'Ello Govnors,

October is nearly upon us and that means Halloween. I thought I'd throw together a 'spooky' MINI run to add to the October month of events. I'm setting the date for this run on the 23rd of October.

-The 8th Annual Fall Tour is scheduled for the 9th(TBA).-

(I'll change it if the 8AFT falls on that day)

The run is set to begin at the 'creepy' Maquoketa Caves, traverse across the 'eerie' Sebula Bridge, navigate some 'chilling' twisties and arrive at the Haunted Raven's Grin
http://www.hauntedravensgrin.com/

This is a neat place. It's more of a museum/tour than a haunted house and no-one will chase you with a chainsaw. There are some scary images and 'jump out and scare you' moments so kids under 10yrs old might not like it. The tour takes about 2hrs and the cost is $12. (We should reserve a tour in advance if our group is more than 15 since Oct. is their busy month).

Sign up here in this thread
-since I don't know how to do the 'sign up sheet' thing.

EDIT: Here's a link to the calendar sign-up --> Run to Raven's Grin

 

No longer TBA. The plans I've seen circulated for the 8th Annual Iowa Fall Tour indeed have it happening on October 9th. I expect deanman will be starting a thread here in our Forum sometime soon.

 

Mt. Carroll is about 40 miles from the house. We will see what is going on and maybe hook up with you all on the way.

 

Ravens Grin inn is great, I remember a 4 story bed slide in the house!!

I have met the owner many many times over the years he alone can scare you indeed.

 

I've added this to our CALENDER OF EVENTS (yea me!) OCTOBER 23rd
Go there for details and to sign up (yea me again!!)


Now, if I could only figure out how to say "click here" and go there that would be awesome!
Do not click the "click here" it won't work.

 

Hey Peeps,
I moved the date of this event to the 23rd of October. If anyone knows how to delete the Oct. 16th event from the calender please do so I couldn't figure it out. Thanks.

 

Calendar fix is done (I think D3m0N and I are the only ones with sufficient NAM permissions to edit posts in our Forum).

David, I think moving this drive to October 23rd is a great move. Closer to Halloween (better scare factor) and more likely that folks coming off of the Iowa Fall Tour will be able to make a place for it on their schedules. Thanks!

(If you want your "click here" to work, try this:
- Go to your post in your web browser. Open your calendar entry in a separate browser window. Highlight the text in your post that you want to turn into a hyperlink, then select the link icon (the little earth symbol with the chain links) -- you'll see a pop-up with a place to enter a URL. Copy the URL from the second browser window and paste it into the pop-up window. That's all there is to it.)

 

Ravens Grin Inn fills up near halloween so expect 1 - 2 hours of waiting any time in october (yes it is open year round)

 

Yeah, but we'll all be with our MINI buddies, so I'm sure that 2 hours will seem like 15 minutes.

 

Not if we reserve a tour in advance. But to do that you have to pay in advance and I don't know how many are going as of yet.

 

Ok, just spoke with the GRINN.
I will send off a check for 'x' amount of $$ to reserve a time slot. If I over pay they can refund the difference and all of you can reimburse me. If I'm short on the cash we can make up the difference there. So if your committed or even thinking about going please sign up for a head count. I will figure 2/MINI.

 

Smo Jo, suggest you set a target date for having your preliminary headcount, so folks know when they need to commit. Otherwise, with the event date being over 5 weeks away no one is going to feel a sense of urgency to lock in.

 

People can sign up until the 23rd of October.
I'll call the Grinn the day before with our head count.
(For those that will pay at the Grinn...Cash Only)

 

Our Tour Time has been confirmed! Raven's Grinn is excited about having the MINI's populate their parking lot!

 

Website posting w/links is up.

 

RE: tickets

I'll just need to collect $12 from two people.
Everyone else can pay at the window before the tour.

 

Should I mail you a check, or do you want to wait until the 23rd?

 

23rd is fine.

 

Wish I could join all the fun, but I can't

 

Jo, any final words of wisdom for those of us making the run on Saturday?

 

Unfortunately Pam & I won't be able to make this one... Family things yah know. Have fun!

 

I wish I could make this one to, but we also have family things that we are "required" to attend.... I would rather not, but we all know how that works.

 

"He who breaks wind in church sits in his own pew."

Oh, not the wisdom you were looking for eh?

Weather: 30% chance of rain & 67 degrees for the temperature.
Bring an umbrella and a cozy sweater just incase.

It looks like 8 MINIs (16 people) are enrolled so far.
I'll call the Grin tomorrow with the latest headcount.

I need to collect $12 from 2 people, fight amongst yourselves for that priviledge. The rest of you can pay at the Grin.

Gotta get started on the detailing. See ya!!

 

**Update**

Mapquest version of route:
http://www.mapquest.com/mq/7-8jSQp77vjdR8

I have changed the meet/departure time to 9:00am/9:45am
to help keep us on track or ahead of schedule. I updated the itinerary but it wouldn't upload. Sorry.
If we keep our pedal to the metal we should be fine. Any problems with that? I didn't think so.

 

Ill be alone this time and im not planning on takeing the tour of grin.Mike