NEMC Annual Summer Picnic - July 30th

[CRIANA]

<center>NEMC
invites all members to the
HondaSUV BBQ

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/BBQ2005.jpg


When: Saturday, July 30th
(rain date: Sunday, July 31st)

Where: FDR Park
(a.k.a. Mohansic State Park)

Time: Noon until

Refreshments: BYOF&D

RSVP: by posting here


We really like to call it the BYOF&D Event (bring your own food & drink)
All we need is for other members to join us!

Come on! Don't be shy! This will be a fun-filled, relaxing way to start the summer.

FYI: There will not be any door prizes or special events. This is just a time for all of us to get to know one another. Oh yeah, and to eat too!

Don't forget to bring your own hibachis, frisbee's footballs, baseball equipment, soccer balls, bikes, folding chairs, etc., along with your food and drink.

For Directions and a little more info about the park, http://nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/info.asp?parkID=139

Hosted by the NEMC</center>

Link fixed

[Anonymous]

Hey Di,

Thanks for sending the email. Paula and I will try to make it. I will give you a definite soon.

All of the members of the NEMC should try to make it to this meet. It is one of the more relaxing of the meets. You will get to talk to alot of the other members in this setting and like Diana said it is a great way to start the summer. If you haven't come to a meet yet this is the one to come to.

See you all soon! (hopefully)

-Keith

[Goonga Ron]

Diana-

Great pic! I can't wait for the weekend to get here already! I always enjoy meeting up with my 2nd family.

See you guys/gals on 7/30!

[Rudy]

Diana,
Nice job as always with the post.
I'm getting a "404" error on the link!

And yes I'll be there, lookin' forward to this one! Hoping to see everyone try to make it.

Rudy

[CRIANA]

Keith:
Hope you and Paula can make it, and if not this one, then definitely the Fall one.

Rudy:
Fixed the link, it looks like the revamped their site and changed the link structure all set now.

Now to find the map and which parking area.

[blueiedgod]

Hey, my Civic made it into the picture, lol. Well, this year we will be in a HondaSUV :-)

Diana, hopefully you don't mind, I posted this on Edmunds. Without links to HondaSUV, they have been really strict about pocting links to HondaSUV. Funny thing is, I found out about CRVIX from Varmint on Edmunds. :-)

[CRIANA]

Not a problem at all, if you want I can put together a page on my server, so you can link to that.

Actually you can copy the info and link to the image, it's off on my server.

Thanks!!! hey if we get some more people will be great!!

[perro_loco]

Sounds cool. Beth and I will probably be in the city on the 29th with a couple of friends from FL. Hopefully we'll be able to join the fun especially if its still in NY. Warning you we might be a little tired from the night (or morning) before, but I'll definately try and make it. 8) Might have to abuse vivarin tho :twisted:

[jimmiegrillo]

Sounds great! Glad to finally not be busy for one of these events.

I talked to my buddy, Erica, and she's free, so we'll both be joining the party on the 30th.

Hope to see some familiar faces, and some new ones, excited about putting names and faces together.

See everybody there!

[Rudy]

I called FDR today and the parking fee is 6.00 per car.
I got a fax of the park and we will be in lot 6 with a back up lot of 4.
Hope some of the new NEMC can join us.
Not sure how good this pic is!!!

Rudy

[CRIANA]

Thanks Rudy - that's a good enough map I think to get an idea of where to go.

If all else fails, when people get there, they get a map.

Also bring along an FRS radio and tune it to channel 7.

[skyout]

I'm envious. Somebody cook a burger and eat it for me. :lol:

Have a great time, guys. Maybe one year I'll be able to make it up there. I'd love to see the old covered bridges.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the e-mail! I will definately be there. I'm part of a honda familly. My brother has a blue honda cr-v 97 ex, I have a silver 00 honda cr-v ex, my parents have a gold honda cr-v 01 se & My sister has a 03 civic ex. I will try to convince them to bring their cars for the meet. I will try to make it a family day.

