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Lazy Hayes Days III
Lazy Hayes Days III
The forecast called for cold and rain with high winds, but that wasn't enough to deter our crazy crowd of cachers from coming out for Lazy Hayes Days III (May 15-17 2009), we are Michiganders after all! Our event kicked off Friday evening with camper set-up and a nice hotdog roast at the campgrounds' group firepit, THANKFULLY, we set up the quick-up shelters as the rain was promising to make an appearance...and didn't disappoint one bit! Nurse Nanna made banana boats, bananas cut so marshmallows and chocolate chips could be stuffed inside, then wrapped in tinfoil and placed over the fire until all melted and gooey...YUM, I ate one of these and wished I had room for another since there were plenty for all! Of course, we roasted hotdogs and talked a bit before night fell and the rain slammed us full bore! Lightning and thunder, pouring rain, howling winds...we braved it all! When finally we all decided we'd had all we could take for one night, it was time to go to bed, but something about sleeping in tents under trees in the pouring rain with lightening all about sure was scary, I was glad to wake up to hear noises coming from the boys' tent!
Saturday came about with a dampness and coolness we had not expected, it truly got cold over the night as the temperatures dropped into the mid 30's. Oh well, we're geocachers, we can handle that, right?? Some of the cachers popped up nice and early since the new caches were published while we were sitting around the fire the night before, might as well hike out for some FTFs! Now, we (TR&T w/K) are known to hide some sneaky ones, so hearing of problems locating a few wasn't new to us and we chuckled about this a bit with those doing the searching before it came time to load up the food, prizes and event stuff, we were off for the beach pavillion!
A few hours and a LOT of help later, we were set up and ready for the day to get FUN! The rain subsided by around 11am, but the wind was just getting warmed up, we were in for a gusty day for sure...and, since we were just off the shore of Wampler's Lake, the wind was extra strong in that pavillion! Oh well, we did our best to do our best! Soon, we were cooking up hotdogs and the dutch oven cookoff contestants were starting their dishes, which wasn't easy since the wind kept blowing the heat away from the grill and dutch ovens! Write Shop Robert cooked up brats while I burned the hotdogs, we served 50 brats and 123 hotdogs throughout the day, and this was just the snacks leading up to the main dish of bean soup made by BeenHere, corn chowder made by The SillyLords and an entire roast beef dinner made by Team Cammo...WOW, who'd have thought these guys could cook up such meals in a dutch oven?? Who won the cookoff?? Let's just say it was a TIE!! DIG IN ALL!!
After the closest-to-the-pin contest, the silent auction and the raffle was done and called, we hurried up to pack since the temperature slowly started dropping and the relentless winds truly made it chilly! A bit of work and LOTS of chatting and we were finally ready to head over to the campgrounds once again for another fireside chat and some s'mores!! Team was left behind, they had a wonderful apple cobbler in their dutch oven and couldn't leave when we did...but they were soon at camp and we were chowing down the cobbler, NICE! Darkness soon descended again, LHD III was starting to wind down! Since the forecast called for frost (in MAY???) and I had to rise at 4:30am to go to work (I had to mow greens at our family golf course), I decided Team Rod & Tod w/KAboom would head on down the highway for home which was a mere half hour west...warm bed and a shower were calling my name!
Sunday morning came waaay too early, I went in and mowed the greens before returning to the camp for the AWESOME breakfast! Lazy Hayes Days wouldn't be complete without the Snday morning breakfast, it's become a tradition for us, and this year was no different! Unfortunately, I return to find that everything was being held up by the lack of eggs which I was to supply...and had hidden away in my still set up tent! Oh well, no big deal, breakfast was now a GO and we ate and ate, WONDERFUL job LadyBee4T and the breakfast crew!! After the food came time to chat more with all the campers left over, but they slowly made their exits as well, leaving only a select few of us to sit and discuss the weekend...Write Shop Robert, LadyBee4T, Nurse Nanna, Lord Yatchman, KAboom and his friend as well as myself. Robert decided he'd go after the kayak cache we had hidden in the lake adjacent to the campgrounds while KAboom and I decided we'd head on home to watch the Red Wings win their opening game of the conference finals and LadyBee4, Nurse Nanna and Lord Yatchman were still busy packing up. Nurse Nanna had a slight touch of hypothermia (OUCH...it truly was cold all weekend), but recovered well!
This year's LHD was missing one of the hosts as my good friend and caching partner Tod was taken from us last year just two days after the MidWest GeoBash, this year's LHD was dedicated to our fallen friend and we made sure to spread bike awareness as well. Tod was taken when a careless driver pulled into his lane causing him to make a snap desicion which ended badly for Tod when his bike rolled over. We missed you Tod!
PLEASE drive safely and LOOK TWICE for bikes!! See you on the trails!
Rod
Team Rod & Tod w/KAboom
The Cachestalkers
The Cachestalkers
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