  On our 2^nd year anniversary (September 2^nd) Mike asked me to marry him and of course I accepted.

We are both very thankful that Highlife Adventures exists.  If it were not for your organization, we would have never met.  We thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

It has been great being part of this group…and I would like to thank all the event leaders.  They are pretty amazing people.

Again, please cancel my membership…I am no longer single (yay!)

Sincerely,

Christina

July 8, 2008

Hi Logan,

Due to the fact that I met my future wife at a Highlife event, I no longer qualify for membership and would like to cancel.

Anne and I will be getting married next month.  Thank you so much for introducing us!

Regards,

Rod

May 12, 2008

Logan,

Attached is our marriage certificate. 

We met at a wine tasting on April 2007 (The winery was Valentino Vineyards.)  The wine tasting started at 12noon and as tradition has it with HLA, a smaller group of us went out afterwards for lunch.  Well then a smaller group of us didn’t want the fun to end, so we went to another wine tasting.  And we grew hungry again, so we went to dinner!

We decided to fall in love that day.  We got engaged on the 3-month anniversary of the day we met and we married on the 1-year anniversary of the day we met.

I was only in HLA for about 3 months when I met Jason and although it was only a short time, it was a very busy and fun 3 months.  I recommend it to any person who is single and wants to get out and meet people!

Brandy

Oct 27, 2008

To whom it may concern:

This is Craig, a member of the Indianapolis Highlife group.  When I believe a job is being well-done and I believe that somebody deserves recognition, I always try to make sure that it’s know about.

I wanted to let you guys know what a blast I’ve had since joining Highlife.  I honestly believed that when I first signed up, that I was going to be signing up with a group of losers that were too shy or dorky to make friends of their own.  But I have to admit, I have been nothing but TOTALLY surprised at the quality of people that I’ve met through Highlife.  I have met many professional and fun people, and have even begun to regularly hang out with them lately.

And I have really enjoyed the Highlife events that I have attended also.  There are always so many different events to choose from; from art to sports to having a cocktail in a really cool and unexplored nightclub or lounge that I would have never experienced on my own.

And the staff that you have does such an excellent job at all the planning and running of the events.  Chris and his crew really excel at making this the funnest club/group I have ever belonged to.  I have to admit; I have had more fun in my mid 30’s with Highlife than I have at any other time of my life, event including college.  I have a social life that my regular friends (who are too cheap to join) are insanely jealous of.

Thanks,

Craig

March 18, 2008

Logan,

Attached are 3 pictures from the wedding.

As far as the story of Stacy and my meeting it goes as follows; (from my point of view).

It was Oct 28^th, 2005.  I was attending my 4^th Highlife event at Haunted Trails.  This was Stacy’s 5^th event I believe.  We had never met before.  The big group at the Haunted Trails got broken up into several smaller groups, with Stacy and I being in the same one composed of about 8 people.  We all decided we wanted to do the Haunted House first, though Stacy did not as she is very scared of them.  S we entered the Haunted House, she decided I was the biggest person present in the group, hid behind me, grabbing both of my hands and pulling them behind me to hold on to.  I led the group in, Stacy tightly attached and we went into the Haunted House.  She kept her death grip on my hands the entire time, though it was not very scary to most of us, she still found it quite frightening.  The only time I could get her to release one hand was going down a spiral staircase, as it was just not possible for me to keep moving.  Being first, I would often see the people hiding, ready to leap out and I would motion them to wait and jump out at Stacy instead of me. (A fact I did not reveal to her until we had been dating for several months.  After the haunted house and my release, our group continued onto the mini-golf, go-carts and the arcade.  After the event ended, 5 of us who were in the same group decided to head over to a nearby restaurant /bar and grab some food.  We stayed for a while talking and eating, and I found out they were all planning on attending the Highlife Halloween party the next night.  I had not planned on going, but they convinced me to try and come.  The next day I was trying to find a costume and almost gave up, deciding not to go when I finally found a costume to wear.  I showed up at the party at the time we all agreed to meet, but of course Stacy and the other 2 girls she was coming with were a bit late.  The night progressed and eventually I asked her out on a date for the following week, to which she agreed.

