Great weekend, Meeulander annual Dart run and sleepover

Saturday was the day for the annual "Dart Run" held by the Meeulanders Motorcycle club, where other clubs hold poker runs, we do it with darts, scores are recorded and prizes awarded at the end venue.

We gathered at the Phoenix biker bar which Anna and Eduardo set up nicely for us, the people were encouraged to throw their first dart straight away and soon the numbers were growing, we had a total of 79 entries which was fantastic.  Stephen braaied the boerewors rolls for the people who entered, each of whom got a roll, a braai pack for the evening and a ticket for the lucky prize draw later on as well as a "lucky packet" and a badge. Good value at R150 per person, accommodation was separate.

 

 From there it was a ride through to Velddrif and the Wielhuis bar, some sped, some cruised - Janet and I took it easy, it was very hot in Velddrif and the cold beers went down easy.

Janet is left handed so she used her right

 

This time it was a left-handed throw, the boards were never placed at regulation height at any of the venues to ensure that even non-dart players (such as myself) also had a chance of winning. We tried to keep things moving so that participants didn't spend too much time in the bar, the next venue was the hotel in Hopefield, a short twenty-odd kilometers away, we cruised along there too.

 

It was bloody hot in Hopefield too, the dart boards were placed in the corner and club members ensured that the people all had a throw and then we moved on to the end venue, "The Plot" down at Jacob's Bay where it was nice and cool. The final throw was taken care of and the scores tallied,  eight prizes were awarded; worst score male and female, third, second and best with our own Murray Harris winning best male score.

 Best represented club was the Mohicans with ten members, here their President Alex receives the prize of R1,000 cash, thanks for the support guys. I kept the "welcomes" and the "Thank yous" speech short and then it was time for the lucky prize draw. Third prize was R500 cash, second was R1,000 and the big prize of R5,000 was won by Monique of the Clique!

Thanks to all who took part, thank you to Dennis (right), chairman of the West Coast Motorcycle association who assisted with the draw to make sure it was all fair and square, then it was party time and man can those bikers party!

Malcolm calls the shots

Beauties and the beast

The fires were lit early so that people could braai whenever they wanted to, then later bonfires were lit and the folks sat around chatting into the wee small hours.

 

  

Somewhere around midnight there were two parties on the go, one at the bar and one at the fire pit. Excellent music was provided by our own member Henrico, "DJ Splinter" who, even though he had a gig on the next day kept the music going well into the morning.

I went to bed somewhere around 03h00, some stayed up longer but I had had it. It was a great party with a wonderful bunch of people, a big thank you to Elize and Malcolm and the club members who did all the work organizing and preparing and running the show, from feedback so far everyone enjoyed themselves. Sunday I needed to recover because a bunch of us were riding on Monday but more about that later. (Click on the pictures to see them full size and for more pictures of the run visit the Meeulander MCC facebook page)