We had 7 vans plus one visiting van from Wairarapa for this weekend. It was nice to have John & Debbie and and the grandchildren with us even if it was only for one night. We have rallied here three times now and of those three only one was good weather and this was not it.
We were reminded that we live almost in the roaring forties as we had horizontal wind on the Saturday and horizontal rain on the Sunday. Just as well it was Anniversary Weekend and school holidays as Friday and Monday were very good days in comparison to the other two days.
Some of the vans in attendance; note it was warm enough to sit in the sun at least once.
We were very fortunate to have the hall available for us to use, and the rally families made full use of it. We were busy all weekend which took our minds off the weather.
Friday night was mix and mingle.
On the Saturday afternoon the rally family kept us busy with a variety of games. Who would have thought that putting a golf ball over a metal plate or putting a tennis ball through a series of hoops (like “Bobs” for those that know) would be so difficult.
Games in progress.
Saturday night we played card housie, a game we recently learned from the Wairarapa Club.
Our Life Members Peter and Elaine joined us for most of Saturday and also took part in the games. It was good to see you both again. You are both looking very well.
Sunday night we had a quiz identifying the various cockney rhyming slang sayings and unless you had a recent English background or grew up with the sayings this was very difficult. Some of us did very poorly at this. Another quiz that no one got totally correct was to identify two towns that each of the State Highways passed through, (all 10 of them?).This was difficult due to some the highways were in the South Island and are not roads we travel over very regularly. All entertaining stuff.
Morning Tea out of the weather
Thanks to the Rally Families,Geoff & Eileen and Victoria & Albert (Dennis & Glynis – you had to be there to know).
The start of the vans parking on the hard prior to departure
Most of the vans queued up off the wet grass prior to departure as all wished to get off while there was help should it have been necessary.
See you at the next rally which is the combined rally hosted by Wellington, which is being held on Waitangi Weekend at the changed venue of Manchester Street School, Feilding
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