MINIsOnTop

A while after Margaret and I arrived at Attitash and grabbed some pool time, other MINIs started arriving too …

We met up with Theo and Carol, and then decided to head out to Wildcat Mountain. Marie Catherine has loaned me her MINI convertible for the weekend, and with spectacular weather we all piled in for the drive:

Wildcat Mountain took about 20 degrees off the temperature as we rode up in the gondola, but gave great views of the White Mountains (and some still had white – snow!):

This mountain Mount Washington, you can see the summit with weather station and antenna towers on the left, some snow in the middle, and a thin strip of the Mount Washington auto road on the right.

 

Thanks to Marie Catherine, Margaret and I headed up to New Hampshire in MINI convertible top-down style today, and now we are poolside at the Attitash Grand Summit hotel, grabbing lunch 🙂

A little strange after the last few years – but for MINIsOnTop 2010 I’m just helping out the organizers Richard and Sarah; and today headed in to Boston to assist with packing day. Once again, around 230 MINIs and close to 500 people will be attending, so it’s a few hours of work putting together 230+ mailing packages containing the needed MOT booklet and other paperwork, meal and auto road tickets, Tshirts, antenna balls, cling decals, etc, etc.
Of course, I took a few pictures too 🙂

Tasks divided, with different people focusing on different parts of the job, makes for fastest packing – Lynn did auto road and food tickets, Richard sorted name tags and checked envelopes, Sarah checked / applied address labels, while Michael and Josh selected Tshirts (I drove the front end, with the easy task of putting “same for everyone” stuff in each envelope!); and to ensure the least chance of folks getting the wrong stuff, we had Quality Control check each envelope – Brian, Kevin and Shannon!

If you’re registered for MINIsOnTop, expect a package in the next week … if not, sorry it’s too late now!