Quad Cities Celtic Games August 26, 2006

[Hugh]

Our version of the Highland Games will be held at the Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa. This festival has grown over the past several years and it is getting a pretty good reputation.

[auld argonian]

Gee...and my wife was just out that way (well, in Clinton, anyway) and came back and told me that that Western Illinois/Eastern Iowa area is really interesting and we ought to explore it more....hmmmmmm.

Let's check the schedule....any campgrounds near there? I expect that any hotels will be booked solid by now...



Best

AA

[Hugh]

Gee...and my wife was just out that way (well, in Clinton, anyway) and came back and told me that that Western Illinois/Eastern Iowa area is really interesting and we ought to explore it more....hmmmmmm.

Let's check the schedule....any campgrounds near there? I expect that any hotels will be booked solid by now...



Best

AA

Actually you could probably get a room just about anywhere. There are campgrounds at West Lake Park, 14910 110 Ave, Davenport, 563-328-3281 run by Scott County. They are maybe 5-7 miles from the Fairgrounds on West Locust St.

[Livingston]

If it wasn't for work and that being right in the middle of the only time of year I CAN'T get off, I'd be there in a heart beat. My Mother grew up in the Quad City area and I loads of cousins there. My wife's sister is in Clinton, IA. Her family is in the Iowa City area. My children are in the Des Moines area. Could make a MAJOR trip out of it

[Hugh]

If it wasn't for work and that being right in the middle of the only time of year I CAN'T get off, I'd be there in a heart beat. My Mother grew up in the Quad City area and I loads of cousins there. My wife's sister is in Clinton, IA. Her family is in the Iowa City area. My children are in the Des Moines area. Could make a MAJOR trip out of it

Why not? It will be fun and the SAMS Post 1846 will be there in force - in Scotch - in beer and in all liklihood - in trouble. But what a way to go.

[Livingston]

Why not? It will be fun and the SAMS Post 1846 will be there in force - in Scotch - in beer and in all liklihood - in trouble. But what a way to go.

Primary reason? I don't have enough money saved up to tide me over till I find another job...this one would be gone if I walked out to go to the games...just can't get time off between the second week of August and the first full week in October. I work in IT sales to the US Army and 9/30 is the end of their fiscal year. They go thru an orgy of purchasing to use up any funds left over before they have to give them back.