[Anonymous]

There I am I needed to log in

[blueiedgod]

The more the merrier. If you look to the right in the big picture Diana posted, the little black car on the right is my Civic Si. :-)

Thanks for the e-mail! I will definately be there. I'm part of a honda familly. My brother has a blue honda cr-v 97 ex, I have a silver 00 honda cr-v ex, my parents have a gold honda cr-v 01 se & My sister has a 03 civic ex. I will try to convince them to bring their cars for the meet. I will try to make it a family day.

[CRIANA]

Thanks for the e-mail! I will definately be there. I'm part of a honda familly. My brother has a blue honda cr-v 97 ex, I have a silver 00 honda cr-v ex, my parents have a gold honda cr-v 01 se & My sister has a 03 civic ex. I will try to convince them to bring their cars for the meet. I will try to make it a family day.

Like Blueiedgod said the more the merrier. Honda/Acura it's all in the family. It's a real casual event, although all of the meets are really casual, very laid back and friendly.

Hope your able to make it, everyone or just one :-)

CRIANA

[perro_loco]

Ok no partyin the night before for me so I'm bringin ma grill (Grill2Go). Unless someone tells me or i find out that theres no grillin. Probably bringin a mini fridge in the V too so if y'all want cooked food there I got the cookin part covered. I'll bring 1 box (12) burgers and a pack (8) hotdogs. See yall there. :mrgreen:

[perro_loco]

pack of 8 doggies

[Rudy]

Perro, grillin is just fine no prob at all.
They do have grills already there, you just need charcoal for them.
Remember to bring a garbage bag since you are required to take whatever you bring with you home again including garbage.
No prob with alcohol just have to keep it under control.
I'll try to get there around 11:00ish to grab our spot.
Bring cameras too.

Rudy

jimmiegrillo, I made the plunge and went for a true digital SLR the Olympus E-300 so bring your Nikon so we can play, if your still coming!!!!

[jimmiegrillo]

alright, Rudy! that's awesome. i really love my Nikon, hope u really enjoy your Olympus (all my point and shoot digitals were olympus, and were great). I think i'm bringing my new PowerBook too, have to have all my toys.

i've taken so many pix on vacation so far, can't wait to share w/everybody. oh.. got some filters for the Nikon too... Circular Polarizer, UV, 6x cross filter, and 3x closeup.

can't wait to see everybody!

[Bald Eagle]

Will post this over at the Element Owners Club site. The New England Chapter has discovered that getting together with other owners is fun. Don't know if we'll make it, though. Expecting weekend guests and have other things planned.

[perro_loco]

OK I was hopin my fridge was gonna work with my inverter but no such luck :? so I'm stuck with cooler(s). I'll see you guys there :wink:

[Rudy]

OK
It's five days away! And mother nature is looking good! Don't want to make much noise about the weather but it does look good for Saturday!!
Got a chance to work some OT (very rare these days) so I won't be able to get there before noon, was hoping to get there to claim a spot in Lot 6 around 11:00 ish.
Gonna just bring snacks and some sandwhich stuff rather than grilling always seem to forget something when I grill away from home!!
So don't forget your radio's, on channel 7, and your camera's.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!See all this Saturday!!!!!!!!!

Brenda, I'll have your stickers with me. You guys drive safe that's a long drive!


Rudy

[blueiedgod]

Shold we bring the goodies, or wait until the Berkshieres meet/Foliage tour?

I was just about to remind you about the stickers. So far we have HondaSUV member supporter, Goongala Goonga, FHP (Bing sent those as well) and my WOW stickers on the back window :-) I was thinking of putting the NEMC sticker/s on the rear quater panel windows.

[Anonymous]

Hey guys! We will definitely be there. So you will finally get to see Alexandra. See you all soon!

-Keith


http://homepage.mac.com/thelynchfamily/Alex.jpg

[klynch13]

Forgot to log in, sorry guys.

[CRIANA]

Blueiedgod,
Hold off on the goodies until the Fall Foliage trip.

Jimmie,
Gadgets are always good. I'll have my stuff with me too.

PerroLoco,
Good to see you guys again.

Klynch13,
Very cool, good to hear your going to be able to make it.

