Sweet Home Alabama--Day 9

We've been busy getting everything ready to kick off the rally. Spent most of Saturday working on setting up the information/registration building, doing the final paperwork, getting welcome packages put together and many other things that have to be done before we can start a rally. Although we had advised the attendees in advance that our "parking crew" would not be available to assist folks until Sunday many of the coaches were in and in place by Saturday night. We did get the information registration center open for business at noon on Sunday.

Our entertainment for Tuesday night will be Ron & Kay Rivoli of the Rivoli Revue. They arrived late Saturday evening. Ron & Kay are full time RVer's who criss-cross the country performing their music at RV shows, RV rallies and many other venues. They just completed a tour of the United States as a part of the Tea Party Express where they were met by tremendous crowds to hear their message of conservatism. On Sunday afternoon they did a Gospel Music/Worship show for our members. As usual, they did a fantastic job. They do not charge for the Gospel show but do take a "love offering" that is donated to their favorite ministry.

On Sunday evening we had a pot luck supper. We have gotten so used to most of our members coming in days early for our rallies that a couple of years ago we started having the Sunday night pot luck for all the early arrivals. The food was very good and plentiful. This is the first semi-official gathering for us to all get together.

Monday night we had our official welcome session and the official start of the rally. The bar was open and we had light refreshments put together by several of the ladies in the club. Starting tomorrow morning the caterer will take over the food service serving breakfast and dinner for the duration of the rally, Tuesday through Thursday. Here is Jo visiting with our good friend Judy Wagner at the Monday night kickoff session.