2015 Great Lakes/Midwest Meet & Greet - Happy Campers

[jim44646]

I do have a second canopy I can bring + 2 lanterns

[JohnB]

Hi Jim,

If you have room in the truck, having the 2nd canopy may be a good thing if we need it. I have not yet heard if Jack can bring his he used last year.

On lanterns, I have one and if you have 1, that is 2 and should be enough.

[JohnB]

Hi everyone!

We are in count down mode now

We are planing to arrive mid afternoon Friday and would like to extend a dinner invitation for Friday night with anyone else who would like to join us. We all bring our own meals, just dine together and start the fellowship early.

Timing would be 5:30pm or thereabouts for those who can make it.

Those who are arriving later, we kick off the M & G weekend with cracker barrel Friday at 8:00pm at the group campfire site A12.

Let me know.

Thanks

John

[vanhakke]

Hi, JohnB, and Everybody,

Letting you all know that we will be checking into the campground on Thursday afternoon. We'll be on hand as a "sort-of" welcoming committee. We also plan on staying over Sunday night, for a Monday morning departure.

Looking forward to seeing you all, and looking forward to Friday evening's dinner.

See you there.

Dennis & Marie

[John-n-Janis]

JohnB

John and Janis will be arriving Friday afternoon, will be providing Cumber Sandwiches at the Friday Cracker Barrel, Sat Breakfast Mushrooms and Sausage and Corned Beef and Swiss Pretzel Rolls with a Italian Pasta Salad at the Pot Luck Dinner. See you and everyone on Friday.

John and Janis Blaskowski

[J&A Lima Oh]

I have a 10' sq' first up, I will bring and I have posted what else we will bring previously, we are making arraignments to get Blueberry's on the way home tomorrow so we will most likely have fresh Blueberry cobbler for the potluck.
I also have a 10 by 20 canopy but not room to haul as we will be on the way home and will arrive Wednesday.

[JohnB]

Great!!! I think we are "covered" on the canopy's... And looking at the forecast for Mendon, it is sort of 50/50 we may have some showers. Will keep watching.

Jack, No need right now to bring the big one, we have 4 small ones in the works. So all is good on the canopy's Last year we had 2 small ones and my sons big one but it is in the state of needing new parts...

Looks like we will have several for dinner on Friday.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again and meeting John & Janis our new friends.

Thanks

John and Cindy

[vanhakke]

Hi, Sunliners,

Marie and I are on schedule to depart for Mendon at 1 pm Thursday. See you all there.

Dennis

[J&A Lima Oh]

Originally Posted by JohnB

Friday Night Cracker-barrel and Saturday Night Pot Luck sign up list:

Friday Night Cracker-barrel 8:00pm at Group site 12 picnic tables. A Friday night get together to meet your Sunline friends. If you can, bring a share finger food snack, please post a reply and we will add it to the list.

JohnB/CindyB: Cheese, pepperoni and crackers tray
Vanhakke: TBD
jim44644: TBD
John-n-Janis: Cumber Sandwiches



Saturday Breakfast: Start cooking at 9:30am, Eat at 10:00am. We will be doing baggie omelets at the Group site picnic tables. Come for 9:30am to start making your omelet. For those who have never done this before, we make omelets in a bag and boil them. Your omelet bag is made by you at the group site from ingredients brought by members. The head boiler cooks the entire groups omelets all at once! 15 to 20 minutes later the entire group sits down to dine.

We ask the members from each camper to bring your own 2 eggs per/person attending and your own eating utensils and breakfast beverages. We are also asking you to bring a group share, omelet ingredient and a breakfast share food. Post a reply of what you are bringing and we will add it to the list. All cooking bags will be provided by the camp host. If eggs are not your thing, please still come and share our other breakfast foods with us. Please post a reply and we will add it to the list.

Breakfast Sign up List: (Bring enough for the members in your camper plus 2 to 5 others. Items can be repeated within reason.)

JohnB/CindyB: Bacon and a breakfast bread or muffins.
Vanhakke: Fruit bowl
jim44644: Breakfast: Shredded Cheddar Cheese, Chopped green peppers, apple bread.
John-nJanis: Breakfast Mushrooms and Sausage


Saturday Dinner Potluck: Dining to start at 5:30pm at the Group site picnic tables. Bring a share dish or desert enough for the members in your camper plus 2 to 5 others. Bring your own beverages and eating utensils. Please post a reply and we will add it to the list.

Potluck Sign up List:

JohnB/CindyB: Crock pot meal with kielbasa
Vanhakke: bratwurst and German potato salad
jim44644: Supper: Rancho Beans W/hamburg, Rhubarb Cake/ whipped cream.
John-n-Janis: Swiss Pretzel Rolls with a Italian Pasta Salad
J & A Lima Ohio: Blueberry cobbler with fresh blueberries

Saturday Night Campfire: Starting at 8:30pm at Group site A12. Bring your own chair and gather around for a good camper folks yak session! If you have left over cracker-barrel goodies and you want to get rid of them, this is the place! Bring them.

