MINIacs at Letchworth State Park, 9/27/09!

yellowmininy · Obsessed (Taking the long-cut)

RE: MINIacs at Letchworth State Park, 9/27/09!

PepperMINI · Motorer

Updated as of 9/26/09:

Meeting in Rochester, NY at the Henrietta Lowes at 9:00 a.m.:

Tedscar - Hot dogs and grape pie(s)
PepperMINI - Schutt's donuts and cider; not dogs, hot dog buns, and condiments (and gas grill)
CharlieCroker09 - gluten free cookies and pop
Dumpnrun - Black bean burgers, baked beans (burger buns?)
Grey Poupon - Chili
Trixie & Spd - falafel, tabouleh, hummous, and pita bread
Weinerdog - Pasta salad
JC55MINI
Karen (aka Grammacoop3's friend)
YellowMINI - ketchup, mustard, paper plates, cups, etc.
jimmyd

Meeting in Buffalo, NY (organized by jrbond007):

jrbond007 - peach and apple pie
Tinman - mac salad
BeeArrGee - really yummy tuna salad
VeganBrian
Ashman - chips, dip, sausage, hot dogs, hot dog buns

Other (please feel free to join up with a feeder group, just let us know so that we leave no MINI behind!)

Roosterscoop
Gr8MINI
laurendesigns
grammacoop3 (Carolyn)
kingkong - veggie tray and some other foods

Maybes:

Hombrefeo
Mitch

If you're not listed above, you are still more than welcome to attend! Just give tedscar, myself, or jrbond a heads up so that we can be on the lookout for you. And if you feel like surprising all with a dish to pass, that's great (if you can't think of anything, Mr. Wegman always has some good ideas!).

jimmyd · Motorist

well the weather does not seem to be in favor of a picnick tomorow. I am going to play this one by ear my wife is sick and I don't want to come alone if it is cold and rainy I am going to pass ashamed

tedscar · Motorer

Awwwww, jimmyd, I was going to pick your geocacheing brain. Will miss you tomorrow! Sorry to hear your wife is sick; hope to catch you both next time!

OK, so the weather may not be great, but that's no reason for the rest of us not to party like it's 10 years after 1999! We're still on and hope all of you are too!

Gotta get to bed early so we can get up and go to Rochester so we can cruise by where we are tonight. Explanation at 11--tomorrow!

wienerdog · Member

Still raining at 02:30... See everyone there!!!! smile

-- Edited by wienerdog on Sunday 27th of September 2009 01:20:58 AM

Dumpnrun · Motorer

According to the weather guy the rain is just going to dumpnrun.
seeya at Lowes.CJ

PepperMINI · Motorer

We're still going too! See everyone soon.

yellowmininy · Obsessed (Taking the long-cut)

It looks like lovely weather for a picnic! :)

jimmyd · Motorist

yeah i reeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllly wanted to link up with you all maybe next event we wont be party poopers. As far as geocaching you and i can link up some time separate and talk about it. Ted

jrbond007 · Motorer

Considering this lovely picnic weather, I'm bringing some carafe's of coffee. I will have some Timmy Ho's for the Buffalo crew meet. See ya all there.

Grammacoop3 · Motorist

The odds are stacked against me...after getting already to head out something happened that prevents me from having fun. boohooo. Looks like I'll be spending the day with my other family instead of dancing in the rain.

Next time.

PepperMINI · Motorer

The weather ended up being alright, and we had a great time today! Grey Poupon's family wins the most adorable family of all time award, Cammie was a great pal (as usual), and the scenery was great. I enjoyed meeting some new Club members (BeeArrGee, JC55MINI, Grey Poupon, and forgive me if I missed anyone, and welcome to the MINI family). We have so many left over donuts; it's truly a shame, but I'll make my coworkers happy tomorrow. VeganBrian is the best free entertainment around! Hope to see you all at next year's event....

yellowmininy · Obsessed (Taking the long-cut)

We had a great time! I think the worst of the rain was at the beginning & the end of the day, and it cleared up enough to enjoy how beautiful Letchworth Park is. Thanks to Kim & Jill for putting it together, and to Holly for keeping track of the food! (Safe to say, no one walked away hungry!)

PepperMINI · Motorer

Oh, and Brian wanted me to emphasize how good Grey Poupon's chili was, and how he wouldn't mind receiving the recipe at some point.

jrbond007 · Motorer

Yes, that was good chili. 14 mini's total, I think. Great turn out, despite the weather. Had a great time.
Thanks to everyone.

Rob

Here is a link to my photo's for the facebookers

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=113600&id=716393732&l=c18e7bd951

-- Edited by jrbond007 on Sunday 27th of September 2009 06:30:42 PM

Dumpnrun · Motorer

We just want to thank everyone for the wonderful time today. Heres some pics,Kathleen looks like a happy camper, Youll need three of kind to beat that pair Tom and Brian, Jill is so photogenic and happy.Keep on smiling. Thanks Kim,Jill and Ted for putting it all together.

