Last Day NW Area Rally

Saturday was the last day of the FMCA Northwest Area Rally...

After devotions...

...we attended a couple of presentations, including one on FMCAssist...

... if you are an FMCA member - this is the way to get to the policy document - good for you to read so you know exactly what is covered.

A few days ago, we had attended a SkyMed session... we get FMCAssist for free with our FMCA membership, and SkyMed would cost about $3k for 5 years. Some differences as I understand it: SkyMed covers from the incident (which may include cost of ground or helicopter medical transport), FMCA starts after you get to the hospital. SkyMed will take you home if that is what you want, FMCA takes you to the nearest qualified hospital for your needs. It also sounded like you had to be sure to follow the correct procedure with FMCAssist, but the fellow from SkyMed kept on saying, "You just make the one call and it is taken care of from there." I'm sure there are other differences, but those were the big ones from my understanding.

We had lunch at the food truck that was located behind the hotel - yummy bbq beef and ribs!

Evening entertainment was Matt Baker - we only got pictures when he was spinning the Chinese yo-yos...

See that there is one way up in the air and the other on his string - it was pretty impressive!

He also does a stunt where he throws a bowling ball up with his foot and catches it on his head... ouch!

See a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78luX-LFCpw

We had a great time at this conference -- didn't "save" as much money as we did at the Tucson convention (i.e. we didn't have things that needed service that was provided for free), but we enjoyed seminars and entertainment, meeting new friends, and RV camaraderie!