The last couple of days prior to this trip i kept watching the weather and seeing more and more rain forecasted, and just kept hoping we'd catch a break in between storms, and sure enough, thats what happened.
We arrived in LA around 9-10PM Friday night after an uneventful drive over with pretty minimal traffic for Friday night in LA. Being the only R53 of the group, I was the only one pushing fuel mileage, but managed to make it with a few drops left Definitely the furthest I've ever gotten CoopahS on one tank of gas.
After a couple libations in the hotel lounge, we called it a night, and got a good nights sleep for a full day of activities on Saturday. We woke up to beautiful blue skies and headed out for the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH).
Just as we got on the I-405 Northbound, we hear on our radios "Is that the Arizona Minis??" and a bunch of Mini coming buzzing around us, it was a part of the SCMM group heading to Malibu to meet us for breakfast. Talk about perfect timing!
We arrive at Coogies, and the SCMM Minis begin to fill the parking lot and everyone introduces themselves. After some socializing we head in for what was a great breakfast. Coogies is a regular breakfast meeting spot for the SCMM folks, so they know how to handle the crowd and we were in and out in not much more than an hour. Talk about a coincidence? We are all sitting there eating breakast, and in walk DMC Members Van, Gina & Sofie (okay, she was carried )! They happened to be in the area for the weekend and saw all the Minis parked in the lot along the road and and then recognized the AZ Plates after taking a closer look. They were as pleasantly surprised as we were, and joined us again later at the Petersen Museum!
After breakfast we returned to the parking lot for a pre-run drivers meeting, a nice hand-out of the "Mini - Mother of All Twistys" run that we were about to do and off we went!
Here is a group photo that will appear in the SCMMs next newsletter.
More pics of the day to come...