Nine days! Aah! I didn't get as much done on trip preparations today as I had hoped, because of work -- oh, that. First I had a meeting on the east side of Raleigh at 1, then Stoneline in Chapel Hill. So I spent a lot of time driving around today. Between the two I stopped at Wal-mart and picked up plenty of bubble juice and a car battery charger. It has a DC jack right in it, and I got a nice big one that should provide power for a decent length of time. Also stopped by the dollar store and got a bunch of glow sticks. My plan is to tape the glow sticks to the wheels for the Saturday night illuminated cruise.
Speaking of the illuminated cruise, after dinner this evening I tried out the rope lights. It got dark while I was working so I only got one side done. I used electrical tape to hold up the lights, just to get them in place. Tomorrow I'll go back and attach the little clips that came with the lights, so that at the event we can just clip them in place.
Rather than neatly going around the edges of the car I did a swirly loopy design. I think it looks good, but we need something on the roof. Dang! I only have four boxes of the lights, two boxes for each side. We could really use two more boxes for the roof, but it's difficult to buy those lights at this time of year. Well, we'll think of something else.
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