Lone Star Birds Holiday Happening Rally

[mbulriss]

Well, we had 22 Birds and a total of 47 total attendees show up for
the 21st Lone Star Birds Rally. It wore my wife and myself out, but
it sure was fun!

Birds started arriving last Wednesday and the last one out will leave
tomorrow (Tuesday). Two Birds arrived Wednesday, seven more on
Thursday and the rest on Friday. The Friday night cookout was well
attended and the food was great. The weather was most cooperative,
reaching the 80s on Saturday for the turkey frying and holiday feast.
The dessert feast on Saturday evening was outstanding - let's see, I
had chocolate pie, lemon ice box pie, Italian Cream wedding cake and
washed that down with some chocolate covered chocolate cheesecake, --
urp, excuse me. They were all really small slices though. Really....
well, at least compared to the mammoth piece of Italian cream cake
that skinny Marabito consumed! The potluck breakfast on Sunday had
huge amounts of delicious food. Even though we pawned off as much food
as we could on everyone as they left, we are going to be eating
leftovers for a while!

Since we had numerous first time attendees, we had coach tours and Ron
Marabito got pictures of all the attendees in front of their
respective Birds. Hopefully, he will post a collage of the shots soon.

Saturday also provided lots of time for the ample number of repairs
that were needed. Let's just say that a head plumber was needed by
several attendees.

The long distance award was to Kent and Leann Johnson from Montana,
who also happened to win the door prize, which was graciously donated
by Ralph. Kent and Leann are on their way to Baton Rouge as Red Cross
volunteers.

Spaking of Louisiana, the Gureaskos will cross the border one more
time and be the hosts (yeah that's right, the Cajuns! with their
"gotta wear shades" Bird - hosting an LSB Rally. We're getting way
too liberal!) The next LSB Rally will be in February, so mark your
calendars.

Thanks to all the elves that helped out in making this rally a great
one! We really appreciated it and it was great to see everyone.

Glad it's done,
Mike Bulriss
1983 PT40 "Stagecoach" - For Sale - Financing Available
1991 WB40 "Texas Minivan"
San Antonio, TX