Day 10

This is actually from Day 10, October 27th. The last 4 days of the tour was really busy and I was able to write down notes of the days so I could come back and finish this.

Bill

  Is everyone still with me after Day 9's post? I am kidding, I wanted to make sure I haven't started boring any of you yet. Today we had a little extra time in our start. We had to meet our police and fire escort for a parade here in Ponca City, OK. Well leave it to Movie Star to be in his hometown and still have us make a wrong turn getting to our destination. We got there and met the guys from PCFD as well as PCPD for our parade through the city. Oh and another thing, you know your in a small town when you can have a parade in the morning and be on the front page of the news paper by 430pm. Well that happened to movie star. By the way rent Twister or buy it to own. Movie star will be needing that royalty check soon since he has decided to stay on the tour until it ends next week. So back to our day. We did our tour through the city and as we drove by the schools all the kids were outside lined up down both sides of the street. As we came into downtown people from the businesses came outside to show their support also. Our parade took us to the Harland Mansion. The mansion was built for Mr. Harland who founded the oil company that we know as Conoco. The place was beautiful. As you see in the photo, we parked the trucks in the rear of the house on what was the olympic size pool. Ponca City did an awesome job. The marching band played, cheerleaders cheered, all around everyone was excited and showed true pride in their community.
       I need to add some more names to our cast. First lets start with the crew from the Wichita, KS chapter. She's Pink and she has lots of drive its Nikki the Pink fire truck. She is named after Nikki J. who arrived on her and is also a survivor of 1yr 10 months. Then you have the man behind the wheel, Don. Don is rejoining the tour, he left us in Memphis.
      Tonight we went to another event where the members of the community were doing a fundraiser. A citizen of Ponca City built a beautiful Pink Heals bench for the auction that night. Well the great people in attendance felt that the bench would be served best by being placed on the trailer next to the Ribbon of Hope. So they raised over $3000 just for the bench to be shared with everyone. Is that not just the greatest? The overall fundraiser was a success raising much more for their community. Well we have an early day tomorrow, good night.