Hotel info here

While I was hoping to have the tentative schedule I handed out at the Fall Dragon this will have to suffice until this evening when I can get it off the wife's PC. (she's still sleeping while I've been up a while and already painted a door and frame prior to showering and heading to work and no I won't paint for you)


Having looked at the reservations that are being made starting the 22nd, I felt it necessary to get this out there ASAP.

We are planning on having a 7am meet and greet breakfast prior to starting some some drives for the day. There are also plans to have a farewell dinner on the evening of the 24th. Considering these two things, some of you who have already made reservation may want to change your plans; others may want to plan accordingly.

We do not have the costs nailed down as yet because we are trying to keep them reasonable while maintaining convenience by having it at the hotel vice 5 miles away. The GCG planning group is holding a meeting this Thursday to make some decisions on the the activities being planned.

Sorry if this has or will cause any burdens on you fine folks.

 

Ok folks, here is what we definitely have planned with the exception of the times being tentative depending on group size. Other activities are still pending finalization.
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Hermann 6-23-10 (Wed) or 6-24-10 (Thur)

Leave Harrah’s at 9:00, tour cellars, lunch at 12:00, Route to Hermann (Hwy 70 to Exit 188 Hwy B) 66 miles, 1 hour 20 minutes

Harrah’s to Hermann - Driving Direction


Hermann Lunch, Cellar Tour and Wine Tasting - $21

GERMAN-STYLE SCHNITZEL - House specialty! A breaded pork cutlet, served with a delicious sour cream dill sauce. Accompanied by German potato salad and braised red cabbage

OR

BREAST OF CHICKEN BAVARIAN - Grilled, boneless breast of chicken, topped with a zesty lemon caper sauce and served with steamed vegetables and wild rice

Also includes: Cheese and cracker appetizer, rolls and butter, Frau Held’s apple cake with coffee glaze topped ala mode and iced tea or coffee (Tax and gratuity also included.)






Stone Hill Winery

Leave Hermann at 1:30, return route to Montelle Winery (Hwy 94) approximately 47 miles, 1 hour 5 minutes

Hermann to Montelle Winery Driving Direction





Choice of: stay and relax at Montelle Winery or visit Daniel Boone’s home – video and tour at 3:15, return to Montelle at 4:45 $6.00

5:00 Leave Montelle Winery for return to Harrah’s 28 miles, 40 minutes

Montelle Winery to Harrah’s
(route may have to change as there may be road construction - we will monitor and provide appropriate map information before trip)


Reservations, payment and menu selections will be due by June 1.
More information on that after the New Year, so please wait to provide your choice of day, menu, and side trip (D. Boone) information.

 

Second Installment - Downtown St. Louis Sightseeing (Thursday 24 Jun)

As I previously stated, we looked into parking but feel with the potential size of the group it will be very hard to park close enough for the venues as a group. By the time you pay for parking and fight the rush hour traffic, we thought bus transportation would be best. If we don't have at least 35 people for this trip, we will need to alter the trip without bus service.


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DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS
SIGHTSEEING TRIP

Bus Transportation included.

Itinerary:

8:00 Leave Harrah’s
9:00 Arrive Anheuser Busch Brewery
9:15 Check in for Anheuser Busch Brewery Tour
11:30 Return to Gateway Arch grounds
12:00 Mississippi River Cruise with box lunch
1:30 Trip to the top of the Gateway Arch
3:00 Movie “Monument to the Dream”, the building of the Gateway Arch
3:45 Museum, Old Courthouse or carriage ride (carriage ride is an additional fee)
5:00 Leave for return to Harrah’s

Estimate: $55 for bus, brewery tour, cruise, box lunch, tram to the top of the arch and movie

Anheuser Busch Brewery Tour

Gateway Arch

One Hour Riverboat Cruise

Box lunch

Old Courthouse

Arch Museum







Reservations, payment and menu selections will be due by June 1.
More information on that after the New Year.

 

This "installment" of information is to let you know about the welcome breakfast and farewell dinner we are planning. There will be no other scheduled events during this breakfast and dinner. This is for the whole group to have time together and celebrate these great cars.