Our first date, Nov 5^th, went very well with a strong connection between the two of us.  I was quite smitten.  Soon weeks came and went, and she traveled back to Maryland with me for Christmas with my family.  By the end of winter we both knew that we would be staying together, though we didn’t want to rush things too much.  We got engaged on Oct. 5^th, 11 months after our first date and married on July 27^th, 2007.  We bought a house together December of 2007 and things are going very well.  We both love to travel (been to: St. Lucia, Cancun, Antigua, Las Vegas, Maryland, Skiing in Park City, Lake Tahoe and many local trips) and plan to go on many more trips in the future.  We scuba dive, ski and do many other activities together!!

Thanks so much,

Sean

March 27, 2008

To whom it may concern,

Please consider this as my formal letter to terminate my membership.  I met the love of my life, have made some great friends and I truly have learned a lot about people!

Good luck,

Julie

April 17, 2008

Hi,

We just wanted to say thank you!  I just got engaged this past Saturday (4/12). We actually met through Highlife Adventures!  We met back in September of 2006 at an Ice Breaker at Finn McCool’s.  It was my first event and his second event!  We hit it off and have been together ever since, and now we’ll be getting married! (No dates set as of yet).

So-I just wanted to let you know of our “success’ story – that Highlife Adventures really does work to find the love of your life!  It’s a wonderful concept and I tell everyone I know about it and that I met my now fiancé at my first event!

Thanks so much!  Tiffany & Andy!

Feb 18, 2008

Hi Mary!

  I just wanted to say “thanks!”  You are an absolute genius for creating Highlife Adventures, and I am soooo glad I joined.  Although I have only been a member now for three weeks and have attended only two official events (plus a few off shoot events) it has totally changed my life…already…really!  I consider myself a high energy person, love to go out and have fun…but I’m not from Indianapolis~ where I am currently living~ and since my divorce five years ago haven’t found the ideal way to meet people with whom I shared common interests.  It’s been a five-year serial dating cycle for me with no life between boyfriends and no end in sight.  However…I think Highlife has finally broken the cycle!  The line up of adventures far exceeds the line up of datable single men at least 10 to 1!  And just looking at the choices of events feels like being back at summer camp to me.  On top of that, and best of all, I can honestly say that Highlife Adventures is comprised of the most amazingly open, outgoing, inclusive group of high energy, intelligent, thoughtful, fun, profession, not your everyday-kind-of-people-in-a-good-way I have every met.  I could barely believe that during my very first event I was actually invited to join a small group for an après event…get together…and I’ve been made to feel included ever since.  These people really get it: life’s too short to not live-it-up while you can…so they just skip the ‘crap’ and get right out on the skinny branches where the fruit it!  I can hardly believe that at 48 I pulled an all-nighter (just this past Saturday night), danced until 3:00am, went out for a “midnight snack” and got home at 5:00 am.  I haven’t had that much fun combined in the 17 years of marriage!  I raised children for 20 years…and my last all-nighter was spent sitting in a rocking chair with my fourth colicky baby singing James Taylor “lullabies” over and over…so this was a big step up for me!  The hardest part of Highlife for me is realizing that I can’t…yet, sing along with the songs that are now playing on the dance floor, which used to be a favorite part time for me back in college (as the songs that were played last time I danced are now considered “oldies”).  Watch out Highlifers when it’s Oldies Dance Night!  I will out-sing the entire dance floor!!!

I may hold my own special Highlife “Learn the Words” off shoot event for those of us who haven’t danced or heard current music for the last 20 years.  So, who says this 48 year-old can’t live the Highlife?  OK…I’ve been holding out: here’s the coolest part of all: I’m dancing (not singing) away Saturday night on the dance floor, and this great guy ~ and one of the original Highlifers~ comes up to me and says, “Y’know…YOU are the epitome of what a Highlife Adventures person truly is!”  I can’t remember receiving a nicer compliment in my entire life…or at least in the past two decades!  Thanks Mary!

