Home from Waterfest

[vwscir88@hotmail.com (psycho 16v)]

man, with everything that i've heard about this year's waterfest i'm glad i 
wasn't able to make it. .
   hit


>From: Jim Jarrett <jarrett@rpa.net>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>, "list@vwot.org" <list@vwot.org>
>Subject: Re: Home from Waterfest
>Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 21:42:30 -0400
>
>On 7/22/02 8:50 PM, "doug czajka" <scirocco16v@europe.com> wrote:
>
> > I pretty much agree with everything that has been said about waterfest 
>this
> > year.  Here are some of my key points.
> >
>
>Me, too.
>
>Here's my spin.
>
>"WORST WATERFEST, EVER."
>
>This was my 6th Watefest.  As of right now, I'm not going back next year.
>(My mind may change...)
>
>For me, it was just a whole series of things that added up to having the 
>one
>thing I have looked forward to all year be sadly disappointing.
>
>-It RAINED, *A LOT* on the trip down.  I mean A LOT.  We headed out from
>Rochester on Friday, and hit the torrential storms that swept the area
>around Binghamton, and they continued the whole way.  That caused our
>caravan to get badly fragmented, and in fact, Cathy Boyko's son broke down
>and we didn't even know it because we got so separated.  I felt really
>really bad that we didn't stick together....
>
>And all that water caused everyone (except Ben Harder's) car to run like
>crap.  Or uncovered a whole lot of little problems that added up to me
>seriously wanting to just dump my car and get a bone-stock Accord.
>
>-Ramada Hotel #2 SUCKED.  Its location was awful -- nothing within walking
>distance, the rooms were bad, and then the whole bad scene with the 
>burnouts
>and cops and idiots trashing rooms and the pool.  We all started switching
>to it because #1 filled up....I kind of regret that now.  Certainly, being
>with everyone else from the lists (scirocco.org and Volkswagens of Toronto)
>was the point, and I enjoyed that, but it's just not cool to have a bunch 
>of
>cops swarming over the place.
>
>A suggestion (Daun? Jason C?) made was that maybe next year we try to find 
>a
>hotel just for the scirocco.org group....as much fun as the hotel parking
>lot hangout is, I don't think anyone will argue with me that the scene is
>getting worse every year.  Maybe we should just get our own place where we
>can enjoy the best part of that.
>
>-Except for the fact they got moving on the judging right away, it 
>continues
>to be a huge problem.  First of all, they screwed up my class totally,
>putting me in modified Rabbit instead of modified Convertible/Cabriolet.  
>SO
>I know next year to wear a color-coded tube top to score points, I guess.
>(That's an unfair characterization, the car that got 1st place WAS very 
>very
>clean. I'm just bitter and doubting myself now that I really DO have a good
>car).
>
>Now, the venue, the number of cars, the exhibition area, and the number of
>vendors was very, very good.  Not thrilled with $5 burgers, but this was by
>far the best place I think WF has been held.  If they could just find some
>hotels in a nice part of New Jersey....
>
>
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