June 17, 2006:
MINIsOnTop 2006
This years MINIsOnTop was a fabulous and very successful event – I think we successfully resolved all the previous years glitches, and the weather cooperated almost perfectly too!
Our “headquarters hotel”, the Town & Country Inn, gave us a great room for Friday night and we laid out the many donated prizes for people to see, then ran the Trivia Contest … many many thanks again to all our sponsors, and to Libby & Bill for another successful Trivia night:
Saturday morning, greeted by perfect weather, everyone heads over to the Loon Mountain parking lot; thanks to great volunteer parking coordination, everyone fits!
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Richard once again gives the “drive safe” driver speech, to which everyone listens (though apparently a couple of people don’t hear the words!)
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And then they all head off, on one of three routes, to eventually arrive at the base of Mount Washington where the weather is still great!
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(sorry I was too busy to get pics under the tent!)
After food (which was very successful, feeding 400 people in 40 minutes!), drawing of the two major raffle prizes – and an unexpected additional auction for the JCW since the ticket winner (me!) couldn’t use it – and drawings for the many door prizes, we finally send all the cars to the top of Mount Washington, the only place where the weather is less than perfect with low clouds …
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The “yellow hat” MINIsOnTop volunteers get a group pic right at the top of the mountain:
And finally, MOT2006 comes to an end … with 250 MINIs and 500 very happy MINI folks 
Visit this MINI2 thread where MINIsOnTop was planned and where now, pictures are being posted.
