[marvins_dad]

Earl posted this on the Topica list.
Sounds like there is a great grass roots movement to have a year 10 for the Roswell Show!

Please vote in the poll, I want to see how many are definatley going to make the show and who is going to plan on making it.

As you all know the R2K events have been canceled leaving us all sad and depressed. David did a marvelous job and I respect his feelings. We just can not let this happen so we all need to get together and fix this problem. A few of us have joined forces with the hardline commitment to make a New Beetle Reunion happen in 2009 in Roswell.

The core of the committee is Earl "Cueball" McCutcheon , Lisa Herr, Jerry O'Hara, Howie, Ray Townsend, and Antoine DeHon, but it will take a dedication from the whole New Beetle community to make this happen.

The event will take place on June 25th through the 28th of 2009. It will be headquartered at the Sally Port in Roswell. Planning is in place to have the banquet hall at the Sally Port available on Saturday night for the main party portion of the reunion. We are also negotiating to have the South part of the parking lot (behind the Dairy Queen and away from stray golf balls) to have an impromptu car show on Saturday afternoon (no trophies just an opportunity for everyone to see the new goodies on all the cars). Since this is more about the friends that we have all found during this great show we will not limit the attendance to New Beetle owners per say, but to anyone who has attended any of the R2K events (some of our friends have gone to the dark side for one reason or another, but they still have warm feelings for what R2K stood for and need to be a art of this thing).

We are tentatively planning for the following activities:
Thursday, June 25th - meet for evening of great Mexican Food and Margaritas at Tia Juana's at 7:00.
Friday, June 26th - Organized caravan to some near by sight (if you wish) to start around 10:00 and finish ? Possible drive in movie deal in the evening.
Saturday, June 27th - Impromptu car show 11:00 to 3:00, possibly the parade of colors if the town elects, reunion party with dinner from 6:00 till ? with R2K memorabilia, toy swap/sell, Barbie car show, and lots of bench racing.
Sunday, June 28th - breakfast goodbye.

Of course this is all tentative and we will be having polls on the list to figure out what you all want to do, but this is a good starting point to work from and discuss.

We need to get volunteers for area representatives for as many places as we can. Their responsibility would be to advertise the event in their area, organize caravans, be the spokes persons, etc. As you all know the Roswell portion is only the meat of the adventure sandwich. The bread, on both sides, is the trip to and from which for me at least has been some of my most memorable times.

R2K was successfully started by the grass roots method and I feel we can do this the same way. I want to keep the costs down to a minimum as we all know how expensive it is to take a vacation these days. We do need, however, to get a pretty good estimate count of who would be going as soon as we can. I am arranging the deal with the Sally Port now and I would like to see as many stay there as possible (everyone if we can). Once I get the deal done then I would hope that as many as can would make their reservations as soon as possible.
Remembering that you can cancel right up to the 25th with no obligations. In this way I can work with the Hotel and keep a good track on the numbers and this would be a tremendous help!!! In the mean time I need to get a straw man count quickly because that will help with my negotiations with the Hotel. So maybe you could write to me and estimate how many people would come from your respective areas. (the banquet hall holds 300 and I want to fill it to capacity) So keep an eye out for further information coming out soon. Lets "get-r-done" and show the world just how great (crazy) us New Beetleers are! Maybe even create an avenue to have these every year - who knows?

Cueball