And the Parties start

Friday, Oct 7

Tonight is the first gathering of the Pottsville Class of '61.  Since we knew the next few days would be busy we spent the day doing household chores.  We won't have a lot of time to get those things done before we leave here.  The weather is clearing up for the next few days.  It is still really cold at night, getting down into the low 40's but the sun is out during the day.  By Sunday is it suppose to get to 80 degrees! I wish the weather would make up its mind. 

The gathering is at the Yuengling Brewery in town.  Now to see how many of his gang Bill remembers.  We drove in and found a parking spot.  I was a little worried about parking as Pottsville, PA is a small town.  They don't really have parking lots, you just find a place on the street.  By the way, the streets are really narrow.  I am glad we have the car with us. 

Heading into the brewery you could hear people enjoying themselves.   Luckily Bill knew the first person we ran into.  It was a fun and interesting evening.  Many people came up with the "I know the face but not the name" line.  Bill was able to reconnect with many people.  We did have a couple of people who thought he was someone named Frank.  Ha Ha. 

We had dinner at the campground restaurant before we headed to the party so we passed on the pizza and snacks that they served.  We did have some birch beer which was good.  You know us, wild party people drinking the hard stuff. 

I forgot to take my camera in so I don't have any pictures of the group.  We did talk to Dick Yuengling.  He is a very nice man.  It was great of him to allow the group to use the brewery for the evening and to supply the beer and other drinks.  We stayed for a couple of hours and then headed home.

All week the campground has been pretty empty.  We haven't had any rigs parked by us and I think there have only been about 8 or so in the entire section.  Well that all changed today.  One after another rigs started arriving.  Mostly there are trailers and 5th wheels.  In fact we were joking that we were the only motorhome in the 40 or so sites in this section.  They finally did put a couple more up here but we are still in the minority.  Everyone is getting ready for a great weekend.  We found out the kids in the park would be trick or treating on Saturday afternoon so we had to stop on our way home from the party to pick up candy.