28 May 2024 - Rally Welcome Reception

 

Doreen and I with Curtis Carlson, a dear friend and one of the 

original Alliance leadership team members.

Today was the Owner's Welcome Reception and Rally Check-in.  It was a culmination of a lot of work on the part of a lot of Alliance Owners.  Up to now the Rally attendees have arrived and set up their campers.  Some camped with us at the Elkhart Campground over the last week. Others traveled straight into this location.  Either way, they are here and ready for the Rally which officially starts tomorrow.

 The event today is where the Rally attendees received their welcome bags that were built earlier this week, and they are served a welcome "meal" and refreshments including a hotdog, chips, and miniature apple pie and beverages.  This year one of our Alliance owners, Norma Myers, who works for Pabst Blue Ribbon facilitated a huge donation of the various products under the PBR umbrella, pictured below.  We added sodas, water and Coors Lite, but everything else came from Pabst Blue Ribbon!

So we had an army of Alliance Owners processing everyone in.  A few more pictures:

Besides getting their bags and getting fed, we had an array of outdoor games they could play to win tickets that could be used to win prizes later in the week,  A few more pictures:

The event went fantastic.  It seemed like everyone was having a good time and they seemed to stay around and play the games and socialize with other Allys.  Doreen and I made a few runs back to our camper throughout the day to pottie Libety.  I also came back when MoRryde showed up to install a new handrail which we had ordered and when Lippert arrived to analyze some small issues we are having with our levelers.  One leg has a very small fluid leak and one "droops" after an extended period of retraction.  It sounds like they will be replacing at least two of the jacks sometime this week.

I will likely not publish a blog the next couple days as Doreen and I will be attending various classes and events throughout the day..