Event Package $60


Includes:


Welcome Breakfast Buffet,
June 22 8:00 – 9:00am (Harrah’s) - Use of the room until 11:00am
Everyone will also receive a “Welcome to the 1st Crossfires Across America” packet.


Buffet includes: Farm Fresh Scrambled Eggs, Cinnamon French Toast with Warm Maple Syrup, Buttermilk Biscuits with Sausage Gravy, Hickory Smoked Bacon, Sausage Links and Home Fried Potatoes, Seasonal Fruit, Freshly Baked Breakfast Pastries and Breads, Fresh Fruit Juices, Coffee and Hot Teas, Tax and Gratuity

(will change to a plated breakfast if numbers grow too large)




Farewell Dinner Buffet,
June 24 6:30pm – 10:00pm (Heart of St. Charles) - Dinner to begin at 7:00pm
Cash bar available


Includes: Dinner Rolls and Butter, House Salad, Roasted Round of Beef Au Jus, Roasted Breast of Turkey, Red Skinned Potatoes in Butter Sauce, Green Beans Almondine and Carrots Amaretto, Coffee, Tea and Soda, Tax and Gratuity

Directions to Heart of St. Charles 10 minutes, 5 miles from Harrah’s





As with all previous activities - reservations and payment will be due by June 1. More information to follow after the New Year.


Vendors - space will be made available at both events for vendors. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact me by PM.

 

River City Rascals Baseball,

Tues., June 22, 2010 7:05pm,

Rascals vs. Southern Illinois Miners from Marion, IL
Baseball the way it used to be played.



Cost: $22 Reservations will be due by June 1, more info in January for sign-ups
Includes: Admission to the game Party Deck and dinner buffet to include two meats, two sides, dessert and soda beginning at 6:05pm until the third inning.


Get this, we will also include lining up at 6:15 and showing off your car on a parade around the field at 6:30! We will be going slow enough that there should be no issues with flying debris...just how often do you have the opportunity to parade your cars around like this? Should be fun.




Party Deck Area






View from the Party Deck



Directions to the Ballpark

 

Sorry all, pictures won't be included on any of the schedule posts given the problems. (don't have that many anyway)

Clarksville, MO Drive –
Tuesday, June 22 or Wednesday, June 23


Leave at 10:30, Lunch and wine tasting at
Crown Valley Port House 12:00, Clarksville, MO
64 miles, 1 hour 30 minutes

Harrah’s to Crown Valley

Leave Crown Valley 2:00 to Pere Marquette,
75 miles, 1 hour 40 minutes, short bathroom stop

Crown Valley to Pere Marquette

Leave Pere Marquette 4:00 to Harrah’s,
42 miles, 55 minutes

Pere Marquette to Harrah’s

Cost: $20, includes all-you-can-eat buffet lunch at Crown Valley and wine tasting with souvenir wine glass. Buffet lunch includes salad, turkey wraps, cheeseburgers, pizza, chips and dessert.

 

Racing – Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Drag Racing - Tuesday June 22 gates open @ 2pm exclusively for the
"Crossfire Across America" participants, time runs/racing from 3pm - 5pm.
Costs will be $30 per driver and $10 per spectator. All NHRA rules will apply, example: cars running 13.99 and under are required to wear helmets that meet NHRA requirements and so on. You will be able to stay longer when the track opens to the public, or return for the Rascals game.

These fees will be paid directly to the racetrack.

Directions to Gateway from Harrah’s

Gateway International Raceway


Future activity: Please be watching the forum for a poll on possible oval track or autocross racing on Wednesday evening. Currently those details are still being worked on and should it become a reality, we will post it later as an option depending on the interest and availability.

 

Time to Sign-up for the 1st Crossfires Across America

Please download and complete the attached Order Form, one per person.
If you have another person you want to do activities with, please include their name.
If they select the same activities as you, we will keep you together.
If the person is your spouse, please indicate that and you will definitely be together, unless you select different activities


Details for the events are listed above.
Activities are filled on a first come, first serve basis.
If an event fills, we will try to arrange for more spaces.
All activities are listed for the days they are available.
Highlight or bold your selections of what you would like to do.
Then email to: rjzerf@stlgcg.org or mail to: GCG, PO Box 403, Wentzville, MO 63385.

