Guzzle-N-Twirl this year was good to me and we had lots of fun . New friends Ron and Pam Thomas from Wisconsin came for their first ever GnT . Judy , myself and Walker Texas Plumber took off for MN as soon as the kids got on the school bus . We stopped at the Bears Den on the way to drop of a Grain Belt Bottle cap neon I purchased that needed some TLC . Then we made our way to St . Paul . We rolled in around 12:35 and the Jay Martin brewery tour had left without us . So we joined up with Miner s and Thomas s and found a cool place I had never been to called Obs Tavern . We had a nice lunch and some good beers there . Then back to the hotel . It was a rainy day and we didn t feel like running around the cities in the rain . We got settled in the hotel and cracked a beer and stared walking the halls . Guzzle had a different feel to it this year as the hotel was undergoing renovations and everything above the 4th floor was under construction . Therefore the number of guests and rooms for R2R trading were way down . It was still fun and we saw some cool things , drank some Grain Belts and enjoyed the free pizza . Saturday morning we thought we d do something new for breakfast so Judy and I , Sue Miner and Texas Plumber went to Obs for breakfast . A good choice ! Ron Thomas had brought me a couple of Danish Kringle from Racine . These things are delicious ! Judy thought we needed to split them up so Sue and her could try different flavors so there we sat with 3 of these things getting cut up and sampled while waiting for our breakfast . We got a few curious looks from a few people . After breakfast we headed to Aldrich Arena and the big show . After 3 auctions and the new show at Starkeller I decided I was going to be a little conservative and only buy something if I couldn t live without it . As usual I started cruising the floor and you run into people you haven t seen Miller for a Caves while and on start the talking tour and it s actually kind of difficult sometimes to cover the entire floor . That was the case again this year . As the morning was slipping by I saw lots of cool things but nothing that was tugging at my wallet . Then my loving wife spotted 2 Grain Belt neons on a table on the north side . They were the old bottle cap ones like I had just bought , or so I thought at first glance . Let me regress for a moment . About 5 years ago I bought a bottle cap neon like the one at the bottom right . A friend of mine saw it and kept after me with offers of huge sums of money until I finally sold it to him . I thought I d never have a chance to own one of these again and Steve Miner kept reminding of that and asking how I could sell it . Well as I m standing at this guys table I notice the neon that was the furthest from where I was standing was the one I sold five years ago . About
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Guzzle-N-Twirl this year was good to me and we had lots of fun . New friends Ron and Pam Thomas from Wisconsin came for their first ever GnT . Judy , myself and Walker Texas Plumber took off for MN as soon as the kids got on the school bus . We stopped at the Bears Den on the way to drop of a Grain Belt Bottle cap neon I purchased that needed some TLC . Then we made our way to St . Paul . We rolled in around 12:35 and the Jay Martin brewery tour had left without us . So we joined up with Miner s and Thomas s and found a cool place I had never been to called Obs Tavern . We had a nice lunch and some good beers there . Then back to the hotel . It was a rainy day and we didn t feel like running around the cities in the rain . We got settled in the hotel and cracked a beer and stared walking the halls . Guzzle had a different feel to it this year as the hotel was undergoing renovations and everything above the 4th floor was under construction . Therefore the number of guests and rooms for R2R trading were way down . It was still fun and we saw some cool things , drank some Grain Belts and enjoyed the free pizza . Saturday morning we thought we d do something new for breakfast so Judy and I , Sue Miner and Texas Plumber went to Obs for breakfast . A good choice ! Ron Thomas had brought me a couple of Danish Kringle from Racine . These things are delicious ! Judy thought we needed to split them up so Sue and her could try different flavors so there we sat with 3 of these things getting cut up and sampled while waiting for our breakfast . We got a few curious looks from a few people . After breakfast we headed to Aldrich Arena and the big show . After 3 auctions and the new show at Starkeller I decided I was going to be a little conservative and only buy something if I couldn t live without it . As usual I started cruising the floor and you run into people you haven t seen Miller for a Caves while and on start the talking tour and it s actually kind of difficult sometimes to cover the entire floor . That was the case again this year . As the morning was slipping by I saw lots of cool things but nothing that was tugging at my wallet . Then my loving wife spotted 2 Grain Belt neons on a table on the north side . They were the old bottle cap ones like I had just bought , or so I thought at first glance . Let me regress for a moment . About 5 years ago I bought a bottle cap neon like the one at the bottom right . A friend of mine saw it and kept after me with offers of huge sums of money until I finally sold it to him . I thought I d never have a chance to own one of these again and Steve Miner kept reminding of that and asking how I could sell it . Well as I m standing at this guys table I notice the neon that was the furthest from where I was standing was the one I sold five years ago . About
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this time some joker comes up and starts trying to but in on the neons . I told the seller to focus as I was already here and making an offer . I hit him with my offer and then waited . He came back meeting me in the middle and the deal was done . I got my sign back . I can t tell you how thrilled I was . Neon is very addicting . Now I have 3 bottle caps , the newer one put out by Schell s and the 2 older ones from Minneapolis Brg . Co . I can t wait to get them both up on the wall at Tavern on the Ridge . We left for Iowa around noon . Stopped in Mankato to talk to Curt at the brewery about our upcoming show , had a couple beers and continued on home . It was a great time that passed to quickly .
Tom Terwilliger # 28855
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