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SUMMARY:Middleburg Christmas Parade
DESCRIPTION:Submitted by Bill Marshall \nWe joined with our friends of the MG Car Club on December 4th to participate in the annual Middleburg Christmas Parade. Unlike last year’s shortened event in a sloppy snow\, this year’s was held under sunny skies with a brisk chill in the air – capturing the flavor of the season in Virginia Hunt Country. \nWith Charlie and Alana’s MGA still down for head repairs\, they generously volunteered to drive my MGB GT in the parade\, giving it some much needed miles as it has been rather neglected this year. Charlie picked up it Friday to take it to their home for a bit of polishing and in pure MG fashion\, the battery went dead overnight and would not start Saturday morning without some added juice provided by jumper cables. \nOnce on the road they met Karen and me in Manassas and we were off to Middleburg to meet with the 11 other MGs gathered for the event. Joining us there were Bob and Jane Schoeplein in Jane’s MGB and Jim Mackin\, filling out the roster of MGAs at two. As we parked at our designated staging area at the American Legion Hall\, we advised Charlie to park in a downhill direction in case a push-start was required. We then began the task of decorating the cars in the holiday spirit and waited for our slot to be called as we socialized in the parking lot. \nAnd yes\, as we were called to line up\, Charlie signaled for a push – a task that would be repeated throughout the remainder of the day. \nIt is unfortunate we don’t get to actually see the parade as it seems the whole town turned out for the event. Spectators filled both sides of the four blocks of the parade route and this year we got as many compliments on our funky Santa hats as we did the MGA. We also discovered our group followed a group of horses as their path was … ah …“documented” throughout the parade route. \nAfter the parade was over we returned to Middleburg by circumnavigating the back roads of the outskirts of town as the main roads continued to be closed to traffic. Once finding our way back to the American Legion Hall for parking\, we joined the MGCC members for lunch at Julien’s Café and Restaurant where the club organizers Jim and Jane Byers had made reservations. This is a delightful way to spend a December Saturday morning and I encourage all to mark their calendars for December 3\, 2011.
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SUMMARY:Middleburg Christmas Parade
DESCRIPTION:Submitted by Bill Marshall \nOur driving activity for the month of December was planned to take advantage of the MG Car Club’s participation in the Middleburg Christmas Parade on Saturday\, December 5th. \nThe MGCC has participated in this parade for a number of years and many of us have attended to showoff our MGAs to the crowd of spectators the parade attracts. \nThis year things were moving along just fine with 14 MGs signed up to take part in the Parade. As always MGCC hosting members Jim & Jane Byers made reservations at the Coach Stop restaurant for the group to relax after the completion of the event and to enjoy lunch with our fellow MG enthusiasts. \nJim added a little something special this year to bring forth a bit of that Christmas spirit with the addition of snow! Our plans had been to drive the MGA making the MGB GT available for Charlie and Alana Adams to use as his newly acquired MGA (yes – a second one) still needed a once over before hitting the road. The snow caused many to leave their cars safely in their garages and led us to scrap our plans to drive the MGA. Charlie and Alana were not eager to venture out in a borrowed MG in the snow so Karen and I decided the now-available B would be warm and dry changed plans once again. \nUndaunted by the snow and being assured by Jim the parade would continue despite the weather\, we loaded the MGB GT with our “display” packages and headed off to Middleburg to join the die-hards we knew would be there. \nOnce at the American Legion Hall staging area we were greeted by Jim and Jane and we quickly determined the two cars would be the sole representatives of the MGCC for this year and that the parade would move forward rather quickly as many of the marching bands and other participants made the choice to look forward to 2010. As our turn in line came\, Jim and I decided to use an in-line formation that would “stretch out” the cars rather than the traditional side-by-side formation typically used. Despite the weather there were many spectators lining the streets and we made our way down Washington Street to the cheers of admiration of the cars\, bright flashbulbs and of course the calls of “I had one just like that in ….” \nWith the parade moving quickly we finished well before our 1 pm lunch reservation\, and after some consideration decided heading home before the snow got deeper was the wise choice to make. \nThe Middleburg Christmas Parade is an enjoyable event and we encourage all to mark the calendars for December 4\, 2010 and make plans to join us – with snow tires being optional!
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CATEGORIES:Middleburg Christmas Parade,Socials
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