Robin

June 28, 2006

Well, it is time.  We need to terminate our Highlife memberships as of July 31, 2006.  We are getting married on August 4^th.  On that fateful day at the Drive-In late June of 2003, we met for the first time.   We saw each other again at a Social in July.  Then in August we exchanged information after an afternoon of canoeing and an evening of Pub Crawling.  A few months later we began dating.  After dating a little over two years, we got engaged.  And now we are a little over a month away from the Big Day.

Through the three plus years we have each been members, we have many fond memories of events both together and separate.  Some of Selena’s favorites were: Rock Climbing, Trapeze class, Volleyball, Sky Diving, Cubs Rooftop Games, Snow Tubing, a number of dinners, and the Pub Crawls and Socials.  Tome most enjoyed: Canoe Trips, Biking events, the Drive-In, Lake Michigan Cruises, the Holiday Parties, Cubs Rooftop Games, and of course, the Socials and Pub Crawls.

We have been lucky enough to make a lot of friends along the way too.  Three of our Bridesmaids and one of our ushers were met through Highlife.  And a handful from our guest list were also Highlife members at some point.  So, thank you for the last three years.  We wish you the best of luck in the years to come.

Sincerely,

Thomas and Selena

May 18, 2006

Dear Membership Director:

I have been a pleased member for about a year now.  Highlife came along at the perfect time for me.  I had seen the end of a long-term relationship and was very much in a dark period.  The social connections of the club helped speed the healing and get my bearings again.  Thank you sincerely.  I am entering an exciting stage in my life now.  Soon I will wrap up my degree, move out West and begin serving as a Social Worker.  I believe my one-year membership in Highlife is coming to a close.  Though I do not wish to recommit to another term in Chicago, depending where I land, I will surely hook-up with one of your affiliates.

Best wishes,

Alec J.

April 5, 2006

Dear Laura,

Please cancel my membership to Highlife.  I am currently on a month-to-month plan so please advise my last day available for an event.

It makes me a little anxious to quite, as it was my vehicle that got me out socially after a 3 year sabbatical from life as a result of a bad breakup.  Funny, I really was just going for the events and during my third event (a wine tasting at Cyrano’s), I managed to meet quite a wonderful man whom I never would have met otherwise.

We’ve been going out for a little over two years now.  I don’t seem to be going to events anymore (although having the membership is a nice security blanket), so I think it’s time to say my goodbyes.

Thanks so much for the great times. 

It was worth every single cent.

Best regards,

Melissa

May 3, 2006

Dear Laura,

Due to an overseas transfer, I have to cancel my membership by the end of May 2006.

I would like to take the opportunity to thank Highlife for the great time I had whenever I participated at one of their activities.  I went to places I would not have gone and certainly took part in activities that I would have never tried if I did not have the opportunity through Highlife.  Thanks a million for all your efforts and for being there!  All the best to you.

With kind regards,

Margrit

May 15, 2006

To Whom it may concern,

Pleas cancel our accounts as of 5/26/06.  Christopher and myself Abigail are getting married on that date and will no longer be eligible members in Highlife Adventures.

Chris and I met at a Highlife Event in early February 2004.  We met at 94^th Aero Squadron at Palwaukee Airport in the middle of a blinding snowstorm.

Thanks so much for the “introduction”.

Sincerely,

Abby and Chris

July 21, 2007

Laura,

I want to thank Highlife and all the staff for a great company that truly offers quality services for its members.  Barbara is also a Highlifer whom I met through a mutual “Highlifer” friend.  She introduced us March of ’06.  We moved in together in October of ’06 and are planning on getting married next year.  Thank you again for the great experiences offered through Highlife Adventures.

Oscar

May 7, 2002

This letter is to inform Highlife Adventures to cancel my membership.  The good news is that I’m quitting becausxe I will be married on August 4, 2002 to a wonderful woman I met through the club.  I count my time with Highlife Adventures as very important and valuable.  Not only did I fall in love with the woman of my dreams but I made several good friends as well.  I cannot place a value on these people or friendships.

Doug

May 27, 2002

WE GOT MARRIED!

Just wanted to let you know that Highlife members Christopher and Brooke were married April 13^th!  We met nine months ago at a social event at bar Chicago.  Chris came for a beer but he got a babe instead!

Brooke and Chris