Escapade - before day 1

The 56th Escapade officially begins tomorrow, but there was a lot going on today for us.


We are on the ROW for the Christian Fellowship Birds of a Feather (BOF) group, so setup was at 10am for that. We had the banner and supports stored on the roof of Miss Doozie, so while I was up there getting those items, I took a couple of pictures.

See those red buildings WAY over there on the right... that's where the events are being held...

A look down the line of rigs from us - again, the red buildings are where we're going to be for most of each day. We'll be getting our walking done! 

Our banner set up on the "ROW"

Registration was also going on today - they had it split up alphabetically - for some reason, the "A-D" and "S-Z" lines were always the longest...

Patti is pointing to about where Miss Doozie is parked... Miss Doozie actually may be off the map but up in that area....

We had the practice for the "Parade of Banners" for the Chapters and BOFs that will happen during the opening ceremony on Sunday.

We are ready to march with our banner (and yes, Patti has a mallet in her pocket to try to attach the PVC pipes more solidly together - it seemed to come apart any time we didn't want it to - and not come apart when desired... oh well!)

The SOLOs will be marching in front of us...

And the Boomers will be marching behind us.

On the tables in the "social" area, the table decorations are lighthouses made of two clay pots and a saucer painted white and stacked, and a clear globe and candle for the lighthouse "light" - aren't they cute?