Monthly Archives: March 2012
Five Guys and Nose Skids . . .
Since parking and registration started at 8 am this morning, Jan and I were up at 7.
Ugh!
After wakeup coffee and muffins, Jan and I headed over to the main hall to get things started. She was selling pizza party tickets, and I would be parking RV’s again.
As it turns out, I really wasn’t that busy. We had maybe twenty more rigs all day, and never more than two at time, so I spent most of my time trying to find a shady spot to stay cool while I was waiting for a walkie-talkie call to come park someone.
About noon Jan and I met up and had some really good hot dogs / polish sausage dogs for lunch from the food truck that is here at the rally. They have a 9 year old daughter named Jessie who’s a great order taker and keeps the line moving.
We wrapped the parking up about 3 pm, and then about 3:30 Nick started off the festivities with the Welcome Get-together in the main hall, which then segued into the Ask the Experts panel that finished up a little after 5 pm.
For dinner, Jan and I, along with Al and Adrienne, and Tom and Barb, all drove over to Five Guys Burger and Fries. They had a really good Bacon Double Cheeseburger that’s hard to beat, and some of the best fries around.
Then at 7 we had our first door prize giveaway, consisting mostly of restaurant coupons so the winners will have time to use them before they leave on Friday.
We finished up about 7:30 and headed back to the rig for the night, just to start again tomorrow.
But at least no more parking.
One another note, Landon had a slight disagreement with his backyard plastic slide, and apparently did a header, complete with skid marks on his nose.
Probably won’t be the last time he does something like this.
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Thought for the Day:
Trust nobody and you’ll never be disappointed.
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Horse Stables and Sea Legs . . .
This morning started out with a move from our site at the horse stables, to first dump our tanks and then park in the staging area for about two hours.
Then about noon once the Good Sam rally had cleared out, we moved our coach over to a site near the main hall where we’ll be parked until the Gypsy Journal Rally ends on Friday.
At 1 pm the fun began when we started parking the sea of RV’s that were waiting out in the main parking lot.
As in past years, it started off slow as the parking crew got their sea legs back, and then ended up with us parking those 100+ rigs in about 3 hours. And then tomorrow morning, starting at 8 am, we’ll do it all over again, just not so many rigs as today.
At 3:30 the rally itself kicks off with the Welcome get-together in the main hall. And then at 7 we’ll have the first of our nightly door prize giveaways.
Finally at about 6, Nick and Terry, Jan and I, and our friend’s Al and Adrienne, headed down to the local IHOP for dinner where Nick got his second wind and regaled us with stories of his infamous past, and in some cases, his present.
Because of our busy schedule, my blog posts probably won’t be quite as long as usual.
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Thought for the Day:
Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. – Old Japanese proverb
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