TGGRRR (Ali)

That was one of the best MTTBs yet. We look to have raised about $2500 For those that didn't hear the one bad thing was that one of our members was T-Boned getting to the mall. A guy made an illegal U-Turn from the wrong lane and hit Roxie. Luckily Roedell wasn't injured and Roxie can be fixed. I want to thank everyone that helped to make this event happen. While you may have seen my name all over the place this was a team effort. Alex, Rey, Laura and Hilary all worked together to make the registration and raffle go smoothly. Our vendors came through with awesome prizes. Greg ran that parking lot perfectly. The Run leaders kept us all on track. I had to charm the mall cops yet another year as they tried to strong arm us. I know I'm forgetting people and if I did, I'm sorry. Looking forward to next year!!! #MTTB9 2017

One last reminder we can't take credit cards on sight so bring cash or checks. Checks will be made out to Operation Second Chance Please don't make them out to the club

Pre-donations are at $800!!!!

Given enough poster board we can do most anything

My 2006 is at around 113k but he's now my second car. He's been pretty solid though without a lot of issues.

We've had some extra generous donations!!! Thank you The raffle fairy is taking good care of you

I have a few sewing machines you can use if you want to play over here. I also have a serger What are you dressing your MINI up as? If you don't have any ideas I was thinking a Hot Wheel would be cool

Restaurant is confirmed and excited to have us back.

Elf hats would be awesome but it's hard to tell how many we need

This should work for creating fog from the choo choo train https://www.amazon.com/Smoke-Pencil-Smo-1365-Wizard-Stick/dp/B000FIN0V8/ref=sr_1_cc_5?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1478044655&sr=1-5-catcorr&keywords=small+fog+machine

Unless more newbies sign up I'll drive my Countryman and am making her a Choo Choo train

We don't have a budget to provide self costumes so just do the best you can

Sunday 11/27, 2016 Bring your ideas and supplies and whatever you need to make the parts of your costume for the Manassas Christmas parade start time 1:00 End time 4:00 (it will get dark early) Address 7505 Essex Ave Springfield, VA 22150 We're turning our MINIs into toys!!! Dressing ourselves as elves

Dry ice might be dangerous in the small vehicle. I'm not in the mood to suffocate in front of the children. I might swing for a small battery operated fog machine that I've been eyeing on Amazon, it's on sale and I love making fog I think foamboard is fairly reasonable at Michael's there's one near my house. We should buy them all before we show up to my house though to save time. I'll set up the event on the calendar.

Thanks Chris Yes the 27th. That's when family will be leaving so we can do something. My thought is we gather to create the pieces that we'll need for the parade. As usual we'll assemble at the parade. I'm thinking for River to be a train I'll need some sort of way to do something to her wheels and also make a smoke stack. It would be cool if I could rig the smoke machine to send smoke through the stack but I don't know if the car can generate enough power to run the smoke machine. We'll have to test it Chris - How will you do the truck?

I put out a call to the Cosplay group for elves. It would be great if we get some of them to help by walking. Everyone get your elf costumes

We need to gather and plan. I'm thinking the Sunday before the parade which is the Sunday after Thanksgiving. Does this work for people? We can meet at my house in Springfield if no one else can host. Think about what kind of toy your MINI will be and post it here. We need to figure out the logistics and supplies If I drive River then she's going to be a train. Wizzer are you doing the batmobile? Please post here so we can start planning and give your feedback in regards to the meeting on the 26th We also have to plan handouts for the crowd

Pre-donations are at $540 If you donate early you save time and get more raffle tickets http://dcmetrominis.org/mttbdonate We've also changed the process for raffle tickets bought for people that won't be staying for the drawing. IF you will not be staying then let the raffle seller know. They will have you sign a form which assigns you a unique number. Write that number onto the back of all of your tickets. It will be faster and more legible than writing your name and contact info onto each ticket. We are also not going to raffle the grand prize off to anyone not in attendance. So if you want the grand prize (still not sure what it is) then have a friend claim it for you.

We lost our photographer for the event. I can shoot it if needed but would rather not. Does anyone want to volunteer or have a friend that would be interested?

I just ordered streamers and window paint to decorate River. I'll have plenty to share but not enough for everyone so think about how to make your MINI festive for the event. Aim High Air Force!!!!

Don't forget to also RSVP for the lunch if you'll be joining us at Kilroy's

I can't remember what time is judging? We usually all show up around 9:00, right? Get the cars decorated and they judge later. Just trying to figure out when to show up

It will be great to finally meet you

I have all of my costume bits and will assemble at Passport like usual. Hoping it all works out. Tigger is going to be scary