A big thank you to the group of crazies I was privileged to spend the week with. Before Romney, Trikepilot/Harrison is the Host With The Most and your hospitality was wonderful. Thanks for inviting us into your home. Patrick is always the life of every party, TrueGrip with his cool depth and patience, my buddy Dirt_Dad, and of course Snakebitten, which was NOT a name I wanted to use in front of the kids. LOL
And thanks to everyone else who was willing & able to come. I haven't had a chance to get into the shirt stuff yet, but the donations to the Potomac Center are more than $2,600 so far and that number will go up. We got to meet the kids and it just grabbed our hearts to see how excited they got to sit on the bikes on the center stands, press the starter buttons, and blow the horns. For those not there to meet them, these are true orphans who may never be adopted, as they will continue to need help even after their bodies have grown up. Like Limey said, there were a lot of moist eyes among us.
This event has always been the weekend before Mothers Day and had perfect weather for the first four years, before the rain of the last two. In fact, the weather was so beautiful after the last items we do to close on Sunday, I just stood by the fence for a while gazing out at the green hills.
I've got some more photos and we've got some ideas for improvements for next year to run by you all. I'll email with those who couldn't pick up their shirts or asked to pay postage and have them mailed, but it's now after 11pm and I'm going to bed.