Wow, Model T’s of every size and shape, on every street in town, parked under every shade tree at the fairgrounds, boggles the mind.
We registered today and got oriented a little bit. Today was our first tour, a fairly short one around the town of Richmond, and to a couple historical places. Part of the tour was on a bicycle path that they opened up for the T’s. While we were eating lunch, it started to blow and got dark, so we got out our ponchos and made a dash for the fairgrounds. It rained for about two minutes and then was gone, fortunately we were just on the edge of the thunderstorm as it passed by. At the fairgrounds, they were not so lucky, blew away some canopies and one branch from a tree fell on a primo town car, ouch!!!
In the afternoon, we had a practice session for the take apart car. We waited and we waited and we waited, cause we were supposed to put it together, and it was not apart. Finally contacted the chief honcho for the car, and he said we could take it apart. So we dismantled the car, and then we put it back together again. Took us 41 minutes to put it together. I think it actually took us longer to take it apart. We have our own cheering section, one of the pictures above. I can’t figure out how to caption them.
It is warm and humid, they tell us it is not as hot as normal, whoo boy, takes a lot of water to keep this group from just wilting like daisies.
The welcome party was in the evening, over 2000 people in a really large building. We about starved before our turn came at the food line. One of the speakers was Edsel Ford the 2nd or 3rd.
We registered today and got oriented a little bit. Today was our first tour, a fairly short one around the town of Richmond, and to a couple historical places. Part of the tour was on a bicycle path that they opened up for the T’s. While we were eating lunch, it started to blow and got dark, so we got out our ponchos and made a dash for the fairgrounds. It rained for about two minutes and then was gone, fortunately we were just on the edge of the thunderstorm as it passed by. At the fairgrounds, they were not so lucky, blew away some canopies and one branch from a tree fell on a primo town car, ouch!!!
In the afternoon, we had a practice session for the take apart car. We waited and we waited and we waited, cause we were supposed to put it together, and it was not apart. Finally contacted the chief honcho for the car, and he said we could take it apart. So we dismantled the car, and then we put it back together again. Took us 41 minutes to put it together. I think it actually took us longer to take it apart. We have our own cheering section, one of the pictures above. I can’t figure out how to caption them.
It is warm and humid, they tell us it is not as hot as normal, whoo boy, takes a lot of water to keep this group from just wilting like daisies.
The welcome party was in the evening, over 2000 people in a really large building. We about starved before our turn came at the food line. One of the speakers was Edsel Ford the 2nd or 3rd.
4 comments:
You're just about the cutest cheering section I ever did see! Go BobBob and friends!
The tour looks so pretty through the woods.
Hope today is another great day! Love you friends. xoxo
If the food lines are unbearable, remember you're probably not TOO far from the Hormel Spam Factory. A neat tour, probably air conditioned, it would smell good warming on the manifold, and you can stock up on a few cans for the trip home! Just a suggestion.
Say "Hi" to all the gang.
-Bob and Mary B.
If the food lines are unbearable, remember you're probably not TOO far from the Hormel Spam Factory. A neat tour, probably air conditioned, it would smell good warming on the manifold, and you can stock up on a few cans for the trip home! Just a suggestion.
Say "Hi" to all the gang.
-Bob and Mary B.
Those chicks in the Peanut gallery are pretty cute.Looks like the guys did a good job. It sounds like there was a cattle feed(John would be gone).The weather sounds a little scary with all those open cars there. All those old cars and all those OLD people WOW..Have a great day. Say HI to all our SCVC family..........
Bob & Shirley
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