| I know I've said this before and I'll
say it again, car show season is in full swing around our area, and
around the country. There were a few shows that were on my list that I
really wanted to attend this year and the "Garden Of Angels"
was one of them. This show is held at Yucaipa Regional Park in Yucaipa,
Ca. which is a great place to have a show because it's in a park that
has a bunch of trees and a couple of small lakes. The Garden Of Angels
is a charity car show to benefit the "Safe Arms ~ Safe Haven for
Newborns" that provide a final resting place for abandoned and
unclaimed children.
The show was held on Sunday, July 30 and is open
to all classes. Some of the things they have there are a pancake
breakfast, a huge raffle, 50/50 drawing, oldies music, games,
vendors and food.
The weather around here has been very hot to say
the least and if you remember the last show that I went to, it was
almost too hot to attend but the weather was a little different for this
show.
I like to sleep with the windows open when the
weather permits but lately everyone has had there A/C running day and
night. On the day before the show, the temps came down and the sound of
air conditioners running were once again silent. At about 4:00 am (the
morning of the show), I was
awakened by the sound of the one thing I really didn't want, rain, which
is usually fine by me, but not today because nobody wants that on a car
show day. I got up and stared out the window just looking and listening
to it. I couldn't believe my luck because I thought the show would be canceled.
The gates were scheduled to open at 8 am and we
made plans to be there by 7:45 so at about 7:30, I called Gary to see
what he was going to do. He wasn't ready to go and he didn't know if he
was going at all because of the weather. I told him that I was going to
wait a little bit and see if it stopped raining and he agreed. About 30
minutes later I called Larry to see what he was going to do. Larry was
already at the show and he said that they were going to have the show
and there were a bunch of cars there already. By now it was about 8:30
and I had to make a decision on going or staying so I called Gary again
and he said that it was raining to much and he was going to stay
home.
I asked my wife what she thought and right then,
the rain stopped and she said "lets load up and go" so out I
went and brought the car around to the front. Once we were just leaving
the driveway, it started to come down again. Now this wouldn't be so bad
but I never put any windshield wipers on the car so this was going to be a
fun ride. On my way up the street, one of my buddies happen to be on his
porch and gave me the "what the hell are you doing" look as I
went by. I had to laugh because I didn't know either but there we
went.
To save time, we took the freeway but drove
slowly. The rain really wasn't too bad to drive in despite not having
any wipers. Normally we would've taken the back streets to this area but
today we didn't have time. My wife had to remind me about something I
said awhile back which was, "I thought you said that you weren't
going to drive the car in the rain?" Well, I had to laugh because I
did say that and here I was driving in it. Silly me!!
We arrived at about 9:30 and we had a bit of good
news, it wasn't raining anymore but the bad news was, it started to get
foggy. Once we checked in, we found Larry because he had a spot saved
for us. Good ol' Larry, he's always one of the first to arrive at a car
show and if we happen to show up late, he puts a lawn chair next to his
car for us which holds a spot to park in.
You can see in this shot that the fog is starting
to creep in. Everyone was wiping off their cars but it wasn't any use
because of how damp it was with the drizzle and fog.
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