Meekerfest
Meekerfest
Endless count of kids running crazy, many sleepless nights, bright and early mornings, without having a worry in the world, Meekerfest. Meekerfest is the one time of the year that we are able to get my whole family together for a reunion. It always takes place the first weekend of August. There is a small campground in Woodbine, Iowa that is commonly known as Willow Lake. Throughout the whole week before the weekend of the first in August, many family members make their way to the campground to start camping. Just about every year we have all of the campgrounds and even the six cabins rented out.
The week starts out with multiple people all coming at different times to set up their campers and/or their tents. We have two separate sides, the Meeker side and the Kinsella side. When you pull into Willow Lake, you will see the lake on your right, you continue around a few corners and you enter your first loop of campgrounds, this is where the Kinsella’s’ camp. You continue around this loop and you enter into the second loop where the Meeker’s camp. As soon as the families get there, the kids are running out of the cars to go and play, they don’t come back around until it is time to come and eat dinner or if they are tattling on another kid. As the week carries on, plenty more people show up. Throughout the first couple days parents just sit around and catch up on life. When it starts to get later in the evening, the adults head over to the horseshoe pits, where you will find them every night of the rest of the week. Friday nights are the big nights. Fish Fri Friday, we set up a huge cooking area on the Kinsella side where all of the family helps out to prepare a big dinner. Once the meal is prepared, it gets set up on a long table then everyone makes their way through the line. Once everybody is finished eating everybody helps to clean up the mess and do all the dishes, the fun part! After this is finished, we head back to the horseshoe pit. Saturday
Endless count of kids running crazy, many sleepless nights, bright and early mornings, without having a worry in the world, Meekerfest. Meekerfest is the one time of the year that we are able to get my whole family together for a reunion. It always takes place the first weekend of August. There is a small campground in Woodbine, Iowa that is commonly known as Willow Lake. Throughout the whole week before the weekend of the first in August, many family members make their way to the campground to start camping. Just about every year we have all of the campgrounds and even the six cabins rented out.
The week starts out with multiple people all coming at different times to set up their campers and/or their tents. We have two separate sides, the Meeker side and the Kinsella side. When you pull into Willow Lake, you will see the lake on your right, you continue around a few corners and you enter your first loop of campgrounds, this is where the Kinsella’s’ camp. You continue around this loop and you enter into the second loop where the Meeker’s camp. As soon as the families get there, the kids are running out of the cars to go and play, they don’t come back around until it is time to come and eat dinner or if they are tattling on another kid. As the week carries on, plenty more people show up. Throughout the first couple days parents just sit around and catch up on life. When it starts to get later in the evening, the adults head over to the horseshoe pits, where you will find them every night of the rest of the week. Friday nights are the big nights. Fish Fri Friday, we set up a huge cooking area on the Kinsella side where all of the family helps out to prepare a big dinner. Once the meal is prepared, it gets set up on a long table then everyone makes their way through the line. Once everybody is finished eating everybody helps to clean up the mess and do all the dishes, the fun part! After this is finished, we head back to the horseshoe pit. Saturday