HICKMANFEST

HICKMANFEST VI

Great weekend.  It was nice to be home for a week and see the family.  Amy was there with Max and Ben and we got to spend a lot of time swimming and playing with them.  It was great seeing all our friends from home, especially having the weekend party at the camp everyone gathers around together.  I even unexpectedly got to see Cassie.  She had to come up because her grandpa, the ultimate joke teller, passed away and she was up from NC.

Hickmanfest VI officially started at 12:00 on Friday.  Annie and Tia started it with a shot of tequila as Jake pulled up with the trailer packed full with 15 kegs.   People started coming down the dirt road all afternoon and found places to set up their tents.  The yard was full of people playing games all evening.  We had a fire going cooking hotdogs and people brought down a ton of food that night. Last year's record for last man standing was Eric Winger.  He made it to 6:52 (microwave time) and that record was crushed this year.  There was about of dozen of us that made it up until Craig came down around 9am with Clark's doughnuts and cooked eggs and crepes! A few of us were even swimming int he river just after sunrise.  Shawn Winger and I were having swimming races up river.  Somehow I lost at that, but won the headstand contest.  After I ate breakfast I crashed for a couple hours in the tent before it got unbearably hot.  Saturday and Sunday typically become pretty blurred together.  It was an unbeatable weekend.  The only thing we had to worry about was the tide coming in while we were in the river playing flip cup all day.  (Nothing to worry about because the river has no tide!) haha  Although someone was going to check out the time of the tides on his smart phone the first time that was said.   Sunday funday started pretty darn early with Chad Clark sending a picture of his first beer of the day to Jake probably around 7:30am.  I'm not sure how late anyone stayed up Saturday night, but I'm guessing there wasn't more than a few hours the whole weekend that someone wasn't awake with a beer in hand.

Saturday Jake actually had to order 4 more kegs.   Ann was in the kitchen making some good mac and cheese, Norm made his famous Nachooooos, Aunt Amy dominated on the beer pong table, we had some randoms floating down river that stopped in for a few flip cup games. We kicked the last one Sunday night at 12pm but Allison had some warm budlight lime that we could keep the party going late into Sunday night.  Melissa was the first to decide it'd be cool for everyone to lift the kegs up over our heads.  So they were being passed out and the Varsity squad was all there celebrating. 


The whole weekend was such a blast.  We had people come from Atlanta (Cara & Linda), Washington DC (Firas) , Rhode Island (Ryan), and even Alaska (Brucker).   Unfortunately my ipod came up missing, and I'm not so sure we'll have another Hickmanfest of this scale again.... It was one to remember though.