Geo Mega Event

Tonight we are having a meeting about what we are going to do for the October 21st event. I have postponed posting the event until I know a few more details. I was afraid the Geoevent on October 21st at some time and somewhere check back later would probably not go over well at this time. Hopefully tonight we will nail down the details and go over the lessons learned from the last party. We had a really good turn out this time and hopefully with all the donations from all the different companies that help geocaching we will have enough for everyone to leave with a little something more than a full belly. This is my preconceptions of what the party will be like. The event will start at or around 1 o'clock pm so that we will have ample morning time to get everything ready. We will start with a meet and greet until about 2pm where we will post coordinantes for the 7 or 8 contest caches. That's where everyone will leave and go caching in the near area. In the contest caches will be a container with poker chips with numbers indicating which cache they came from it them. The cacher will pick up a chip at all caches to trade them in on a playing card when they get back to the event. The best poker hand will win the grand prize and then we will have the best Texas holdem hand for a second place winner. This will all happen while we stuff ourselves with eats. We will probably provide tea and hotdogs for everyone and ask that everyone that attends bring a covered dish or desert. After the drawing we will converse around the bonfire and when it gets dark we will have a haunted hay ride that will take us to a local cemetery, where if people are interested, we are going to have a real Ghost Hunter from the Crawford County Illinois Ghost Hunters Society to show us how to do and investigation and how to use some of the equipment. After that we will return to the event and that will wrap things up for the night. Also all through the event we will have drawings for door prizes. I think this will make for a nice event. This is just preliminary and will probably change about a half a dozen times before it is settled. We will also be offering shirts with the event logo on them and also be offering the event geocoin that Pilot designed. The only people who will be able to get a coin will be people who attend the event. I am a little partial but it is an awesome coin. Hope to see everyone there. Keep a lookout for The Cache Slash Event 2006 in Southern Illinois. Happy Caching!