Back From Bala!

Hi All
We have just got home, and ...
Would just like to say a Thank Youto all that came to Bala from behalf of my Daughter Dan and I,we had a brill time :dance:

It was great seeing the Gals and Guys I know and also was great meeting New members

We wished that we had stayed 2 nights, but that was the first time Dannii had camped

Hope everyone got home all right and had a safe Journey home And you all enjoyed the weekend :dance:

Thanks all for making my Daughter feel really welcome :dance:

Many Thanks again All..
Will post the few photo's later on..
Regards Roo :dance:

Me and Jude got home a couple of hours ago, set off about 11.45, didn't stop and home by 4. The 2.8 didn't miss a beat in the 575 miles since friday :dance:

. Cracking weekend with cracking people in cracking scenery, what more could you want

Thanks go to Andy for all his efforts at organising the event and to all you others for making us feel welcome. We don't do socialising much down here and are quite a shy couple but found it easy with a freindly bunch such as yourselves, so thanks for that. Couple of little vids up soon.

woodwizzard , we also left early this morning , sorry we didnt catch up with you , but we left the lights with some of the SWB guys who were up the top end of the field (where we where camped) for you , did you get them ?

PM'd you

Cool , glad you got the lights :dance:

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Could only get time off for the one day (sat) but had a good un yesterday, was great to meet a few more members and put faces to names.

A BIG THANKS to all involved in organising the weekend, my co pilot for the day (non member) remarked on how well organised it all was. Bala 4x4 made a great venue with plenty to do for all skill levels. Did anyone try and go through that bog or get up that hill? :shock:

There was a group of toyota landcruisers and one of those new toyota things that turned up today. They had 35" tyres and big suspension lifts. One LC drove up with no bother at all and the flashy new toyota did it on his 3rd attempt. I just stuck to going down it as I didn't want to embarress them :wink:

I got back about 5 ish and now fed, showered and watered am having a quick browse through the new posts whilst downloading photos from the camera.

I arrived on Friday evening and was very surprised to see the number of members already there - possibly 25-30 Fronteras :shock:

It was a great couple of days at an excellent play site with some great company.

Andysd1 did a sterling job in getting this event off the ground and running with it - cheers bud :clap:

More later no doubt.

Lawrence

Got back a couple of hours ago now fed and showered

It was a great weekend thanks andy for organising it hope everyone got back safely nell the dogs looking at me as though its "ho hum back here how boring can we go back please" :dance:

Roo forgot to remind you when erkos bro gets back "You're Barred!! by the only gay in admin :wink:

Got back safely at around 6pm. Still feeling hungover from last night !!!!!

Now unloaded and Unpacked, Fed and Watered (Ta Zoe :wink:

), just going to have a nice hot bath, then chill out for a hour or two, with time to reflect on a great weekend.

Thanks to all involved in organising and making the effort to give all the people who turned up a weekend to remember (wish I could remember between the hours of 6pm Saturday to 6.30 am Sunday !!!! No recollection of what I got upto whatsoever !!!!!)

Only 363 days till the Next one !!!! Should just give me enought time to recover.

A few piccys will follow later.

Firstly I would Like To Appologise for my Indiscretion Last night to ALL at Bala.

AndySD1 did a superb job of organising this weekend together with all the other Admin and the Owner of Bala 4X4.

My untried 2.5TD did not miss a beat until this afternoon when I slid into a rut that had a sharp rock in the side. 1 flat tyre and my spare outside the caravan. Oh well it was beyond repair anyway, Drove down to the camp site from the top on the rim, fitted the spare and then found some awlful noise from the front axle in 4L, Or where the axle is, too much mud at the moment, but no visable leaks.

I was VERY impressed with the ability of the fronty

Thank you 1 and ALL for a Great weekend
Julian

Glad that everyone is getting home safe, I had a great weekend, just about catching up on the lack of sleep (Never sleep so great when camping). Especially thanks to drift and bobbins for helping me with my tent when I got there (late) on Friday night

It was great to meet everyone, and huge thanks to andysd1 for his organising, brilliant job. I don't know how the ones staying there until tomorrow are going to have time to recover :lol:

I am definitely glad it's a bank holiday weekend :dance:

cc

I'm back and shatered. Might be lack of sleep or the large amount of scotch drunk last night.

Big up for Andy for sorting the whole thing out, was a great weekend of fresh faces and good mates. Far more than just an off road event, the social side was fantastic, I havent recovered from the laughing. At least three times I reached or the floor to help me, and I was sober :oops:

at the time.

Fuddy the portaloo king, Andy the ground anchor and Dan, well Dan is all I need to say. Roo, wooden spoon or not youve used this weeks smiley count already.

The off roading was great, we even managed to get fixes to most issues that cropped up on the cars, FOG pit crew all worked well, even the Fudster, can in hand.

Cant wait for the next meet, gonna be good.

great weekend even though saturday i popped a rear brake piston but fuddy came to the rescue along with bobby chrissie and many mor to get a cylinder brought down along with other parts :dance:

. cars a bit ill though just hasn't got the poke it had ? coped fine all weekend though so i'll have a look tomorrow everythings caked in mud. my steering box has died though got home and theres power steering fluid dripping out. just tired now.

Me n Bill got home safe n sound at 5 ish. Trucks all washed off n still dirty :roll:

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Didn't take any pics or vids sorry cos I was havin tooooooooooo much fun in the woods area :twisted:

Thanks to all involved n Andy for sortin it all out. The woods section is worth the entry fee on it own. I aint stopped goin on about it since i got home :lol:

Oh n cant wait to see the pics n vids of us all playin hard :twisted:

Next year Andy, try not to have it on my boys birthday (2nd) so i can do all weekend ppppllllleeeeeaaaaassssseeeeeee. Love ya hunny :mrgreen:

Ive been back a few hours, cant keep my eyes open but Im still buzzing, it was fantastic :lol:

Quite a few cherry red sunburnt faces today... or was that the alcohol :oops:

Got a few pics and vids in the review thread

Thanks very much to everyone for a really great weekend, and to all those who made it happen in the first place!! :lol:

Got some pics and vids to upload a little later today... :wink:

Stunning scenery, excellent company and great entertainment...what more could a person ask huh? LOL :mrgreen:

Looking forward to the next one....... :dance:

Well me and karen left in convoy with Ian(Niel :lol:

) Erko and the guy who's name i can't remember :oops:

in the B series LWB we went and did the wayfarer, made it all the way this time after Weave's truck sprang a Rad leak we had to turn back (Hope its ok mate) anyway left them all at the end to make our way home ended up driving 25 miles out of our way to find a garage that was open as the truck needed power steering fluid after the punishment my truck took after i made the 20 attempts to get up THAT HILL :lol:

but it never missed a beat all the way home also managed to hose down my alternator at the garage after it took on more mud on the wayfarer and decided it wasnt going to charge the battery :shock:

finally made it home at 11:30pm my thanks go to Andysd1 for the organisation of the event and trugga too me and karen really enjoyed the weekend and karen apologises for her little bit of annoyance on saturday night photo's will follow soon enough but i am really pleased that with all the abuse the thundertruck took (and most of you know she TOOK some abuse :shock:

) that she kept on ticking without fault and i can't wait to see the pictures that john (waterbogged Landrover) :lol:

took of the Thundertruck getting airborne :dance:

Lee & Karen