Friday, June 14, 2013

The Great Mall Parking Lot Rally



Friday June 14. Yesterday we awoke to rain once again, it was a light to medium rain but we ran in it the entire 45 mile trip up to Syracuse. We met our friends as planned and traveled to the rally site together. One lone policeman stood outside the entrance and redirected everyone to a nearby shopping mall. They’re not letting anyone else in the fairgrounds as it was all underwater, he said.

Late in the afternoon we were informed that we would be parked here for the duration of the Rally and Shuttled to the fairgrounds in buses. Camping on an asphalt parking lot is not the friendly RV camping atmosphere we were looking forward to, but we’re making the best of it. Heck it’s far more likely we’ll be buying new shoes at the mall than a new RV at the Rally anyhow!



We registered at the fairgrounds on Friday morning and looked at a few of the many new RV’s on display outside  then walked all through the vendor building finally finding the salesman who had my ceiling fan part. The distributor very kindly had shipped the part to the show for me. I also made arrangements to have my auxiliary towing braking unit serviced tomorrow. 

In the afternoon our friends Clay and Rebecca along with 1400 other couples renewed their wedding vows in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record. As the ink is hardly dry on Millie and my wedding license we stayed back at the motorhome and took a nap. Really, we took a nap!



We finished off the day at a concert by the one time headliner from Las Vegas, Wayne Newton. He still puts on a good show but to be brutally honest, his singing voice is not what it once was, and at times it was painful to watch.

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