| The Samboree runs Friday to
Sunday. Many people arrive on Thursday as "Early
Birds". Thursday had some activities including, vendor
sales, games crafts and
evening entertainment. On Friday and Saturday there were
crafts, a photo
contest, a Dog show, a Ladies tea,
games, lunch favorites, seminars, raffle sales, vendor sales, and evening
entertainment. On Sunday there is the traditional
pancake breakfast followed by a church service and finally
the releasing of balloons, in memory of departed chapter
members. In the evenings, there was entertainment.
On Thursday there was
the
dance class from
the Gunnison Arts Center, followed by Good Sam version of
bingo, SAMGO;. On Friday there was the Opening
ceremony. The followed by a talk by Randy Biles,
President of Pikes Peak Traveland in Colorado Springs.
Randy talked about the state of the RV industry. After
the talk we had bingo, SAMGO. On Saturday there is the catered
banquet, followed by the evenings entertainment, Fourmata, a
barbershop quartet and SAMGO. On
Saturday evening there were also game, and chapter
recognition awards. Each night that were dozens of
door prizes given out.
There were many contests: photo contest,
cat photo contest, Oreo stacking contest and a dog contest,
Homemade salsa contest. There was a used book sale. There were games:
. Marshmallow
Golf, Golf Challenge, Bean Bag Baseball, horseshoes,
Bean Bag Toss, Bola Toss, Washer Toss, Cake Walk,
Bocce Ball, cards, puzzles,
and Dominos.
There were two seminars. Jeff Towne, your friendly web
master, put on his annual computer seminar and the Hammin
Sams put on a Ham Radio seminar.
There were hosted craft sessions:
Sue Steele with her Popcorn People;
Carolyn Hall with
her Beaded USA Banner; Jean Amburn with her Handcrafted
Christmas Cards
Food, Food, Food: On Friday morning, the Old # 7
passed out cookies and coffee for the morning Hospitality.
At lunch there was a deli offerings by the Tumbleweeds, who
sold hot dogs and root beer floats and the Aspen Leaves, who
sold pies and cakes. On Saturday morning, the Good
luck Sams passed out donuts and coffee followed but the
Prairie Dog Sams for the morning Hospitality. At
lunch there was a deli offerings by the Tag-A-Long Sams who
sold Walking Tacos, iced tea and hot dogs, and the Kissing
Camel Sams, who sold egg rolls and Tumbleweed Sams who sold
root beer floats. On Saturday afternoon there was an Ice
Cream Social with free pints of ice cream for everyone.
On Saturday evening there was the free banquet.
On Sunday morning
there was the pancake breakfast. The Aerospace Sams
sold sausages There were commercial
venders as well as chapters selling crafts and holding
raffles as fundraisers. |