Sept 6 2008

We had a wonderful time at a local old car festival in the beer tent. We went for the first time last year and had such a good time, that we wanted to go again this year. I'm glad that Mark's back was up to it so that we could go! The last shot that he had in his back on Wednesday seems to have finally hit the right spot. The MRI that they took a couple of weeks ago helped the doctor to get the needle pointed at the right area finally. Mark gets one more shot this Wednesday and then next week he is going to see a surgeon to see what can be done. Unfortunately the shots are only a temporary fix that many times only lasts a couple of weeks.

Here's our "group"....Sherry, Dale, Steve, Judy and Mark. I'm behind the camera.

Here's the announcers.... Blondie and Johnny Burke.
The Beat Club..... They were the warm up group. Pretty good. Great to hear many of the old Beatles songs again. They dressed and acted like the Beatles that all of us baby boomers loved.
The Diamonds...... They were wonderful entertainment. This group has been around for decades! They were amongst the entertainment on the ship when we took our cruise to Alaska with a group of friends. The guy on the left was a baritone and the guy in the blue shirt was the tenor. They did most of the lead singing. Very entertaining! The baritone could really go LOW and the tenor, really HIGH! They also played instruments as you can see in the photo below.
The main act was Phil Dirt and the Dozers. One just cannot say how great this group is. They did so many songs that relate to the baby boomer generation. This entertainment was outstanding!
We think that there had to have been over 1000 people there if not more. The place was packed. The dance floor was shoulder to shoulder. People were even using the aisles to dance.

Here's Sherry and Dale in the center dancing to the Diamonds.
Steve and Judy got out to shake a leg to the faster paced music. Steve is the one with the white tennis shoes. You can just see Judy's head to the right of Steve.
Here's a shot of us together. We were having the best time. Hopefully we will be able to make this party again next year. We only danced to one slow dance, but sure did have a lot of fun watching everyone else dance. We swayed and sang along with the groups as they played the oldies.
There was an antique car festival earlier in the day. I didn't even take any photos of the cars that we did see. We did not walk up and down the rows of cars this year like we had the previous year. We got there to the festival right around 5 pm and the old cars were all lined up on the street trying to get out of the festival. We were lucky and got waved to the parking lot that was the closest to the beer tent. The old cars were pulling out, so there were spots to park. We still had to walk quite a distance across a farm field and then through the vendor stands before we got to the beer tent area. Last year we walked nearly a mile to get back to our car I think! We had an all you can eat spaghetti dinner, hosted by the Lion's Club, before we went into the beer tent. Was yummy for the price of $8 each. It was a wonderful evening with great friends. Thanks so much again to Steve and Judy for telling us about this fun time!