We will then email you an invoice and reserve your requests for two weeks.
Payments can be made by check to “GCG” for the amount due or through PayPal.
Send paypal payments to: gcg@stlgcg.org

When using PayPal, please select personal for your payment type.
Also, there are two types of payment methods. If you use the bank account there is no fee. If you use credit card, then we ask that you pay the fees.

Remember, if you want to do the Tuesday racing, you will pay the track directly, but please indicate on your form if you want to do this so we can have an idea of how many participants.

Possible racing may be available on Wednesday evening. We will provide more information on that as it is available.

Just remember nothing is a confirmed reservation until payments are received.
All payments must be received no later than June 1, 2010.
Requests for refunds prior to June 1, 2010 will be honored minus a $10 processing fee.

No refunds will be given after June 1, 2010.

 

Here is another version (PDF) for those who may not be able to view/open a Word file.

 

Just a reminder to everybody to please look over the items and fill out your paperwork and send it in. Just sending in a payment w/o paperwork will just be a conversation piece

 

There are only 13 days left to have your activities selected and paid for. Please get those forms turned in and paid as soon as possible.



As a reminder, racing and the SRT Raffle are paid separately.

 

UPDATED INFO HAS BEEN POSTED ABOUT THE RACING OPTIONS FOR THE CAA MEET IN ST. LOUIS

TUESDAY
1/4 mile drag racing at the track starts at 2:30 in the afternoon

WEDNESDAY
Road Racing and Oval track runs will be available on Wednesday evening.
Starts at 5:00 PM and runs till 9:00.


See all the details here: Caa Racing (post 22)

 

Texas T would like to make name tags for everyone attending the CAA GTG in St. Louis
He would like to put persons first name, color and type of car, area are group they are from and forum name with first name most prominent.

Send this info to Texas T so he can make a name tag for you to wear.



Here is what a name tag he made for the Dragon GTG looks like ..

 

Folks, we only have a couple of days left to complete the activities lists and solidify the numbers with the various locations. I meet first with Harrah's on Tuesday to discuss parking and the breakfast numbers.

 

-C-I-C-C-I Sponsored Crossfire Car show at the racetrack on Wednesday night !!!

For anyone who wants to participate in the car show ..you will need to be at the race track in St.Louis on Wednesday night.
You are not required to race or participate in any track event but you must have your Crossfire present for the voting.
Your VIN number will be written on the ballot to tabulate the votes.
CICCI will provide a first, second and third place winner award.

The GCG has permission from the track to hold this show at the track.
Track time is 5:00pm until dusk (9:00pm

 

NOTICE TO ALL PROCRASTINATORS
- yes we've had some up to today.

Our various activity vendors have been very accommodating but this is the zero hour.

If you want to do any of these activities, you absolutely must have your form submitted and PayPal processed by 0900 / 9:00am Central Daylight Savings Time.

Please note, you must follow the directions on submission via email. Given we are beyond the deadline by many days, I am not guaranteeing anything but we will do our best to process everything prior to our going to bed 10:00 - 11:00 (you know the time zone).

Very Important: If you don't have a PayPal account already set up, you are more than likely out of luck giving their verification process; especially if setting up a bank/checking method. Otherwise the only way I see it possible is to have someone who does, do it for you.

You might want to have a bottle of Woodford Reserve Bourbon handy as a gift to that person...
(I found that to be pretty good stuff when we were at their distillery this past weekend; should have bought one but only so much room in my XF as we were attending a wedding.)

 

I just got the car show awards in the mail from the CICCI club store.
These are some very nice awards and reference CAA on them so I encourage everyone to plan on coming out to the track on Wednesday night for the car show and maybe you will win a 1rst, 2nd or 3rd place award from CICCI.

 

Similar to other meets, we are planning to have the group photo at the Gateway Raceway on Wed. I recommend everybody head to the track after our drives and get in the picture. Just to remind you, the only fee will be if you decide to run the track.