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Vortex asked for a poll of attendance ... twice. Here goes !!! Time to check in on Marauderville VI (MV6)
MV-VI Latest as of 29 May 08
Hello all in Marauderville, USA from St. Louis.
1. MV-6 will be from Wednesday, 17 September through Sunday, 21 September.
2. Rooms have been held for our group at the [FONT=Times New (W1)][FONT=Times New (W1)]Drury Inn & Suites Westport[/FONT][/FONT][FONT=Times New (W1)][FONT=Times New (W1)].[/FONT][/FONT]
To make reservations, please click on the link below.
https://reservations.druryhotels.com/GroupReservationConfirmation.a spx?GroupNo=2038528
The hotel offers great amenities, such as:
·FREE! HOT! QUIKSTART [FONT=Times New (W1)][FONT=Times New (W1)]® [/FONT][/FONT]Breakfast- Enjoy scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits & gravy, Belgian waffles & more!
·FREE! Evening Beverages and Snacks now served daily from 5:30-7:00pm
·FREE! High-Speed Internet Access in Every Room
·FREE! NEW! Free Long Distance - One Hour Every Room, Every Night!
Please make your reservations by Sunday, August 17, 2008 to receive our group rate. Reservations made after this date will be subject to prevailing rate and availability.
3. If an agreement can be reached for drag racing at Gateway Speedway (hope to know within a week or two), the only day open will be Thursday. The following day (Friday) is the start of the Mopar Monster Weekend. The reason for the delay is pricing. Gateway wants $150 per car. Yo Vic is trying to convince the track management that $75/car is what we need.
4. Thursday is still fluid in determining schedule. A group member suggested that we take a poll giving members a choice between A&B brewery tour, Grants Farm, The Arch & Museum, etc. The more I thought about it tonight, we need to keep logistics of distance, rush hour traffic and bad weather by grouping close proximity events at times/directions of minimal traffic and have backup places not affected by rain (although late September is usually a dry, low-humidity month for STL).
Example:
9:00 a.m., depart hotel for Fast Lane Classic Cars, west on I-70, east on I-370 (all opposite rush hour traffic). (Can be rain or shine)
10:00 a.m., depart for National Museum of Transportation. (Most can be rain or shine)
12:30 p.m., depart for Queeny Park for picnic lunch (4 miles). (If rain, large selection of restaurants in area)
3:00 p.m., depart for hotel
6:00 p.m. depart for dinner at Ameristar (2 miles), 6 restaurants, buffet for $17.99 (rain or shine, valet parking available if you dare!)
or, if 1/4 mile track is secured, leave for track at 2:30 p.m. for those participating.
5. Friday.
9:00 a.m. depart for the St. Louis Zoo in Forest Park. Picnic spot close to Zoo entrance needs to be secured. Zoo is free and one of the best in the world. Marlin Perkins from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom was once a curator there (also born in Missouri). There is a train that makes a refreshing trek around the zoo grounds with about 4 stops. The huge bird cage was built for the 1904 World's Fair. I would imagine some of us would stay at the picnic site watching over things.
1:30 p.m. depart picnic, cruise around Forest Park, site of the 1904 World's Fair and which meets Washington University on its western edge. Forest Park is larger than Central Park.
2:00 p.m. depart for the St. Louis Arch
3:00 p.m. go up to top of Arch (630 feet)
4:30 p.m. set-up for group photo at base of Arch steps (will also need avolunteer to take photo from top of Arch of group below)
6:00 p.m. depart for hotel/dinner at Side Pockets Sports Cafe or Little Hills Winery Restaurant in Old St. Charles.
Saturday:
10:30 a.m. depart for car show (highest probability will be at Sinclair Lincoln-Mercury, St. Peters, 5 minutes from hotel). Yo Vic visited with owner, James Sinclair. He was very interested in helping out (car show, providing close shop service for any members requiring service. There is a large church parking lot next door to the dealership that we were discussing as being the site for the car show. Also discussed using it for burnout/doughnut demos. Mr. Sinclair was excited about the event! I expect to know level of sponsorship within a few weeks.
Will try and get Bandana's BBQ (St. Louis favorite) to bring mobile unit for lunch. Hoping to get TV/radio coverage. With Mr. Sinclair's help, we may get more than that.
1-2 p.m., depart for road cruise enjoying the country side!
4:30 p.m., return to hotel
6:30 p.m. Group dinner and awards ceremony! Drawing of prizes
Sunday:
whenever all awake, breakfast buffet at Ameristar Casino, hand out DVD's edited and copied during the night, and all say their goodbyes!
Remaining Actions:
1. Need Gateway logo approved and posted with MV-6 Announcement, hotels name, reservation phone number, rates, and websites of interest specific to St. Louis so members can plan their trips.
2. Post volunteers needed request for reception Wednesday and Thursday.
3. Need info from members on what has been included in previous welcome bags (trinkets, etc)
4. Need announcement on site to make reservations ASAP. We are under no minimum room contract, so only risk of reserving now is a no show or not canceling by 6:00 p.m. of night of arrival.
5. Need to know status of raffle. John Nolan has taken that action.
6. Yo Vic is going to call the oil companies to donate gas cards (OK, OK, fat chance, but I'm gonna try!)
More specifics coming soon.
Cheers for now,
"Yo Vic"
Vic Baruzzini
