Sunday Ride - Season Opener: April 23rd

[Vespa Club]

Season Opener Ride and Kalaisha Charity Ride Information:

The weather forecast for this weekend still looks very good!
So unless the weather between now and next Sunday changes dramatically our Season Opener Ride and the Kalaisha Watrous Charity Ride will take place as planned this coming Sunday, April 23rd.

We will meet for our ride at Continental Coffee (1806 Commercial Drive, Vancouver) at 11am. Please get your scooters filled up before meeting with the group at the Continental.

Our ride will leave the Continental at 11:30 am and we plan to arrive at the Billy Miner Neighbourhood Pub (22355 River Rd, Maple Ridge) at around 1 pm.

For those of you who want to meet us directly at the Billy Miner, here is a link to google maps for th location:

maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=22355+River+Rd,+Maple+Ridge,+BC&ll=49.213953,-122.603045&spn=0.011606,0.041928&om=1

The Billy Miner is offering a $3 breakfast for.
We will be collecting donations for the Kalaisha Watrous Fund at the Billy Miner.

After brunch at the Billy Miner's our ride will take us to Fort Langley (taking the Albion Ferry). We will stop in Fort Langley for a short time. In Fort Langley you have a chance to explore briefly the towns little boutiques, or coffee and ice cream shops.

We plan to leave Fort Langley around 4pm and take the scenic 96th Avenue country road back to Surrey, and from there via Pattullo Bridge we will ride back to Vancouver where our ride ends at Continental Coffee.

Note:
we initially planned staying for a while at a park in Fort Langley, but our stay would have been very short so that we decided to drop that part of the plan. However, one of our next Sunday rides could take us to a Park, such as Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park ("Georgetown") where we could play Bocci or soccer.

For questions, please feel free to post them in this forum or send them via email to info at vespaclubofcanada dot com.

[Daisy]

Ehhemmmm....you did not mention my cookies....

Bring your change....all funds go to Kalaisha

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIES

[bobskoot]

delia said:

Ehhemmmm....you did not mention my cookies....

Bring your change....all funds go to Kalaisha

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIES

in the words of that 'immortal' poet, what's her name: "so smooth on the tongue, too"

b

[Daisy]

Oh yeah!!!!!

[black_art]

Get a room!

[Daisy]

Fine! hahahaha

[guest]

bump

[ScottyS]

bumpX2

[steiner]

Well it was sure nice to meet all you guys and gals it was cool to finally ride with other scooters. But next time I'm going to have to remember not to pull up behind ScottyS at the ferry I must have inhaled two lungs full of his exhaust, just kidding sort of. Anyways thanks guy's it was fun.
Doug

[scottyk]

Hey kids...good to see you all out my way. Thanks for letting me go home and change scoots. Hopefully you will all get out this way again. There are some awesome rides on this side of the river too...

Scott..

[johnb]

Hello all,

Just wanted to say 'thanks for the ride' - had a great time today.

JohnB
'05 Aprilia SR50F
'00 Honda Dio

[bobskoot]

bernd & delia:

thank you for the perfect day, and also for the good weather that you arranged for us.

you should have seen the expressions on the faces of the Harley guys on the ferry, after our group started our engines. There was blue smoke everywhere.

bob

[black_art]

Noise...smoke and noise.
-B.

[John]

I had a great time riding with everyone today.. ;D
....Really enjoyed all the cookies too.
BTW what's the official tally of the Kalaisha Watrous Fund collected on the ride.

[Roy]

Delia is going to post what we colelcted so far tomorrow, however since you asked.....you guys donated an amazing $160 to the Kalaisha fund!!!!

After being unhappy at work all day not making it to the ride, this was great news and made my day!!!!

THANKS A LOT!!!

Total tally (so far) will follow.

PS: Will ask Delia more often now to bake cookies!

[DD]

Thanks to all who organised the ride; Good cause; Fun ride; Had a hoot. Thank you Mr. & Mrs. Kozak for the hospitality.

[scottyk]

Hey no worries. We'll have another day out here again. I have an awesome ride from here we can do. We could meet at the Wild Duck and go from there. Let me know when there is a weekend open and we'll see what we can do.

Scott

[Inigo's friend]

What a fabulous day!!! Thanks to everyone that came out.

And special thanks to Jimmy and Ska-T for giving Nicole & I a lift back to our scooters... Man, those vintage machines got some shakin' goin' on!

Delia - I seem to have missed the hat passing... will you be sending that money South before next weekend?

I also managed to look up all those vintage army brat photos - there's some classics - if someone (Delia?!) can give me instructions on how to post to the club photo page, I'll put the worthwhile ones up. Um, I don't know what my login info is either - perhaps e-mail me or pm me?

Cheers.

Vicky

[Daisy]

Hey all

I had just as good a time as everyone and it is nice to read all of the positive feedback here. OMG the weather was fantastic....

I wanted to scoot to work today....damn! Oh well...I will be back soon.

Thanks to all that came out and made it a great time!

D

[Daisy]

plumbabymaybe said:

What a fabulous day!!! Thanks to everyone that came out.

And special thanks to Jimmy and Ska-T for giving Nicole & I a lift back to our scooters... Man, those vintage machines got some shakin' goin' on!

Delia - I seem to have missed the hat passing... will you be sending that money South before next weekend?

I also managed to look up all those vintage army brat photos - there's some classics - if someone (Delia?!) can give me instructions on how to post to the club photo page, I'll put the worthwhile ones up. Um, I don't know what my login info is either - perhaps e-mail me or pm me?

Cheers.

Vicky

Lift to your scooters? Huh? What did I miss?

Sorry if the hat passing did not make it to you Vicky....but you can still donate until next Sunday. You can either email, or pm Roy to make arrangements to pick up funds, or you can send funds to the Club via paypal (but they will take $1.50 or so in fees).

I will be posting to the main forum later with the tally so far.....

I would be happy to help you post pics Vicky. Can you pm me your phone number and then I will call you say maybe tomorrow night? It is my Moms b-day tonight, so I wont be home.

I dont have your login info, but I could ask Roy to send it to you because I am sure he could look that up for you if you have forgotten it....whatever works.

talk soon
Delia