We will update this events post as new topics or items are known.

Are we there yet!!! Camping fever is setting in….

I just had a friend of mine drip of a small trailer load od wood, I think it will be enough for while we are there if Jim does not want to bring fire wood.
For Sat breakfast I will bake some fresh muffins.

[jim44646]

I already have my truck totally loaded with wood and on my way

Originally Posted by J&A Lima Oh

I just had a friend of mine drip of a small trailer load od wood, I think it will be enough for while we are there if Jim does not want to bring fire wood.
For Sat breakfast I will bake some fresh muffins.

[JohnB]

It sounds like we will "have enough" and "more than enough" wood once again this year.

Since Jack can bring some, I will leave my scrap lumber wood at home I was going to throw in.... Don't think we will need "more and more than enough" fire wood. If it is as hot as it was yesterday may not need "much"

Getting excited to get back out camping. Been tied up this year big time...

See you all soon.

John

[apackoftwo]

Sorry to miss it. In Colorado right now. Everyone have a great time!

[Poppy & Nana]

Hope all arrived safely and the weather stays nice.....enjoy your M&G!

[jim44646]

We all arrived safe. We had a fun but wet weekend. Everyone took the rain in stride to the point it was getting funny.
We met a new Sunline couple. Nice to meet you.
Welcome John and Janis. Hope the rain didn't discourage you.

[John-n-Janis]

To our new Sunline friends, John and Cindy, Dennis and Marie, Jack and Angela, Jim and Darlene. We had a very enjoyable time it was a pleasure to meet all of you and get to know you, only "dark cloud" was the rain. Look forward to next year and hopefully a lot dryer stay. Everyone have a safe and enjoyable camping season.

Best Regards,
John and Janis Blaskowski

[J&A Lima Oh]

Jim;
I am so sorry about forgetting to tell you about the Bluelick underpass, I forgot it as ours goes thru it and yours may too but would want someone watching the first time, it is a round underpass like a short tunnel.

Denny and I were talking about all of us that can next year arriving on Wednesday and going on a road trip Thursday, leave in the morning, go to Greenville and see the Kitchen-aid experience, then to the Bicycle museum in New Bremen, and end the day with a meal at Behn's restaurant on lake Saint Marys, before back to camp. Then if we want we can go to Deep Cut park on Friday and in to Saint Marys to look-see shopping trip, they have a lot of antique and what not shops.

Denny
You were asking about natural Lakes in Ohio.
The state of Ohio has hundreds of lakes, but only 114 are classified as "natural.", Aurora Pond is the largest natural lake in Ohio, despite the fact its name incorporates the word "pond." Located in Portage County, it has 345 acres of surface water.
just FYI, but if you check, it does have a dam as it was dammed to make it deeper for a feeder for the canal system.

Hoping ya'll had a safe trip home, we will see ya'll next year.
Jack & Angela.

[J&A Lima Oh]

Hello Again all.
If any one gets past Clinton Lake Camping, 4990 E Township Road 122, Republic, OH 44867, please take a good look and we can discuss it next year as a possible place to move our meet & greet to, I think it would be more centrally located for all of us that were here this year, just a place to take a look at, and discuss next year.
J&A

[vanhakke]

Firstly, we'd like to echo Jack and Jim's welcome to John-n-Janis. It was great to have you, and looking forward to next year.

Speaking of next year, before we departed River Trails, I spoke with Carol, the owner, about next year, and she has us penciled in for 2016. The dates will be June 10, 11 and 12, officially. She will hold the entire triangle of sites for us until about a month before the event. At that point, we should talk to her about how many we might want to hold for the June M & G.

To emphasize what Jack has said, yes, some of us might arrive mid-week to engage in some extracurricular activities, a road trip. However, the OFFICIAL dates of the M & G are as stated above.

Note to Jim: rest assured that the rain dancing shoes have been retired. The garbage man hauled them off yesterday !

vanhakke
(Dennis)

[JohnB]

Hi All,

Sorry this took a bit to get back to all of you. Been a little crazy here the last few days. We made it home safe and sound.

We had a great time again this year. And made great new friends with John and Janis.

Here is our Saturday night campfire group picture just before the rain chased us away....



That campfire was amazing how it could burn through that 30 minute mini monsoon and be a blazing away. Cindy said, gee look we can have campfire just looking out the window with the rain pouring down...

Looking forward to next year.

Thanks again

John and Cindy

[jim44646]

Originally Posted by JohnB

Hi All,
That campfire was amazing how it could burn through that 30 minute mini monsoon and be a blazing away. Cindy said, gee look we can have campfire just looking out the window with the rain pouring down...

Looking forward to next year.

Thanks again

John and Cindy

About 1:00AM after even more rain I was out walking around in ankle deep water. Not a blade of grass to be seen (the whole campground was a lake), and low and behold that campfire rekindled and was blazing away. The fire ring was completely surrounded by water. Like a floating fire.