Irrigation Festival Show 'n Shine

5/14/2016

The Strait Air Volksgrüppe participated in the Irrigation Festival Cruzz and Show 'n Shine on Saturday May 14th. All participants met up at Evergreen Collision to stage for the parade route. Lots of cars there.....over 60 of them! We cruised the parade route, smiling and waving at people, and each one of us stopped to be "interviewed" by the parade announcer. The Show 'n Shine was at the Wal-Mart parking lot and even more cars were there who didn't participate in the parade. To keep things exciting, Theresa's Bug died just as she pulled in to her show spot! Luckily, all it needed was a new battery, so what better place to break down but the Wal-Mart parking lot! The show started with pleasant temperatures and partly cloudy skies.....then, around 2 pm, things took a turn! A very light sprinkle turned into a cold steady downpour and we finally had to break out the umbrellas. We figured since we'd stuck it out as long as we had, that we should stay for the awards at 3:30. So we sat in the rain and waited. After they got done announcing the raffle prizes, they announced that they were packing it all up and the awards would not be presented! They told us to check the website later to find out the winners. Kind of a bummer deal if you ask me. But good news! Dave's bus won the Best VW award! Trophy coming later.....I hope!

Here we all are parked in our designated area except for that blue Bel-Air in between my Bug and Matt's. The funny thing is, we never saw the owner of the car or anyone come by to check on it. It was kinda harshing our VW vibe, man.

Here's my Bug (Annie), all squeaky clean and fresh out of Denny's shop.

Dave's prize-hauling bus! Pretty soon he's not gonna have any more room for the trophies he's winning! Fun fact: When it started raining, Dave didn't want to lower his awnings because he said they'd get wet. Apparently they're only shade awnings. ; ) ha ha!