Alberta regional protege meet!
 

Who would be up for this? red deer seems like a good central meeting point, besides is a nice little city. I'm thinkig that september 7 or 8 would be a good time as it is one week after long weekend and would give everyone plenty of time to book time off if need be. If no on else is up for it I will just drive up and hang out at the mary browns chicken parking lot with my hood up and a lonesome tear in my eye.!???!. uh yeah

Okay I'm game. I would think that 7th Sept. would be better as it is a Saturday. How about someone scouting to get some ideas on places or is there anyone from Red Deer on the board? Parking lots are good but Saturdays most places are still open with the exception of industrial businesses. Gasoline alley is probably out of the question as it is quite busy or maybe an out of the way corner at one of those businesses there.

As for booking time off, err, I don't think we will have to as it is only an hour and a half from Edmonton and a Saturday.

I have some freinds in red deer who could probably scout something out for me iwill talk to them this weekend about it.

Cool, I also have a friend in RD who works at Century Sales. Hmmmm, wonder where they are and is their parking lot closed. Probably in the industrial area. Not good. I should drop him a line also and get another set of eyes going. May have to explain the situation though.

i might be able to make it. sept 7 or 8 works ok for time.

i'd like to have my calipers painted by then but between moving and seattle vacations i doubt i will have the time.

so my car will look the same. :zzzzz:

I would be the same as Alco but maybe after the meet I could find the time to paint my calibers too! Otherwise count me in! :D Just state the location and time.

Wow, Richard what a great idea. That's why you get paid the big bucks :D.

Funny you should mention that dealership as my neighbour just told me about it last night. He is a truck driver and he was coming back from Calgary last night and said he saw my yellow zoom zoom in Red Deer at a dealership. However he said there was only one yellow but it was at the end of about a dozen P5s in a rainbow of colours. Of course I asked him about the new blue but he does not know or remember. The last time I was through RD it was not finished as yet so it's good to know.

As for using that dealership, I would think we would have to contact them. I think it is a perfect place and maybe would be great promotion for them as well.

Aw man!!

Sounds like a total blast, but you couldn't have picked a worse day for me!! Well, actually, you could have picked the next weekend. That would have been worse..

First three weeks of september are definitly out of the question for me. I get married on the 14th, so I have a wierd feeling that I'll be pretty busy up till that point.

Next time!!! :D

Okay so I hate waiting so I went ahead and contacted the dealership in Red Deer. I spoke to one of the sales guys there as the manager was busy and I floated the idea of the meet there and he thought it was a great idea. He will pass it on to his manager and he will give me a call back asap. I said it would be a beneficial thing for both of us and a perfect fit. Let's see what they say. Hmm, maybe we can get them to do some judging a la some sort of Show & Shine and award prizes. Now there's a thought.

Jason, congrats again. Now here are my words of wisdom after many years of marriage; learn to say these two words "Yes dear" :D.

And Richard, congrats on your anniversary too.

so that weekend doesn't work. like i said i am up for it any weekend that isn't 24/25 aug. so pick another date

damn i work 7 days a week so i can only go for those meets that are at 7:00 or later.. and even then.. i still can't make those sometimes becuase of my 2nd job LOL sorry won't be able to make a Red Deer Meet
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Yeah i am ok for the seventh!!!

Although it sux becuase i have to go up to Red Deer on the 5th for work....

Oh well... Any weekend is good for me after Aug 24th....
But there is no point of doing this unless we can get a good turn out!!!

LOL.. hilarius man!! :D Speaking from experience?

Thanks for the congrats guys!! I'm gettin pretty damn excited!!

Spoken like a true veteran!! ;)

And yes - congrats to you Rich! It seems there are so few marriages these days that make it beyond the 2 year barrier. I know Shell and I will be lifers! :cool:

Somebody just pick a day and who ever can show should.

0k september 1st is the day if you can't make it so be it

oh crap I work on sundays... :o( how about the 31st?? yeah yeah yeah then I MIGHT be able to make it..
any weekend after the 24th is good jsut as long as it's not a sunday..

Saturdays are a write-off for me. Work gets in the way of SO much these days...

Is this the 'for sure' date. If it is then cool. Let's make it the 1st then. What about September 2nd? That's a monday. It is a holiday for me. If not, the 1st it is.

September 1st! Be there...

The long weekend is not good for me....

I'll bet other people have plans for that weekend too. I liked the sound of the weekend after though (Sept 7 or 8). It doesn't look like everybody is gonna be able to make it on any given day...anyway, if you have it on the 1st, I hope y'all take lots of pics!!! :D

Whoa Nellie!!! As I said in my last post I have spoken to the dealer in Red Deer so why not wait to hear back from him which should be today. Plus Long weekend is probably toast for most people.

just said sept 1st to get back on topic and end the indeciseivness, but it did not seem to work. anyway I'll go whenever.

Alright. We all wait to hear from the RD dealer then decide.

Yeah i Just made other plans for the long weekend!!

The first sux for me too!!

how about everyone just drive to calgary? :)
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same reason everyone in Calgary isn't jumping at the change to Drive to edmonton might as well pick a central location.. :D

Whoo Hoooo we be meeting!!!!

I finally got the call back from the Sales Manager at Gary Moe Mazda in Red Deer. No problem meeting on September 7th. I asked about the Sunday but they are not open.

At the moment because he is so busy with getting the dealership up and running he is not able to do too much for us aside from giving us the space. However, he would like to do something with us in the future. I suggested something along the lines of maybe having prizes for the best Protege and best P5. Maybe a placque or some such thing and he said sure.

So bottom line is that we are in. Red Deer look out :p. Hey would that not look cool with a line of P5 and Poteges coming from Edmonton and Calgary. It would look like some of their ads :D.

Sounds great!! Now all I have to worry about is getting the danged bugs off that I know are gonna collect from the highway drive!!

How bout the Calgary crew all meet in the morning say at 8-8:30am at McMahon Stadium?

Oh yeah, meeting times woould be a good idea. I suggested mid morning around 10 or 11 am. Maybe we can all get some lunch after in Red Deer. Do you want fries with that? :p I'm kidding, no burgers for me.

So between 10 and 11 am on September 7th at Gary Moes Madza, Gasoline Alley in Red Deer.

8:30 on a saturday morning? Are you outta your mind?? :D LoL!!!!

As much as I'll hate getting up early, I think that's a good time and place. I'm in.

And I'm hoping the cookies will be coming too? :D

Did someone say cookies :D.

At our last meet in Edmonton, I supplied the drinks. I had a cooler in the back of my P5 and people helped themselves. No beer as we did not want to get into trouble.

Mike, off topic but I hear your area is expecting snow tonight.

i'm there

i'll try and be there.... maybe my boss will be kind and let me off that day, i should have the rest of my mods done too!
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I will have to see if the cookies want to come. The brownies might want to instead. But I would feel bad because no one will probably want to talk to them...

ANYONE HAVE DIRECTIONS TO THE DEALER IN RED DEER? or would people from edmonton wanna meet somewhere like south edmonton commons the nhead out all ina group?? then no one gets lost?? just a thought we should be in, then we can see our friends and their baby..

just thinking that it might be more convenient for the people form calgary to meet up at deerfoot mall due to the fact that it is on the way out. just a thought. and who for cow town is coming for sure? Bringing passengers?

I am coming but with who I don't know.

If all goes smoothly, I shouldn't have a problem coming to the meet. Not sure if the GF is coming or not...she still thinks I'm strange for meeting w/ pro owners from the internet.

Then I am not so sure we want to meet her! JJ:nono: