Bowling Green - Day 4

We were up and at the Museum for a tour of the countryside with 68 other Corvettes.

The pictures are:
1. Cars ready for the tour at the drivers meeting.
2. The Bluegrass band and yes we enjoyed them!
3. 1954 Gold Certified and in the Museum.
4. The 2010 Grand Sport – just displayed today. Is this what Tom Hill will be driving to the show?

The trip took us up to Owensboro, KY to the Bluegrass Museum. At the Museum we were treated to an hour concert by a local bluegrass group. I must say, it was really good.

After a tour of the Museum, we then all headed to the Moonlight Barbeque Inn in town for a buffet that was pretty good. During the trip we talked to a number of the owners about Bloomington Gold and found out that a lot do not even read Corvette magazines so how could they know about Bloomington Gold.

After the trip back, we then went back to the Corvette Museum for a meeting with the New Corvette Delivery Manager and he gave approval to put a Bloomington Gold show flyer and tickets to the show in every new Corvette that they deliver! That ought to get us noticed.

Then the show at the Museum was over and it was back to the hotel to get ready for the evenings entertainment at the convention center in town, which is just across the street from our hotel. The theme of the dinner and evening is “Margaritaville” so we wore our best, most colorful outfits.

It was a fun evening and we made a number of really good contracts with the Museum and C5/C6 people.

Tomorrow is back home and we will leave about 8 in the morning for the 7 hour drive.

Hope everyone has enjoyed following our trip – it was well worth going and we can’t thank Carol and Mike Stypolkowski enough for coming with us – they are a great couple to travel with and an asset to Bloomington Gold.

See you on our blog the next trip – Barb and Ed.

Bowling Green - Day 3

Day 3 started in Memphis and we left early and headed for Bowling Green, KY.

The weather was perfect, finally.

The pictures are:
1. Onto Bowling Green.
2. At the Museum.
3. Barb’s sampler platter.

The drive was a fast 4 hours and we first checked in at the Marriott and then over to the

Museum and checked in there. Shortly afterwards, we headed over to the Corvette plant for our tour.

It was fun to see the cars from start to finish and we saw everything except the painting process.

Then it was back to the Museum for the rest of the afternoon. I talked to a lot of vendors who have been at the show and are planning on being back, even though they haven’t sent in their money yet – so that was good to get the commitments that I did. Saw and talked to a number of the staff that I have been dealing with at the Museum so it was a very, very good first day at the show.

Afterwards we went downtown to a great restaurant that had been recommended by two of the staff of the museum. They were cooking crawfish outside in the street for the restaurant and after we ordered, Ed went out and asked for some samples. As you can see, they gave him a full tray, so Barb got her appetizer.

Tomorrow we have a tour with 68 other Corvettes before heading back to the Museum.

See you in tomorrow’s blog.

Bowling Green Trip – Day 2

Memphis

Well this was to be our fun day in Memphis and we started at 9:00 am heading for Graceland. It was a little cloudy and had just rained so the tops stayed up.

The pictures are:

1. The living room at Graceland.

2. Some of the gold records and clothes of Elvis.

3. The ducks leaving the Peabody Hotel fountain in the lobby.
4. Party on the roof of the Hotel

We spent from 9:15am until 3:00pm and what fun we had. I was a fun time and we walked and walked and walked.

After Graceland, we went downtown to the Peabody Hotel and sat in their magnificent lobby until 5:00pm when it was time for the famous ducks to leave the fountain in the center of the hotel and go to the roof for the evening. The ducks come down every day at 11:00am and go back at 5:00pm. Dozens and dozens of people watched the ducks leaving on a red carpet to the elevator.

We went to dinner at a famous rib place and it was fine but not the best as far as we were concerned. The 17th Street Bar & Grill in O’Fallon was better.

The downtown was filled with horse drawn carriages and Carol had never been on one so we took a tour of the city in one for 30 minutes.

Then we went to the Peabody roof top for an open air party.

Then it was down to Beale Street, much like New Orleans and finally back to the hotel.

We leave at 7am for Bowling Green. Night, Night.

National Corvette Museum - Day 1

National Corvette Museum Trip

The picture is at Carol and Mikes as we were leaving.

This trip is to attend the C5/C6 Bash at the National Corvette Museum.

They have 750+ pre-registered late-model Corvettes who will be there and a number of vendors. I arranged for the Museum to pass out a Bloomington Gold flyer to all attendees so we hope to get some business from this event.

We started out the trip by heading for Memphis with Carol and Mike Stypolkowski. None of us have been to Graceland so it is a one-day mini-vacation to go there first.

We arrived at 9:30pm after an 8 hour drive from home. It was a fairly easy drive and it was all Interstate 55 until we arrived in Memphis.

Barb and Ed went into the hot tub and Carol and Mike crashed. Mike had been in Chicago the night before with the Fox Valley Corvette Club and only had 4 hours sleep last night.

While we were eating dinner he received a call from a Fort Worth, Texas club that is coming to the show!

After answering e-mails and doing the blog, it is time for bed – night.