The 2011 May Long is in the books and it was another classic! The weekend started out with blue skies and with a boat that wouldn't start. Ken Lazeroff(Kyler and Colton's dad.) helped out and got us all over to Treadmill.(Thanks Ken!)(Jeremy and dad later got our boat started.) Once on Treadmill it was time to set up. I never get tired of setting up camp on Treadmill! Jeremy showed up Friday night in time to put up the tarp with the help of the J-Man. The tarp was set up just in time as later Friday night the rain came.(I am so thankful for that tarp!) Saturday more guys showed up filling the beach with tents. Thanks to the Alumni that came out! Altogether we had around thirty guys on the beach. Saturday night was our sixth annual May Long Cribbage tourney. Tyler and Maxwell played d-Pod and Eli in the final. Tyler and Max won the first game but the Pods stormed back with two straight wins to take the title! David joins Abe as the only two guys to have won the tourney twice.
Sunday morning the rain really showed up and it looked at first like it might not stop. Fortunately the rain did stop and the sun came out and dried the tents! On Sunday Jonathan Fojt completed the Memory Work for the first time! It was my highlight of the weekend to have Tyler and Jason give Jonathan his Battalion Medallion! This is what I love about Battalion! Watching the Alumni get involved and give back is a beautiful thing!
We have been trying to change the length of the May Long for the past couple of years but were never sure how to do it. If we showed up on Saturday then Treadmill would already be full and if we stay from Friday until Monday then it seems like we are there a little too long. So if we go out Friday morning and come home Sunday afternoon(Like we did this year.)then we get two nights and three days on the beach.(This is about the right length of time.) This is what we are going to try again next year.
Again thanks to everyone who came out! It was an amazing weekend!
Can't wait for May Long 2012!
THE CAPTAIN
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