And if you do, the Austin parade up Congress Ave is a good one!  The club had a lot of vehicles and members out for 2006.  We're getting to the point of these events as routine and this was no different.  Herb and I drove over from the house and we met at the TxDot parking lot about 7:15 or so.  By 7:30am we had Danny and his M37, me and my M38A1 and Dad, Herb and his GPW, Glen and his CJ2A, Rick H and his M38A1, Fred H and his Navy CJ2A, Madison H and his M37.  Also showing up were Bill B and Kenny W.

At 7:30 we meandered our way on to the bridge for staging.  This year we were going to be hauling several different groups but we agreed as a club we would keep the vehicles together.  We made it to the bridge and staged with no problem other than Rory and Jeff with the big trucks had not arrived.  Knowing we were going to have to haul a lot of people, we started to make plans on how we would accomplish that.  Turns out, they were delayed in their arrival from the event prior to ours and they showed up.  Rory was in his 5 ton with Caitlin and Jeff was in his duece with Rory's son Patrick.

After numerous pictures with the South Vietnamese army group in my M38A1, the parade finally started.  We headed up Congress Ave to a good crowd.  It's been better in the past, and it's been worse, but overall there was a good turn-out.  At the Capitol, we made the turn to head South and back to TxDot where Fred's daughter and his sons/grandkids had brought a birthday cake.  We were treated to cake and coffee which was a welcome surprise.  Happy Birthday Fred!

After our bellies were full, we all gathered up and headed home.