Premier Viper Event 2008

[2snakes4us]

Here are some shots and a video from the Premier gathering.

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[RTTTTed]

Yup, there's a few Vipers there all right.

Ted

[vipergirl]

That was an AWESOME weekend! And the weather was PERFECT! Having Herb-the Grailkeeper there with us for the entire weekend was just the icing on the cake!

We had 79 attendees register for this event and we counted up the cars in the Premier lot and had:

38 Vipers
1 Viper Truck
1 Prowler
2 Corvettes
2 Mustangs
1 Lotus
2 Acuras

We had 75 people in attendance at the dinner show that evening aboard the Branson Belle Showboat. The dinner and the show was great! The ventriloquist Todd Oliver, with the talking dogs were my favorite!

I'm working on getting all my photos uploaded now- so I'll be posting some soon! Got some great shots of the cruise, the hotel, etc..

[mike & juli]

WHAT a turnout...great pics 2snakes4us (LOVE that username~! )
And, nice write-up also vipergirl! ~juli

[KURT E]

Nice pics. I am bummed that I could not be there. Big thanks to Tim and Dawn for all of the time and effort they invest in making this such a good event.

What were you standing on for when you were taking pics and vid?

Kurt E

[vipergirl]

They had a ladder we stood on to get some great photos from up above! I've got a great photo that shows all the attendees that came in one group photo- I'll post it in a bit- I'm still downloading them all- I have like 300+ pictures total!

[RX VIPER]

What a super weekend with almost 40 Vipers and their great owners. Here are a few pics from Saturday:

Stopped for gas on the way down


Bill with Chris at Premier



Tim handing over the mic



Premier cruise to Branson



another cruise shot on the way to Branson



Great view out the hotel window



Hotel pool and lake view



White mamba with the Missouri countryside



Steph and I on the riverboat crusie



Nice hat Bill. Why are you hiding the matching handbag to go with it? Awe we still love ya!

[vipergirl]

Here are some more pictures from the event:













And we had a GREAT HERB Experience while we were there! Dave and Amy accidently locked their keys inside the trunk of their snake. Herb picks up his phone and calls his "contact" and gets under the hood and uses a speaker wire to spark a prong and the next thing you know..POP goes the trunk! It was awesome! Here are some photos of that:









If anyone wants to view all 300+ photos I took, go to this link:
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[Venomiss]

Just got through looking at all the pictures-WOW! Great photos of cars, plates, hotel, dinner cruise, breakfast and someone's really cool snakeskin custom car!

Thank you and Tim for putting on this event and next year I promise not to miss!!!!!

These are awesome!!!!!

From Dawn the link:
If anyone wants to view all 300+ photos I took, go to this link:
Kodakgallery.com Join now and receive beautiful photographic prints from your camera

[vipergirl]

[quote=Venomiss;2592084]Just got through looking at all the pictures-WOW! Great photos of cars, plates, hotel, dinner cruise, breakfast and someone's really cool snakeskin custom car!


Yeah, I absolutely LOVE that snakeskin car- it is SWEET! Wish it were mine! Someday I might just have to have one of those! But I'm very glad someone in our KC club got one so I can at least drool over it when he brings it around.

[LittleFish]

Correction: Dave dropped the keys in the trunk, Amy wasn't involved in that part. Did anyone take highway 125 back home?

[Venomiss]

Originally Posted by LittleFish

Correction: Dave dropped the keys in the trunk, Amy wasn't involved in that part. Did anyone take highway 125 back home?

First off you have my respect for admitting the keys in the trunk.

Second, that highway was the topic of discussion at the meeting last night and at our house when hubby came home from the weekend.
So I looked it up and found this write up about highway 125 from bike riders......here it is. Read until the end.

