I haven't been posting to my blog for a while. Typical excuses. well I want to start it back up because many members across the country look for event blogs
Tim and I set out for the Pismo California event on Tuesday October 1 making it to the Park at around 4pm. Tim set us back with a repair he decided to make on the bus just befor we set sail. We both worked on putting it back together and were on the road within the hour. Tim and I dont have a good history of working on equipment together so I just kept my mouth shut knowing we had a 4 hour ride ahead of us.
Once at Pismo I hit the ground running with Phil helping me round up the first 10 of 52 tables we need for the group. We need to throttle taking tables as we learned in the past because this park stays full and new arrivals pre event are some times regular park visitors. We also need to get the tables off member sites so we will not need to ask if we can use them. gathering all the tables take quite a bit of time. we keep the time to under 6 min per table. 6 x 50 = 300 /60 =5 hours. 10 man hours is an effort but the reward is 300 people breaking bread together.
Here is a pic of Phil. I usually push but we do switch up.
During the start we run into many people blind sided by incoming Homosexuals. We even got a comment "I didn't think they would allow this here". Tim got all worked up but I just told her she may be lucky and find a member who could do something about the grey roots.
For the most part much of the rv park know our group ad we feel welcome.
The management is good to us but they are constant and vigil on trying to get us to schedule the event for an earlier non prime week end. Problem in Pismo is the fog keeps September months too cold and dreary. We already booked and dropped the deposit for 2014 again at the start of October.
Back to set up and being blind sided. Two women staying at the park came up and said they wanted to be part of the party and offered to help. Linda and Mary both firefighters from Northern Reno area.
They were great help with set up and Tim's AR method's worked well with their Firefighter background. here is a pic of Mary with a hose washing tables. It didnt take long and the entire setup was complete.
52 picnic tables, 36 umbrellas , 4 easy ups, 20,000 led lights, 12 fold out banquet tables, table skirts , 4 rainbow umbrellas, and 14 plastic rainbow men (don't ask, I don't get it either). close to being all set up by Wednesday noon. From here on in I didn't take pictures. I will look for some from members and complete this blog article on Pismo. Much more to tell you and many other members to thank for all the help given.