[blueiedgod]

I am bringing my Nitro powered R/C's a car and a truck. Anyone else who is into R/C bring yours, we can race. :-)

Car - HPI RS4-3
Truck T-maxx

Both are modified to some extent :-)

[klynch13]

I have a tyco bandit.

http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/1983/TycobahaBandit1.jpg

Gotta love that turbo. I think it will run for 10 mintues before the batteries die. lol.

[blueiedgod]

As long as we are not on the same channel, we could play.

[klynch13]

I'll have to dig it out of the closet. I also have a hot rod that is somewhere in the closet.

http://i16.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/56/80/71_1_b.JPG

[CRIANA]

Hey everyone,
We had a great time. It was nice to see some new faces, we hope you too had a good time and will come back again.

I've been a bit busy today so haven't had a chance to do the write up. I will post a full write up tomorrow night.

If you took pictures yesterday, email me diana [at] criana . com --- and I will send you a username and password for the NEMC Photo Gallery.

There is an album set up already so people can begin uploading.

[Rudy]

Another nice day for a picnic (BBQ) it was great to get some new folks to show up.
Thanks, Michele and I had a great time.
I did post some pics in the gallery.

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/fdr05

Rudy

P.S. will update the captions tomorrow

[skyout]

I would never do anything with them but wouldn't it be a good idea to black out everyone's license #s?

[klynch13]

Yeah, skyout is right. I usually block out the plates when I take pics of the group. Try to do it when you get a chance Rudy.

It was a great day. Great to see everyone and to meet more people. It was a great turnout this year.

Talk to you all soon.


-Keith, Paula & Alexandra

[skyout]

Looks so cool to have all those Vs together. 8) So who won the R/C race? :lol:

[klynch13]

I beat Bradley the dog. hahah. I had no chance.

[Goonga Ron]

My girlfriend and I had a really nice time. It was really nice to meet new people and see some familiar faces (even if they are ugly ;-) ).

It's great to getaway to just sit back and relax!

Can't wait for the next one.

[perro_loco]

oh Ron's got jokes :lol:

[CRIANA]

Can you believe it, I still haven't loaded my photos off my camera yet. :cry: :cry:

Been a bit insanely busy. And tonight I just destressed. So tomorrow night is looking real good for doing a write up, adding my photos up to the gallery.

Because we sure do have a good story for the finale to that meet :lol: 8)

[skyout]

Now I think you're trying to build the suspense up like a Hitchcock movie. :lol:

[CRIANA]

Well it came and went again, the Annual North East Member Club picnic. This year it was held again at FDR Park in Yorktown Heights, NY. The park is about 40 minutes out of New York City.

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/albums/fdr05/P7300902a.sized.jpg

Blueiedgod and Brenda got there ahead of time and secured a spot for us to picnic at. HondaCRVerde arrived next, followed by Rudy, Michele, Perro Loco, Beth, Joey RR and someone hit me I can’t remember his other half’s name (I am so so sorry).

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/albums/fdr05/IMG_2227.sized.jpg

Craig and I arrived next and set up to relax. The park was really busy this weekend, and we couldn’t park our cars right next to our spot, we were across the parking lot, which isn’t far.

Jimmiegrillo from Connecticut came along with his friends Erika and Mike. So we got 2 people from Connecticut. Come on people I know your out there :-)

Goonga Ron and gconjr were also supposed to come to the meet. We made a few calls to Ron, we were getting worried he wouldn’t be able to make it but he did come with Gadget.

Klynch13 and Paula came along with their new addition to the family, Alexandra. She was absolutely beautiful and so quiet. They came this year in their Element.

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/albums/fdr05/P7300897a.sized.jpg

Gconjr also brought along an extra car like he had said. His father and him both have 1st gens. Gconjr’s is quite modified with a Mugen body kit, a JDM mirror, and a few other accouterments. His Dad had a nice gold 1st gen.

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/albums/fdr05/IMG_2241.sized.jpg

Joey RR’s red 1st gen rivaled Rudy’s impeccable cleaning job of his black 1997 1st gen. Ron and I, I think were going for dirtiest CR-Vs.

