We sure managed to take our events to new levels of excitement!
Great MINI friends, nice atmosphere in the historic Decker Hotel, good food, fun and games, watching Shrek on the big outdoor screen — and (oh by the way) how about an F1 tornado that managed to pass within a half-mile of our dinner location in Maquoketa?
Thankfully we and our MINIs emerged completely unscathed save for a previously anticipated rain washing, and the weather cleared dramatically allowing us great conditions for the movie. Our loitering at the hotel while waiting for the rain to pass facilitated an unplanned, rousing game of Apples-to-Apples (TM) in the hotel lobby!
It was great to welcome our new friends Leslie and Jim into the EIM fold!
Help yourself to our photos from this outing, posted in the Gallery or available directly via the following link:
Join us for an evening of Iowa MINI fun at the EIM Dinner and 61-Drive In Theater to be held on Saturday, June 5th in Maquoketa. We’re planning for a 5:00 pm dinner bell at the historic Decker Hotel and Restaurant followed by a short drive to the 61-Drive In Theater for the evening’s featured movies. Bring your blanket for relaxing, games, etc. prior to the movie, and a portable radio to listen to the show.
Those with NAM accounts please sign up here —> EIM Event Calendar Entry — or just leave a comment to this website posting if you don’t have a NAM account. We’d like to be able to give the restaurant an accurate count prior to our arrival.
Check out this video clip of Jim U. from Willis Auto Campus talking with the EIM group about what Willis Auto has in the works for their new MINI facility. Clip credit: Westergaard Advertising
Thanks to the well-connected folks over at MotoringFile.com for access to this first-of-it’s-kind promotional video of the MINI Cooper Countryman crossover vehicle. The Countryman is expected to debut in the U.S. early next year and will include a version with intelligent all-wheel drive based on BMW’s xDrive technology. The Countryman is only 5″ longer than the Clubman and expected to be near 3000 lbs weight making it a true “mini” among comparable crossovers.
If you’d like to join in fun and casual e-discussion with your neighborhood MINI friends, we encourage you to include the hashtag #easterniowaminis in all of your MINI-related tweets.
At any time while on Twitter you’ll be able to search on #easterniowaminis and see all of the nifty local MINI banter.
Please send your photos to r56minicooper@gmail.com and I will try and rotate them into the header of the site. I want to make sure all our members get to see their MINI in the spotlight.
Please make sure images are a high resolution version so they will fit in the header at decent quality.
If you don’t have any photos you like, make sure to let R56MINICooper know, and he will work with you to take some photos at the next event or schedule a photo shoot some other time!
