Date:

17 Oct 2021

Location:

Oakbank Racecourse

Description:

Well the biggest weekend of the year for the club had finally arrived!! It started on Friday afternoon with a few members making the trip up to Hahndorf to their accommodation for the weekend, we thought this would save us some stress out of the weekend by not driving up and back each day. The members that stayed up had a great dinner at the Hahndorf Inn that night followed by a couple of games of pinball!!

Saturday was all about set up, we arrived around 9am to a lot of busy bees already at it, there was lots of work to do but thankfully, given it was at the racecourse and fully fenced we could get almost fully set up for Sunday and leave it overnight. After a big day we had another great dinner with great company at Haus, with the club picking up the bill.

Heavy fog greeted us early on Sunday morning which made the short drive to Oakbank very interesting, was this a sign of how the day was going to go? Once we arrived, we set up what we had left over from the previous day, the fog lifted and we started on the club display. Everyone chipped in and before you knew it we were all done, it was perfect timing as the gates were about to open and we had to get the entrants through the gates and set up in their areas.

As the day went on there was still plenty of jobs for members to do with judging, manning the gates and public car park, and of course all the behind the scenes jobs which nobody sees. The amount of work that everyone put in was monumentous and the day seemed to run very smoothly.