Michigan Geocaching Organization
Fall Fun Day 2004
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| Where |
Bertha Brock Park, Ionia Michigan
We have rented the Palmer Lodge for the weekend of October 9, 2004.
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| When |
Schedule
Friday October 8, 2004
Event Eve
| 7:30pm - End |
MiGO will be hosting a pre-event Cracker
Barrel Social in the Palmer Lodge Friday night to welcome all early
arrivals. There will be a small assortment of snacks provided, please feel
free to bring something to share. |
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Saturday October 9,
2004
Main Event
Day
| 9:00-10:00 |
Continental breakfast at the lodge &
event setup. MiGO will be providing an assortment of breakfast foods for
early arrivals. Come and enjoy continental breakfast and bring something
to share if you like. We'll be setting up for the event at this time as
well, feel free to come by and help. |
| 10:00-11:00 |
Michigan Geocaching Organization General
Membership Meeting & Installation of Executive Committee Officers |
| 11:00-12:00 |
Check-in, football registration, general
chit-chat |
| 12:00-2:00 |
Main event time. Teams will go out
to collect their football plays. |
| 2:00-5:00 |
Drop off cards for scanning.
Football game starts. Watch the game and socialize. Drinks and
snacks as we socialize and watch. |
| 5:00-7:00 |
Potluck dinner. Towards the end of
dinner, the Superbowl Champions will be announced and awarded their prize.
Other awards and doorprizes at this time as well. |
| 7:00 - On |
Close up, clean up and socialize. Those
who wish to get on the road may. We have the lodge booked all night and will be
making use of it for a casual after-event
social. | |
| Registration Fee |
FREE! There is no fee required to attend
the event or to participate in any activity during the event. |
| What To Bring |
Please bring your folding lawn chairs. There is limited seating in the
lodge, but *much* floorspace and around the hearths.
Something for pot luck (see "Food" below)
Signature Cards and Items
Bring
your sig item/card in a small box or bag for the exchange table.
Go down the
line and take one of each and leave yours for each one you take.
This does
not take the place of meeting everyone! Just a fun way to exchange sig
items.
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| Food |
Pot Luck! We are
asking everyone to bring a dish to pass. Once again we are using the
secret formula developed by our very own 3Bees and patented in 19 countries.
The Secret Potluck Formula™
Based on your last name, please bring the following:
- A-H bring main dish
- I-R bring side dish
- S-Z bring dessert
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| The
Main Event |
This year's theme will be the MiGO Superbowl. It will
pit two teams against each other in a new football-themed Geocaching game.
Not to worry, the game is non-competitive and even the most inexperienced
Geocachers will have fun getting on a team, meeting some new friends, and
tackling (get it?) the easy caches that will help them become
their team's MVP and push their team to victory! The game is designed
to rely on the basics of caching and to bring people together for a chance to
cache together.
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| Other Activities |
Team Uniform Event - GO TEAM!!!
Hey, all you geocachers! Get ready for
the SuperBowl Uniform Contest!
Create uniforms for your team (Caching team,
MiGO, your individual nickname, etc.) for this year's Fall Fun Day and wear them
to the event. The judges will be the new Executive Officers. Winners get a
special prize!
Use your imagination and creativity! And GO TEAM!!!
Clock Giveaway to Benefit
MiGO
Team S&B has
created a one of a kind clock to give away at FFD and has asked to use this as
an opportunity to raise some funds to support MiGO. They will be
circulating the lodge on Saturday and you can give them a donation in exchange
for a guess of how many piece of macaroni there are in their jar. Closest
guess wins.
Signature Item
Swap
There will be a table
set up to drop off one of your sig items and exchange it for someone
else's. So bring your sig cards and items to swap.
Little Black Book Swap
Shop
We'll dedicate an area
to swapping your little black book with other cachers. Program your
contact details into your PDA under the category "Geocachers" and then gather in
this area to beam them to other cachers so you can build your "Phone a Friend"
list quickly and easily. |
| Prizes and Sponsors |
Thank you to our generous
sponsors!
We would like to thank the following for their generous support of Fall Fun
Day 2005. All these companies/groups have donated items for doorprizes or
other giveaways for the Fall Fun Day.
- Thank you to Garmin for
the donation of a variety of Garmin swag including shirts, stickers and can coozies.
- Thank you to Groundspeak for providing us with a variety of items from
their online store including a selection of jeep travel bugs,
regular travel bugs, stickers and shirts.
- Thank you to Geocacher
University for their contribution of mugs, a geowoodstock t-shirt, cache
stickers and postcards
- Thank you to Mapopolis
for providing three copies of their excellent Platinum software. Put
street level mapping on your Palm or PocketPC. Each Platinum package can
be redeemed as $35 towards the Navigator version which features real time turn
by turn directions when integrated with GPS.
- Thank you to all the MiGO members who have given their time to help plan the
event and to the many members who have donated items to be used as door
prizes. Your help is invaluable and much appreciated!
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| Lodging |
The event is being held at the Bertha Brock Park which boasts a wonderful
23-site rustic campground. Campers beware that it will be early October
and the sites are truly rustic, with only pit toilets available and hand pumps
for water. There is one faucet at the camp entrance as well. No
shower facilities.
Thanks to Team CoyChev for hammering out the details for us with the
hotel. Here is the information on booking at the nearby AmeriHost
Suites:
The AmeriHost is 2.6 miles from Bertha Brock Park, as the crow flies.
We've retained a 15 room block.
The booking rate is $68.95 plus tax if
you tell them you're with MiGO.
The offer is for the 8th and/or 9th of
October and the rooms have to be reserved by September 22nd
AmeriHost Inn and Suites
423 Brown Boulevard
Ionia, MI 48846
Phone: 616.527.2200
Reservations: 1.800.434.5800
Hotel
coordinates are: N 42 58.639 W085 04.144
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