Our plans were to have most meals all together. Since we are coming from all over the place the idea is to spend meals together. During the day we will be out doing and site seeing, but we all need dinner! Since some are arriving on Thursday we thought to play dinner by ear. A meet and greet and maybe some appetizers or simple stuff to nibble on would be easy. People will arrive at all different times and planning something organized would be difficult. The rest arrive on Friday so we can have a group dinner. We can use the turkey fryers to steam dinner. For those who have never done this it is really good. We can also have a Brats and hot dogs steamed in Beer. Side dishes can be made the old fashioned way to round out the meals. Saturday Morning we can use the turkey fryer to do omelets. Craig and Betsey from Camp-Inn do this at their gathering for about 100 people and it works great. Basically you crack 2-3 eggs into a baggie. To that you add your fixins. Ham, onions,green pepper, cheese, mushrooms, whatever you like. Seal the bag. Shake it up some. Write your name on the bag and drop it into the boiling water and wait a few minutes. Whalla!, just like Denny's but without a check at the end. Sausage, bacon, fried potatoes, pancakes or waffles can be made on the stoves. Ya don't cook? Bring juice, cut fruit, donuts, what ever. It will be eaten.
This is where we are at right now. Soon I will start a separate thread for meals. Plan "A" will be fire ban lifted and we can use Charcoal and camp fires. We hope for this because Mike wants to show everyone how well he is doing with the Dutch Oven.
Plan "B" will be the steamed dinners. Breakfast is Omlets either way. But anyone wanting to do a Dutch Oven dish is more then welcome. So start doing a "rain dance"
and get this fire ban behind us. If not we will still have a great time. We just need to make adjustments.Something else Mike mentioned. As high up as we are it can still get very cold over night. So bring some warm clothes and bedding for those cold nights. Over the 4th Mike camped and said it was 38 degrees in the morning. During the day is warmed into the 80's but it pays to be prepared. Let us know if you have thought or suggestions that will help on anything I have posted here.
Saturday night we will do a Gas lantern Light up for those that want to participate. Bring along your favorite lantern ! We did one at our Tear Jerker gathering in Galena a few weeks ago. This is what it looked like.
See ya all soon!
Just remember Slow, I know what you drive! 
See you all soon! 
I'm thinking at least one of us is older than you are Slow!!!!!!!