We arrived on Monday, July 20th. The Rally didn't start until Tuesday but getting there early assured us of a camping spot with full hook-ups. And a chance to "chill" for an evening before things started happening.
Good decision. No problem with the parking because there was lots of space. Most of the bikers came on their motorcycles with either a popup trailer tent or plain ol' tent so they didn't need the spots with hook-ups. But the day of rest was appreciated because things really got busy starting Tuesday afternoon.
Each morning and evening there was a service for the adults with a separate service for the teens and another for the pre-teens. The days were filled with seminars and prayer meetings. We didn't make many of those because there were no kid's activities during the day. But there was a beautiful little playground, a cafeteria and a "Goody" store with lots of CMA logo stuff.
Here is Andrew with the CMA KIDS instructor, Larry Sims.
And with Gabe, a new Best Friend.
The "newlyweds" showing off Tom's "biker do".
The week FLEW by and all of a sudden it was Saturday, the last full day of the Rally. We met some great new friends, caught up on the doin's of some old ones.
And at the "Bike Games" on Saturday, Emily was the rider for the WINNING TEAM of the "tennis ball drop." Victoria McGraw was the driver. Here's a video of the winning run.
I am so sorry that I didn't video some of the other entrants. Because Victoria and Emily make this look SO EASY. Trust me, it's NOT! About 15 entries of which 3 had a perfect run the first time. On the second one, our girls were the only one with a perfect run. One of the others dropped a ball off the cone and the other one ran over a cone. Victoria is incredibly smooth at VERY slow speeds and Emily was so gentle in placing the balls on the cones. IF the other drivers got close and slow enough, the dropper put the ball onto the cone with too much force and it bounced off as soon as they let go of it.
The "Winner's Circle" !
Saturday evening 9 of us went to dinner, all in my new truck. Chinese Buffet 'cause I said we weren't all riding home in one vehicle after Mexican.
The infamous 9 minus Carol, who is taking the picture.
The back seat
We attended an early service on Sunday morning and then hooked up and came home to Salem.
Life is good !
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