Blueiedgod was the only one with a 2005 model. We spanned the years, 1997-2005.

There was plenty of food to go around. There were hot dogs grilling, plenty of chips and dip, along with a good assortment of cookies.
Everyone chatted and mingled. Blueiedgod got to use his RC cars. KLynch13 brought along his too.

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/albums/fdr05/IMG_2275.sized.jpg

At one point it became an Apple PowerBook meet, as Jimmie had brought his 17” PowerBook, I had my 15” PowerBook with me and HondaCRVerde brought his 12” PowerBook. But not to worry PC fans, Perro Loco and Blueiedgod had their laptops out too.

New to NEMC Meets this time:
• GConjr and Dad?
• Joey RR?
• Jimmiegrillo (he came to a very informal meet previously)

And as with any meet we have the digital cameras were out snapping away pictures. Canon, Olympus and Nikon were represented.

HondaCR-Verde brought along his dog Brad, who kept everyone entertained with laughs and the “awwwws”.

Around 6:30-7:00 everyone started packing up and heading out. There were a few of us left and HondaCRVerde was giving a nice tour and demo of his DVD system and sub setup, when the unthinkable happen. His doors locked with the car running and the keys in the ignition. Don’t ask how, we spent 90 minutes waiting for AAA to show, trying to figure that out.

Perro Loco and Beth kindly enough lent HondaCRVerde their AAA, and he called. They said, “oh we’ll have someone right out”. Time goes by, we’re all sharing good stories and laughing.

We stopped the park police, none of them have a coat hanger or a device to get into the car. Beth and I stopped one of the maintenance people seeing if maybe they did. Notta.

AAA calls around 8:40 saying, “They tried the police but they can’t help (well no duh) and they were dispatching a tow truck”. Meanwhile another state park police cruiser with two cops came by and gave us some crap about not telling them. They offered to help until they heard it had side airbags.

http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/albums/fdr05/IMG_2278.sized.jpg

So back we went to the mercy of the two truck driver. At 8:55pm HondaCRVerde gave up. He taped up the back passenger (unmovable) small panel. Then used a lug wrench I had and busted through to get into the CR-V.

Afterwards we all high tailed it out of there. At 9:20 HondaCRVerde got a call from the tow truck driver confirming the location before he left to come help us. Unreal huh!

All in all, a great meet. And hey while HondaCRVerde is out a window, we got to visit a bit longer and share some laughs.

Enjoy the pictures - full Gallery here. (http://www.criana.com/crv/nemc/gallery/fdr05)

CRIANA


P.S. Don’t forget - Fall Foliage Trip in the Berkshires - October 1, 2005

[skyout]

CRIANA,
That is so cool. Thanks for sharing the pics. Sorry to hear about the window. Looks like you guys had a great time. Little Alexandra is so cute. I really miss little ones around the house (except some of it, crying, pooping etc.), they really make your life a joy. Thanks again for putting out the pics of what really looks like a great day.

[Goonga Ron]

That was a great write up and thanks for not mentioning that I was the last one there. It's always fun to meet up with you guys. I forgot my camera but I'm glad that everyone else was snapping away.

Until next time...

[blueiedgod]

Diana, good job capturing the whole event. It was nice to see the same faces and some new ones. We can't wait for the Foliage tour. Hoping to get some locals to come along. Come on Toronto!!!!

[klynch13]

Di, You should have called me. I have a slim jim. I could've got the doors open in 10 minutes. Wish I could've helped. I'm was only 15 minutes away.

Nice write up btw.

[Rudy]

Diana,
Nice job with the right-up.
That is a great panarama shot, got my car right in the middle.
Joe's other half's name is Deanna.
That picture of me sucks, next time warn me i'll suck in my belly.
Again a great day.

Rudy

[CRIANA]

Di, You should have called me. I have a slim jim. I could've got the doors open in 10 minutes. Wish I could've helped. I'm was only 15 minutes away.

Nice write up btw.

damn...never would have thought.

I have one too, but it's buried in a box in my basement. Doing me alot of good. LOL.