:smilewinkgrin: Hi All~I'm Carol Brosnac, a Pepper White/Black 2006 R52 owner. My husband is Steve and he is the proud owner of a Jet Black 2005 R53. We're members of SCMM and honorary members of Shasta MINIs, as well. We live in Fresno, CA currently, but have not yet been able to join up with MidCalMINIs due to scheduling conflicts. We're hoping to meet a lot of you at MINI Thunder III next month (if all goes well, we will be there). Are any of you bringing kids? Steve has a boy that will be 9 then and a 12-year old daughter. We're hoping there will be others close to their ages, so that we can do our thing and they won't be too bored (they haven't yet caught onto MINI/Mini life yet). Anyhow, glad to be here and can't wait to meet more of you on here and at future events and we can't wait to see all of our MINI Family that we met on our inaugural run in September (Devil's Backbone to Mammoth~such a blast!)!!!! Carol Montgomery Brosnac | Facebook