Another day, more clouds.  I thought we were going to hit some warmer weather here!

There have been a lot of offsite tours at the venue this year.  We are scheduled to go on one on Saturday.  The presentations/seminars started in earnest around 2pm.

It started with a tech tips Q&A with the main repair dude from the LazyDays RV center.  LazyDays is a new Airstream dealer and so their service department is new also.  This guy did the best he could and they probably could do a decent job on repairs but he was a bit out of his element.  Some of the participants probably knew better than he did.

Next up was the judging of the ‘Aluminum Chef’.  The contestants were given a list of ingredients (cream cheese, raisins, maple, pumpkin or butternut squash, white beans).  9 people competed.  One of our new friends (Stephanie) created this:

Three were selected to continue to the finals on Saturday.  Stephanie made it to the final round as did her husband Sam.  We will see…

Happy hour and Taiko drumming were next.  A local drumming school, Odaiko Sonora, performed and were thoroughly entertaining.  The drumming was exact and very pleasant.  The commentary was informative and sublime.  Here are some shots of the performance:

The last part was audience participation.  I was too busy taking the pictures I couldn’t do it.  Darn.

The final evening presentation was “Tarnished Glow: the rise and fall of Miracle Mile” by Demion Clinco of the Tucson Historical Preservation Foundation.  He talked about the early history of Tucson and the integration of automobiles.  The history of how motor hotels came to be very prevalent to non-existent.  He told us about the Miracle Mile of Tucson, which ironically we were on earlier in the day.  It was disheartening to see the decline and decay of these historic items but heartening to see people interested in the preservation.

Back to the trailer and hearing a few raindrops falling.  <sigh>