The 2nd annual Galveston Wash, Wax & Cruising MINI Style Galveston, TX will be held the weekend of April 13th, 14th, and 15th 2007.

This is a Rain or Shine event

The scheduled for the weekend events are:

Friday, April 13th:

• 6:45 PM Caravan departs from the La Quinta Inn and Suites in Seabrook, TX for Top Water Grill in San Leon, TX
• 7:30 PM Dinner at Top Water Grill

Saturday, April 14th:

• 8:00 AM Wash and Wax at the La Quinta Inn and Suites in Seabrook, TX
• 10:15 AM Caravan departs from La Quinta Inn and Suites to meet at meet up on Hwy 45 for the 10:50 AM Caravan to Galveston.
• 10:50 AM Caravan from Kohl’s / Wal-Mart Parking lot on Hwy 45 and El Dorado departs for Galveston.
• 11:45 AM Arrive at Sonic Drive Inn on Galveston’s Seawall for lunch
• 12:50 PM Depart Sonic Drive Inn
• 1 PM Arrive at Shriners Hospital
• 1 PM Arrive at Cherry Hill
  For those that do not wish to motor to the Hospital you can proceed directly to “Cherry Hill” for the Ferry Line up.
• 1:15 PM Depart Shriners Hospital
• 1:25 PM Arrive at Cherry Hill
• 1:30 PM Depart Cherry Hill to proceed to the Ferry Landing
• 2:30 PM Hopefully will be at Crystal Beach
• 4:45 PM Prize Giveaway
• 5 PM Depart for Ferry
• 6:30 PM Regroup to proceed to dinner
• 7:30 PM Dinner at Chabuca’s Steaks & Rotisserie

10:50, 12:50, 1:30, and 5 are “locked” times, the rest are flexible which most depending on traffic and ferry wait time conditions.

Sunday, April 15th:

• 8:30 AM Caravan departs from La Quinta Inn and Suites to meet at Waffle House for Breakfast
• 9:30 AM Caravan departs from Waffle House for San Jacinto Monument and Battle Grounds / Fred Hartman Bridge
• 10 AM Arrive at Battle Grounds; Tour Monument and Battleship, those that wish can eat at the park, or decide on a place to eat after leaving from park.

There will be several designated spots for a MINI line up to take group photos. The use of FRS radios will be used when the caravans are rolling, so if you do not have one it is high recommend that you get one. The FRS channel that will be used will be 40.

Please feel free to leave anytime during the day long event as I know this is a long event. I had giveaways last time and yes, I will have giveaways again this time, however, please keep in mind you must be present to win any of the prizes given away at the raffle drawing that will be held prior to departing from Crystal Beach.

If you are going to WAX (www.zainostore.com) your car you are welcome to show up before 8 AM! I suggest you having your WAX on your MINI probably no later than 8:45 AM to give you plenty of time for the wax to cure and for you to be able to buff before we depart to meet the 10:50 AM meeting spot.

This event was first held last year, April 2006. There were 18 MINIs, which was not bad considering the way the weather started out in the morning, RAINING and not the kind of car washing or beach weather one would want. However by the time we got down to Galveston the clouds broke loose and we had plenty of sunshine. If the weather would have not been the way it was there would have been a stronger showing from the previous responses that were received prior to the event! FYI: The caravan crossing via the ferry was able to take up one and half lanes out of the 6 lanes on the Ferry for the crossing over to Crystal Beach.

There was one MINI from the Dallas area and another that came over from the San Antonio area, this is by no means a Houston Area only event! Lodging is at the La Quinta Inn and Suites in Seabrook, TX for those that would want to stay overnight.

Again, please share any comments and our suggestions as the planning of this event is in the early stages of being planned. A web page, MINIFunDrives.com for this event is up.

The driving routes, event schedule details, menus, etc are all posted on the website.

Are you coming??? Please visit the website for more information and please let me know that you are coming so we can be better prepared for the events.