Hear ye hear ye...we have the next three GTG's set up on Facebook for those of you who use that as your primary. For the more, shall we say traditional people, they are below.

1st Drive:
Title:Crossfire Drive
When:Sat Jun 30 10:00am – 4:15pm (CDT)
Where:Kimmswick, MO

Meet at the McDonalds at Hwy 44 and Hwy 141 in Valley Park. We will drive about one hour to Kimswick, MO where we will have lunch at the Blue Owl Restaurant at noon. We currently have reservations for twelve, so please let me know how many will be attending as soon as possible in case we need to increase our reservation number.
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2nd Drive:
Title:Horse Races
When:Sat Jul 28 5:00pm – 11:30pm (CDT)
Where:Fairmount Park

If you've never seen horse racing - it's beautiful!!! (Ruth's words, I think it fun and the horses are beautiful )

1st meeting stop will be at McDonalds at 12499 Natural Bridge Rd, Bridgeton, MO (near 270 and St. Charles Rock Road) at 5:00pm.

2nd meeting stop will be at the Waffle House at 3244 W Chain of Rocks Rd, exit 3A (near IL 3 and Hwy 270) around 5:30pm.

3rd meeting stop will be at Fairmount Park, 9301 Collinsville Rd, Collinsville, IL around 6:00pm.

We will have reservations in the Grandstand Boxes. A box seats six and costs $30. Food and drink is available from the concession stands. Racing starts at 7:30pm. Please let me know where you will meet up with us and how many. I have reserved two boxes currently. I can add more if they are available, but need to release ones we don't need a week before.
Fairmount Park Racetrack - Home

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3rd Drive: Yes, this is a weekend trip
(Ruth is still checking to make sure this is a canoe vice float trip)

Title:Canoe Trip
When:Fri Aug 17 1pm – Sun Aug 19, 2012 5pm (CDT)
Where: Dawt Mill

Meet at the McDonalds at Hwy 44 and 141, no later than 1:00pm. We will drive to Dawt Mill in Tecumseh, MO.

You can call 888-884-3298 to reserve your room. There are currently three more rooms reserved under "Ruth Zerface". They are Standard rooms at the Cotton Gin which will sleep four (queen bed and either a trundle bed or sofa sleeper) for $119 a night.

Saturday we have reservations for a canoe trip at 10:00am. They will take us on a short 15 minute drive to the drop off location and it takes about 5 hours to get back. You can purchase a sack lunch for $10 and the cost of a canoe and drop off is $48.20 for two people. There are also three more canoe's reserved. Please make your reservations as soon as possible. If we use up the ones reserved, I can call to try to add more. Rooms and canoes that are not reserved by August 1, I will need to release back to them.
Dawt Mill - enjoy the Ozarks finest fishing, canoeing, camping and lodging


After this third one, we will be going to the Fall Dragon and outside of maybe meeting up for a weekend lunch or dinner, we're not planning anymore drives. That said, we would love to see a number of us from the Gateway Crossfire Group attend. This year we are not going to do our normal week leading up to the Dragon since Gary changed the dates so Kimpossible could attend...we opted to see her vice a week in the area.

If you don't know what the Dragon is, go to the 6th Annual Fall 2012 - Tail of the Dragon GTG - October 5, 6, 7 .