You know you want to camp with us, so mark your calendar and send me a note. We need to make sure we have enough sites reserved and have enough food for Saturday's dinner, so please send me an email. If you have friends who are interested, forward the invite to them as well. New Info about the campout: We're extending the campout to start on Thursday, June 5th. Let me know if you're coming early. Tours of Surly are available Friday evening, June 6th from 6pm to 8pm. Register directly on Surly's web site: http://www.surlybrewing.com/tours.php We'll have several jockey boxes, so bring your kegs. We have the use of a building until 7pm Friday and Saturday. We can also use the patio outside the pool, yes, they have an indoor pool! So, bring your bathing suit. Rick is planning a gourmet meal! Be sure to sign up with an email to me so we plan for enough food. Reduced cost for kids is $1. If you have workshop cutoffs of small pieces of wood, please bring some for FireJenga. Small pieces only, please. If you have an award plaque from last year's competition, please bring it unless you know you will win again. Current schedule: Thursday start Friday Rahr tour 2pm Surly tour 6pm-8pm Saturday Winery tour 1pm-3pm Dinner 6pm FireJenga 9pm Inter-club competition TBD Sunday cleanup and depart Previous information: The weather's finally making camping look interesting, so here's the plan for this summer's All-Club Campout. Dates: Friday, June 6 through Sunday, June 8 Location: Minneapolis Southwest KOA, 3315 West 166th Street, Jordan, MN (yeah, it's pretty far southwest of downtown) take 169 18 miles South from 494.....it's between milepost 102 and 103 http://www.koa.com/where/mn/23112/ They have an indoor pool, miniature golf, a playground for any juveniles in the group (you know who you are) and a small store for supplies. We're working on plans for a tour of Rahr Malting on Friday and Crofut Winery and Vineyard on Saturday. Also a gourmet dinner Saturday and of course, FireJenga. If you've got some scrap wood to contribute, please bring it along. Cost is $15 per tent per night. We'll put 2 tents on each official 'site' in the campground. RV's/pop-ups will take a full site at $30/night. We have sites 84 to 93 and 112, 113 reserved. There's a grass area to the left of 112 that we'll use after we fill up the reserved sites. Saturday dinner is $5. Our Executive Chef - Rick Oftel - promises a gourmet meal! So, mark your calendars and air out your tents and sleeping bags. If you know people in other clubs who may want to attend, please let them know, as well. Also, please let me know if you're planning to attend. We need to know the number of people and the number of tents/RVs and pop-ups. We also need to know the number of people attending the Saturday dinner so we can plan supplies. thanks! see ya at the campout! //Mike Behrendt MGBrew(a)comcast.net