While things are still fresh in our heads, lets share things that we could maybe think about doing differently at the reunion next year. Here are some things to remember when you’re offering suggestions:
- The 4th is a Friday
- It will be a 3 day weekend
- Many people will arrive Thursday (July 3rd) evening and most of the rest sometime Friday
We decided after church to do this for meals (generally):
- Thursday evening: No meal, on your own
- Friday morning: Potluck breakfast sort of thing. (maybe we could define this?)
- Friday noon: At the dock & at the Spitz center as per aunt Naomi
- Friday evening: Bring a potluck side dish (meat provided)
- Saturday morning: Provided next generation breakfast as they decide
- Saturday noon: At the dock & at the Spitz center as per aunt Naomi (right?)
- Saturday evening: Bring a potluck side dish (meat provided maybe a different one, who knows)
- Sunday morning: Provided next generation breakfast as they decide
I’m going to go first, just to get things started. I’ll number my thoughts so that you can agree or disagree in the comments below. Actually, some of these are mine and some are things I heard people saying…
- Lines on both sides of the table for meals is a very good idea, especially now that we have so much more room.
- We need to get a more accurate count of people sooner in the process and share it with people who are buying things. We had enough Chicken for the number of people we had last year.
- Having a schedule hanging up was nice. We should try to make it a little more accurate time wise next year (but it was good to have anyway).
- I wonder if it would be useful to have a schedule done ahead of time to put on the website with the rest of the reunion information?
- Speaking of schedules, we should buy one of those Map Rails and put it up in the pavilion so we have somewhere to hang things.
- Anyone else like the idea of church at 10:30 instead of 10:00? I never get to eat breakfast on Sunday morning.
- We need to do a better job (probably here on the website, but maybe in emails too) telling people how much and what type of food to bring.
- Somewhere on the housing page of the reunion information we should add descriptions of the various housing facilities and what you should bring/expect at each one.
- Someone should bring some wood to make shelves for that one refrigerator at the pavilion.
- Another refrigerator in the pavilion would still be nice (we will need more space to store things during a 3 day weekend).
- Someone should remind Steve to ask someone to practice the hymns for church (not you guys didn’t sound lovely).
- We should wait until the Brothers & Sisters are all settled in before having everyone else come over for pictures (I messed that up this year).
- Musical chairs should take place before an evening meal rather than after the ball game (someone suggested this).
- We could pass out the song books and in-between acts of the talent show we could sing songs.
- Christina should buy a Gator and trailer for uncle Lloyd for Christmas so that he can bring it to Heit’s Point. Maybe he wouldn’t need a trailer? Would a gator fit in the back of the pickup? Would 2 fit on Danny’s trailer? I just think it would be useful to have another one down there.
- It might be nice to get Debbie & Becky’s Dock Lunch Assignments(tm) posted on the website for people who lose theirs (not that that has ever happened to me).
- Someone should remind Lloyd to print up a list of everyone in the family in such a way that people can fill in birthdays, anniversaries and such. He’s been meaning to do that for several years.
- All of the books that Lloyd brought to the reunion were gone pretty quickly. Does that mean he should have more printed for next time? It’s so hard to know. Did anyone not get one who wanted one? I should have asked that after church. What was I thinking?
- The paper copies of the website had address books printed in the back. Should I print so additional copies of just the addresses for people?
- Printing names on the bottom of cups was a really good idea. We should encourage people to do that on their own, so that someone doesn’t have to spend 20 minutes doing it.
- How did musical chairs go this year? Someone said something at one time about asking people to bring “gently used” children’s books that their kids have out grown to put books back in circulation.
- We didn’t have people bring “interesting” things to scan to put on the website this year. Should we do that again next year?
Okay, that’s all I can think of. Feel free to chime in about any of these. You can be in favor of them, against them or just say something about them.
And please add your own suggestions in the comments as well.