Untill next time seeya CJ

tedscar · Motorer

Hey everyone--thanks for coming! We had a great time; Letchworth is an amazing place and it was great to see it with all our MINI friends! Ted would have loved all the food and friendship! I will get some pics up shortly but wanted to say we had a blast and are already planning next year's event (as in, let's do it again in a year or so)!

Gc3, we are bummed you didn't make it. Your message is a little cryptic but it doesn't sound good. Hope everything's OK and that we'll see you soon! jimmyd, sorry it didn't work out for you but hopefully there'll be time for one more gathering before the snow flies. Hope your wife is feeling better now.

Next up...the Toy Drive!

-- Edited by tedscar on Monday 28th of September 2009 05:37:23 PM

VeganBrian · Motorer

Im glad all i am is entertainment to you peppermini! hahaha, just kidding. im a trip and i know it. Me and lizz had one of the best times ever and were so happy. Lizz cannot wait to go to the next one. we got some good pics of cars to put up. Ill try to put pictures up in a little bit. And thanks dumpandrun for putting up a picture of me licking my lips hahaha.

PepperMINI · Motorer

VB, you're also a friend and partner in non-meat eating ism. What else would you like to be? I could use a butler...

PepperMINI · Motorer

I got my second star!!! I'm a motorer biggrin

JC55MINI · Member

Had a GREAT time. What a bunch of awesome people!!! I'll do a better job of posting pics, but took forever to get them to facebook.

Check them out here, and I'll update once I get them to a better hosting site.

Thanks so much for a great day!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34266&id=1515079484&l=09589c9e89

VeganBrian · Motorer

Well id rather not be your butler pepper, soooo i guess we can just stay "non-meat eating ism" friends haha. Nice pictures everyone keep em comin! i cant figure out how to post them a simple way. so i might be lazy for a little bit. haha

TINMAN · Motorist

We had a great time. The food was great too. We enjoyed meeting new friends and seeing old ones. Can't wait wait for the next event.

wienerdog · Member

Great time as expected even with less than perfect weather. Nice to meet even more MINI people. Deb will definitly like the family photo thanks to Dumpandrun.
Thanks for planning the event Kim and Holly for the logistics Do you have the list started for who is bringing what for next year?

Grey Poupon · Member

My camp definitely had a good time. It was nice meeting everyone. I'm glad you liked the chili. I usually do the cooking for group events and my ego would like to take full credit, however Carla did the cooking this time and she too thanks you for the kind comments.

My son Gage has been a car enthusiast since he was 3. His third favorite car is the Mini Cooper which influenced my car buying decision somewhat. Needless to say, he had a ball yesterday. We're all looking forward to the next event.

I've got some pics that I'll post up a little later.

-- Edited by Grey Poupon on Monday 28th of September 2009 07:17:51 PM

CharlieCroker09 · Member

Hey all, sorry I had to cut out early! My dad was supposed to bring some stuff up for a speech I had to present today, but got one of the things mixed up so I had to go home, get it, and make it back to Rochester for my 5pm volleyball game. Looks/sounds like the rest of it was fun, though, and the food was good! Had toooo many donuts, though, haha. Those Schutt's were really good!

Looking forward to the next meet, and for next year's picnic (hopefully I'll be able to stay the whole time)!

PepperMINI · Motorer

If the MINI is Gage's third favorite car, what cars rank as 1 and 2?

tedscar · Motorer

JC55MINI wrote:
...but took forever to get them to facebook.

Check them out here, and I'll update once I get them to a better hosting site.

Thanks so much for a great day!

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34266&id=1515079484&l=09589c9e89

Jim, those are a great set of pictures! Glad you and your pod joined us and hope to see you again soon! Grey Poupon and Charlie Croker--good to have you too. Sorry you had to leave early CC, but you know what they say; it really IS hard to get good help these days!

By the way, the way the wind blew here yesterday, we probably picked the right day for the event. We're hoping to go to Letchworth again on 10/10 for what I hear is an amazing art show / sale. I wonder if there'll be any leaves left by that time...

-- Edited by tedscar on Tuesday 29th of September 2009 07:04:58 AM

Grey Poupon · Member

PepperMINI wrote:

If the MINI is Gage's third favorite car, what cars rank as 1 and 2?

1. Almost any year Mustang
2. C5 & C6 Corvettes

BTW- Thanks for the comments about my family. I think I'll keep them. Tell Brian we said thanks as well.

-- Edited by Grey Poupon on Tuesday 29th of September 2009 10:09:12 AM

BeeArrGee · Member

I had an awesome time on Sunday! What a fun group of people. It's hard to believe that all we had in common was a car!

I took a ton of pictures and put them on my flickr account:

Scenery

People

The Cars!

-e

Here are some of my favorites: