Thank you to all who stopped by, if you signed our sheet your formal thank you letters will find their way to you this week. We signed up 2 new members yesterday and have quite a few that are interested in membership that got more information from us. You are the ones that make this a joy to participate in. We also had a former member or two stop in, who are interested in rejoining! We are looking forward to serving you again.
A big shout out goes to Tammy Soto and her family that helped in the tent, we really appreciate the help! It gets tough trying to handle it all ourselves, so ALL help is worth its weight in gold. Corbin Bingham, Tammy's son-in-law, and Ivan MacKillip, our new State Chaplain, and I had a delightful conversation when we found out we were all book & movie geeks and Joss Whedon fans...you can imagine that conversation! I found out that Ivan is a Sean Bean fan...those who know me, know that he is my favorite actor and Ivan and I had an enjoyable discussion about our shared joy in the Sharp series, among other favorites. Ivan also gave me some information about the only kilted regiment in the civil war...the 79th NY State Militia...which I will be doing research on...and reporting back to you about.
Tammy's niece's fiance, Justin Jefferson, discovered that he is also a Donald and is looking forward to becoming a member...he would have joined yesterday...but he spent his money on a Donald kilt...money well spent, we think! He is also talking about getting the clan crest as his next tattoo...love it!
The only downside to the day was that we forgot our camera...so we do not have a bunch of pictures to share...we did manage to get a few with my cell phone though...I will post them tomorrow, but I am not sure of the quality of them yet.
We had a nice turn out for marching in the Parade of Clans, lifetime member Alan Bonny carried the Commissioners flag, Ivan carried the Clan name, plus we had Frank Cross and his daughter, Morgan...who has recently become engaged, with us. Also with us was new member, David McDaniel, who did the kilted run after the parade...I didn't get to hear how that went for him...hope he did well!
We could hear the athletics announcer from our tent although we couldn't see the actual events...someone broke the world record by 15 feet...not sure for which event...but the announcer was over the moon! And congrats to whoever did the deed!
All of this is just the highlights that I can remember...
Thank you again to all who participated and to all those to came by the tent!
Kate
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