PAGE 12...Opening Weekend MNRF

[DeadBishop]

So........who's going to be out on sunday now?

[SleepyArcher]

did u just get home DB? We will be out with kidlets.

[ladiedragon]

we'll be there today!

[Storm]

I was out there for a while today, but since I am not a fan of warm weather, I left early.

When water started tasting better then beer I knew it was time to leave. Good thing too, it's pushing 91 here right now as I type this!

[Charlotte Rowan]

I left early today too. My boss let me off 2 hours early and I decided just to go home, because I was really hot and uncomfortable, plus my shoulder and feet were really sore from holding the chocolate tray and wearing flip flops. Ugh.

[Lady_Lily]

just got home! Was wonderful to see everyone that I saw this weekend! To those I missed, next weekend! It was a fantastic time...and I must compliment on the wonderful food. MG...that was some awesome turkish stuff! And the FKP...OMG! :-)

[Kiss-me-Kate]

The girl, myself and my cousin Britty were out today for a little while after the bridal-shower-from-hell.

Oh, my and look, here, I dropped thirty bucks in Mac's Pub, and picked up a shiny trinket of the Dregs variety.


Lily, you looked lovely in your new gown.  great job dancing too-the few minutes I got to catch.

[groomporter]

Great to see everyone again. Sales were pretty good for us, we had our best first weekend since
2001. I also heard from a couple different sources that attendance was over 12,600 for Saturday.

I hate to say it, but Beth and I are wondering if the news in the local media about Joe Kudla (AKA Snot) passing away might have helped increase awareness among the public that the first weekend was here upon us. We heard from friends as far away as Arizona who had stumbled
on his obituary. -Perhaps we have to list it under the heading of "any publicity is good publicity"

[Charlotte Rowan]

Great to see everyone again. Sales were pretty good for us, we had our best first weekend since
2001. I also heard from a couple different sources that attendance was over 12,600 for Saturday.

I hate to say it, but Beth and I are wondering if the news in the local media about Joe Kudla (AKA Snot) passing away might have helped increase awareness among the public that the first weekend was here upon us. We heard from friends as far away as Arizona who had stumbled
on his obituary. -Perhaps we have to list it under the heading of "any publicity is good publicity"

Sales were phenomenal for us for first day too. Sunday was a pretty normal first Sunday, maybe slightly busier. I do think the publicity from Joe's death had a lot to do with it. It's sad, but I imagine many people were out to pay their respects, which is okay. Although I'm sure many were there out of mobid curiosity as well....

[Random Girl]

Hey all, it was nice to see who I did, I hope MG found her brother, sorry I worked Friday night and ended up being awake for 42 hours by the time I went to bed Saturday night at 10:30.  I saw some of you but I was pretty out of it for most of the weekend.  I should be more with it next weekend, even though I think I work all three nights.

Hope you all had fun.  I know me and Avalon did!

[Sitara]

We went through 9 kegs of beer at Foaming this weekend which is a lot for opening weekend.  If I remember correctly we only went through 5 last year.

[Muffin]

We went through 9 kegs of beer at Foaming this weekend which is a lot for opening weekend.  If I remember correctly we only went through 5 last year.

WOW!!!!  Yay Foaming Stein!!!!!

[Will Gamwell]

Carr's comment during Cast Call on sunday was that opening saturday last year there were roughly 4000 people that came through the gates.  Last saturday, roughly 12,500.

Sorry to those that I didn't get to meet as of yet, and glad to meet those that I did get a chance to meet.  It was a great weekend overall.  Lots of catching up with old friends, making new ones....and a lot of sweat & dirt.

Sean

[Charlotte Rowan]

Carr's comment during Cast Call on sunday was that opening saturday last year there were roughly 4000 people that came through the gates.  Last saturday, roughly 12,500.

Sorry to those that I didn't get to meet as of yet, and glad to meet those that I did get a chance to meet.  It was a great weekend overall.  Lots of catching up with old friends, making new ones....and a lot of sweat & dirt.

Sean

Jaysus! over 3x as many. Of course, it was also rainy first weekend last year, so maybe it's usually a little higher than 4000, but still. Crazy!

[groomporter]

But last year didn't we have monsoon rains first weekend?

Our sales on first weekend 2007 were the worst we've had since our very first year at MNRF