Road Rally 2017 Results

I know that you have all been anxiously awaiting the results and we are sorry about that but it takes a while to count game pieces when we put up 24 UFOs!! We had 30 so you can thank your and our lucky stars that we restrained ourselves a tad!!! Barb is extremely cautious when doing the tabulating, which is a good thing.
Our report is that we had a great day!! We were able to sit outside the entire afternoon awaiting returning cars!! The weather could not have been any better and we are so thankful for that!! That is not the norm and because we were 10 cars down this year, Barb has made the decision that we will run this event two weeks later than we did this year! Ten cars is a lot! Many rally cars could not participate because their kids were in sports, it was Wisconsin Badger’s homecoming, or some other important family gathering that they could not miss! We want to include as many as possible so watch for us next year in November! And pray for us that we are not all in boots, scarves and mittens, and mufflers!!!!
We do want to share with all of you that we are becoming nationally renowned!!!!! Yes, we are! We had participants from Iowa and Missouri!! We were so moved that they would come this far to be part of our day! A huge challenge for our people was the mini library at the corner of W. Pearl and Fredrick. We tried to have them stop at each of the libraries and we asked for their charter numbers. Well, this one was built by the resident and was never registered. Barb and I watched as our people jumped out of the cars and went up to it. We watched Mike Jr. walk up to it and put his hands in the air! I could tell he was already wondering as the other libraries have that on the door. They are easy to read. Many even looked in the little box, moved a book or two, looked underneath, behind, inside and walked back to the car without the number. Finally, after lots of driving around a block or two, coming back again, they figured out the answer was none! Barb and I were dying laughing because it was so funny to us! One car said the youth in the car stated that this rally was very informative as they had NO clue that there were so many of these! We had many comments about the awesome jugs! There is a place in the country that has this hangy thing with these beautiful colored jugs on it!!! Of course, we had to use that! It’s as much fun for us to discover these unusual things in people’s yards, as it is for our cars to find it and see it as well! There was a spinning thing in one yard of the north addition that was on the passenger side of the car, where I sat, that made me kind of queasy every time we drove by and Barb had me check that it was still there. You know, homeowners sometimes put these garden globes or yard decorations away for the winter season.
We would like to thank Nancy B., Connie U., Jo T., Carol E., Sonja O., Roger H., Jon F., Buck and Nicole B., Dan P., J and M’s, Dot’s, Sportsman’s, Dam Bar, Schwedler’s bowling alley, the nice New Glarus family on 2nd Street, Sue and Steve A., Audrey R., Dan and Jeanett R., and all of YOU who have interesting stuff in your yards!! Thanks to Sue Moen for taking all the pics of our rally goers!!!
OK, onto the results…
1st: Car #14, Outlaws & Inlaws, 2,836; 2nd: Car #22, Ghouligans, 2,799; 3rd: Car #9, Gingerbread Girls, 2,723; 4th: Car #8, NOO-GO, 2,688; 5th: Car #12, Noldens Are Back, 2,649; 6th: Car #2, Mickey’s Magical Express, 2,580; 7th: Car #21, Pac Man, 2,548; 8th: Car #10, Jane’s Addiction, 2,545; 9th: Car #7, Are We There Yet, 2,527; 10th: Car #5, That’s Us, 2,506; 11th: Car #13, O Dair go Campbells, 2,465; 12th: Car #16, Fraggle Rock Disaster, 2,454; 13th: Car #19, Be Be Basco Bitches, 2,450; 14th: Car #24, Out of Retirement, 2,435; 15th: Car #3, Lost, 2,385; 16th: Car #15, More Lost, 2,322; 17th: Car #4, Other Team, 2,242; 18th: Car #11, Apple Dumpling, 2,218; 19th: Car #1, Born to Wander, 2,151; 20th: Car #18, Magical School Bus, 2,102; 21st: Car #23, Wieners , 2,095; 22nd: Car #6, Shotliff, 2,044; 23rd: Car #20, Scoffee no tea bag, 2,022.
Car #17, Tween Overload, did not return. But we got word that she was ‘done’ for the day and hope that they join us again another year!!!
Barb and I, along with countless others, drive for weeks to develop the route. We love what we do and try to make it fun and hope you enjoy the day deciphering what we put together! Her van held up for another year; we did too but it really helped we had that guy with us to put up all the UFOs and it was wonderful watching him so effortlessly get in and out of the ditches!! Because we had him, we were great on rally day! No aches nor pains or wood ticks!!! Our nighttime crew had one crawling on her, but she quickly disposed of it! Thanks to anyone who helped and all who joined us for Road Rally and until next year….we are already looking at what we can find for the next one!!!
More photos of Road Rally Teams are in the photo gallery on this website: http://www.postmessengerrecorder.com/photos.