STUFF TO BRING/NOT BRING:

Just a reminder that we run a karaoke bar and are gracious hosts to many people throughout the week.  This is the "theme" to our "theme camp."

What to bring (your "camp contribution" per person):

• 1-2 handles of liquor per person, preferably top-shelf, for the bar (change of strategy, bring glass) 

• a few bottles of mixers or a couple cases of soda/juice per person, for the bar. Mixers are the thing we always run out of!

• if you bring beer, please bring it in CANS -- TJ's has a great white ale in a can, and pabst/tecate rules!

• SNACKS!  We're snacking the shit out of this town. Whatever your snack may be, bring enough to snack strangers! Cheese & chips are a really great snack option. We burned through blowtorched nachos last year like it was our job. And Tang (we actually ran out last year).

• If you are sober/non-drinker, please bring some mixers and/or some other magical substitute with which to share your awesomeness.  Our mission is to build experience and community, so as long as you "bring it", no worries!

• a tent/sleeping arrangement, food, & water for the week.  Please pre-arrange with your camping sub-group to have a grey-water, shower, and kitchen strategy.

OTHER TO BRING: STRONGLY SUGGESTED

• Bike parts to fix bikes (highly suggested) (tubes, patch kits)

• Work gloves/latex gloves  (highly suggested) for cleaning/work

• Bailey's  bring a bottle for morning coffee.  it goes fast... if everyone brings one, it will last...

• Rechargeable AA batteries, cheapo OK. Even though we turn the lights off, the batteries in the solar lamps die from lack of use.

          If you have AA rechargeables, bring them. They don't need to be perfect, so if you think it is time to buy new ones for your keyboard 
          bring the old ones with you... they are probably good enough for a solar lamp.

We decided that the high-classitude of showing off our top-shelf shit in the real bottles is worth the trouble of packing them out. So the new guideline: bring good liquor in glass bottles, and when you leave take some bottles home with you. When you get home, buy some Vodka of the Gods, pour it into your nice playa-dusted Ketel One bottle. Place the bottle on your mantle and wait until you forget that it's really full of the cheap stuff, then serve it to guests at a party.

Cans are still better for beer, unless you're buying Delirium Tremens, which only comes in a bottle. In that situation, get the big bottles and share some with me.

Supplies/Items We Need:

See 2013 Budget for a more up to date and specific list.

If you can help us with supplies, that would be awesome. The list below breaks out what's needed and where it can be obtained. Please put your name next to an item you're gonna bring, so we know it's coming.

Don't want to be responsible for a particular item from the list below? AND/OR want to help out the process with a little more cash? THANK YOU!! Here's the link for donating:http://thehammockhangout.com/#donate.

• Flat-pack chairs & cushions, www.playatech.com 
• 2x4's, general use 
• Additional LED and/or rope lights for perimeter (200' role) 
• Small Coleman propane tanks for kitchen (need to restock): Gas lantern mantles: Northstar #2000-043R, 433 Northstar, #R132-043C (we are bringing at least 2...) 
• Extra ladders: We could use a few, but you can bring it back home with you after the event. (Ideally several early arrivals will bring one and take them back home after the event.)
• LIGHTING: we are still looking for a lead on evening light strategy for the hammock hangout/kitchen: 
• Better lighting in shade areas & kitchen
• Lighting strategy for bar/rope lights for ground
• Lighting strategy for inside hammock hangout
• KARAOKE LOUNGE DESIGN: 
• Red Curtain, Lights & flashing light or strobe/APPLAUSE SIGN that lights up/strobes, for stellar karaoke performances...   

Don't Bring:

• Glow Sticks (whatever, hippie raver) 
• Glass beer bottles (love beer, hate the bottles) 
• Seeded watermelons (go seedless!) or really any seeded melons. They make a hell of a mess! Maybe just don't bring any watermelons. They seem like a good idea but it almost never works out.
• Packaging. Please minimize the amount of trash you bring to the Playa!