Today, believe it or not, was one of the best days of the trip. Day 24 was, in many ways, a microcosm of the entire trip. Bill managed to find some fabulous roads. We met the most memorable person of the entire journey. We faced mechanical problems. We took a ferry trip. We reached 6,000 total miles. And we had a great lunch in a restaurant located on the court square in Mountain Home, Arkansas.
We left Branson (if you've ever been to Branson you know that's the best part) early in search of good roads. Bill, who enjoys a long visit with a detailed map, pointed us toward Missouri's Highway 125. We found it quickly and just as quickly found ourselves in heaven. If you ignore the scenery, the altitude and all the other sensory attributes of any given road, and focus solely on the road and the bike, Highway 125 was the best of the trip. It was replete with incredible twisties that throughly tested our skills as riders (which are admittedly intermediate, at best) to the fullest. We began in Sparta, Missouri, and followed the road into Protem, Missouri. It was a roller coaster on two wheels and we had a blast.
Riders in North Carolina like to brag about a section of Highway 129 known as the Tail of the Dragon. It is reputed to be probably the best motorcycle road in America. We've ridden both, and we disagree. We'll take Missouri's Highway 125 any day.

[vipergirl]

First of all: Dave I'm very proud of you for coming forth and admitting your guilt and that Amy had no involvement! You're a good, honest guy! I knew I liked you for a reason.

Second: That 125 route was absolutely unbelievable!!! That's is by far the best roads we've ever drove on! Hats off to you Dave for showing us city folks how much fun those country roads can be. We'll definitely be cruising those roads more in the years to come- both in our car and on our motorcycle!

[vipergirl]

Here is the front and back of the t-shirts I designed for the Premier Weekend. Mary had asked me to post pictures of it.

[Venomiss]

Originally Posted by vipergirl

Here is the front and back of the t-shirts I designed for the Premier Weekend. Mary had asked me to post pictures of it.

Thank you for posting what's on the T's! They turned out very nice.

[2snakes4us]

Another fastastic road to drive on is Hwy 76 between Hill city and Cape Fair Missouri. its a roller coaster of banked turns. and very senic. give a try if ever down that way.

Originally Posted by vipergirl

First of all: Dave I'm very proud of you for coming forth and admitting your guilt and that Amy had no involvement! You're a good, honest guy! I knew I liked you for a reason.

Second: That 125 route was absolutely unbelievable!!! That's is by far the best roads we've ever drove on! Hats off to you Dave for showing us city folks how much fun those country roads can be. We'll definitely be cruising those roads more in the years to come- both in our car and on our motorcycle!

[vipergirl]

Originally Posted by 2snakes4us

Another fastastic road to drive on is Hwy 76 between Hill city and Cape Fair Missouri. its a roller coaster of banked turns. and very senic. give a try if ever down that way.

Hey thanks for letting me know about that other route! We'll have to drive that one too! We're always looking for good driving roads for the Viper!

[vipergirl]

Originally Posted by 2snakes4us

Another fastastic road to drive on is Hwy 76 between Hill city and Cape Fair Missouri. its a roller coaster of banked turns. and very senic. give a try if ever down that way.

Originally Posted by Venomiss

Thank you for posting what's on the T's! They turned out very nice.

They did turn out nice and I'm happy with them- but if you only knew what we went through to get those made!! We had a printer working on them but they were having trouble with the screen printing and the sample shirts they showed me looked like MUD! I saw it and knew that no one in our club would ever wear those with the cars looking yucky! We are all too proud of our cars! So then I started looking for another printer but we were down to the wire on timing and I couldn't find another screen printer that would do it! Finally I found Olathe T-shirt & Trophy and they can digitally print on t-shirts so they did a test and it looked great so that's the route we went. Thankfully it all came together in the end and we were able to show up with beautiful shirts.

[2snakes4us]

Something about this photo did not look right and it just came to me......we are NOT surrounding a Viper

This can not happen next year.

[quote=vipergirl;2592050]Here are some more pictures from the event:

[Venomiss]

This is a picture the hubby took. I didn't miss this.

[mike & juli]

I'm not afraid of spiders...but this looks like one on STEROIDS~!!! NO THANK YOU~!!! ~juli
(And, yes, I know about tarantulas.............DAVE!)