A relatively easy day - Roc and Scott went to a couple of the early morning seminars, while the majority of us slept in - relatively speaking! We didn't meet for breakfast till 9 a.m. !!!! Elaine gave us an update on Harry. It's not food poisoning, but appears to be an intestinal blockage. They'd done tests and were trying to keep Harry comfortable.

Jerry and Kathy Wickersham went over to the plant so Jerry could run in the autocross competition while Kathy cheered him on. He had three runs and managed to bring his time down each run. He proudly announced that he beat the GrandSport!!!!

I had broken a nail the day before (all you ladies can relate to the urgency of my need) and Joan wanted to get a polish-change - so we recruited Nancy and her rented Blazer to go in search of a nail salon. Meanwhile, our men-folk headed out to find the starting location for one of the many road tours that the local Corvette Club had laid out to entertain all the out-of-staters. We found a salon that took walk-ins on the second try and then went to a local mall to kill some time. We found a cute "get well" card for Harry and decided that a fruit basket or flowers were not a good idea to send to the hospital since we were all on-the-road, but a nice golf shirt from the Museum would be! Having made our card purchase and our decision, we headed back to the hotel to see what was up with our men-folk. We all went back to the Museum to volunteer for a while longer and we picked out a real sharp red shirt with a diagonal white and black stripe for Harry.

Roc had spoken to the dealership in Nitro, WV and learned his car wasn't as bad as they originally suspected. The rear wheel bearing was fine - it was a U-joint that went. The service manager gave Roc his home number and agreed to open the garage on Sunday so he could get his Vette before we started our trip back home. I think Roc and Nancy set a "Longest Distance Driven" record for the NJ Caravan participants!!!!!

2:00 was our scheduled brick-laying ceremony . . . the only one allowed during this busy weekend.

WOW! Did they make us feel special!!!!!

Our club brick is now right smack in the center of the front walkway! Section 40. They removed the large blank brick that was already down as well as nine of the small individual blank bricks right next to it. NCM Executive Director Wendell Strode and Membership Director Stephanie Ferrell were with us for the whole procedure. The officers placed the club brick in the walkway and then one by one we were each handed the rubber mallet and our brick to place in the walkway. We took TONS of photos. Jim said they didn't take as many photos at the last Presidential Inauguration!!!!! We were each given a framed certificate commemorating our personal placement of our club and individual bricks. We then unfurled each of our three caravan banners and Stephanie took our picture - with several of our cameras - holding each of them. We can now send the banners and a photo of them at the Museum to our two big sponsors - Paramus Auto Mall and Harry Green Chevrolet in West Virginia.

We had also purchased a series of bricks in the special 5th Anniversary section of the walkway. It was thrilling to see that our row of bricks runs across the top of this section! We sure do have friends in high places!!!!!

Saturday night was to be a special night out for all the Caravan Captains and their Co-Captains - but it was in Nashville via a mini-caravan !!! Roc had a full day of driving ahead of him for Sunday - and didn't need any more driving tonight - so he and I made an appearance at the Captain's pre-mini-caravan cocktail hour which was in our hotel, and then joined our club members for the evening. This hotel has a huge atrium in the center and we had hung our New Jersey Caravan Banner on the hotel balcony so all the arriving Captains could see it. Several club banners were also on the railings.

Scott had been bitten by the "auction bug" at Carlisle, and decided to stay at the NCM for the evening's auction of special memorabilia. The rest of us made plans to eat dinner as a group (26 in all) at the Montana restaurant. It's only about 1/4 mile from the hotel, so we all walked. Unfortunately, no restaurant takes firm reservations during Corvette events - so we had to wait for tables. We agreed to be broken up into four groups to speed things along - and even at that it took over an hour to get our first table. We were sitting around their massive flagpole garden in the hot, humid heat. They served us ice water and then platters of chips and dip to keep us happy while we waited. I think everyone enjoyed their food. And the service, once you got a table, was great. Little Abbi fell asleep on her Dad's shoulder before it was all over - but the rest of us managed to stay awake :-) We gave Elaine the card and shirt to take over to Harry in the morning.

There could be highlights that I forgot to write down - but I'll report that this is the end of Day Four as I recall it!