I will go ahead and tell him to start putting one on corn and clean him out if yall want

Brian, when it gets butchered, make sure somebody rubs the little porker in salt, or we'll put him in a brine solution on Friday. I've located a place in Little Rock (hour away) that rents big grills so I'll make arrangement (or vondy might could and we all can chip in the pot for expenses or something). http://www.rentalhq.com/MemSiteNav8.asp?alt=partytimerentala ndeventscom&pg=656 I'll call this place tomorrow and get more info on it. Vondy do you know of a rental place in Hot Springs?  I'm gonna forget about the deep fat frying method . It won't have the rotessior but I'll just have to manage on the turning of the porker. Oh and we may be coming Thurs afternoon instead of Friday, so Brian, we could possibly cook the porker Friday night before bed. We could all join together and have a group pic done if it isn't dark by then. Like to get another group pic on Saturday when we all on the boats.

Wife got an answer back from some place and they put us on to somebody in Hot Springs, AR with a towable smoker, will contact them Monday to see what kind of arrangments we can make on it.

Charles,

Both my boys will probably come. Either way put me down for 4. I got the pig ordered today. The local place skins them so couldn't process mine but he is getting a 60# pig from another place which he said would dress around 30-35# and feed 15-20 people well. It will have skin on. Did you get my PM last night about my wife being able to help with warmers, etc.?

Well, I'm back to square 1 on where we can all gather to eat this porker and sides at. Vondy you got any suggestions as I can't visualize the area and don't know where anything is. Is there anything at all land based where those handicapped don't have to be hoisted on/off the toons and preferably very close to Clarion Resort? Or, what other floating docks/launch areas are there that would be convenient so I can access my vehicle at the due time to go get the porker? We could have one big tailgate party of sorts (I sure hope its not in the high 90's in the shade if we can find shade)  

Ok, now we're cooking. I ended up calling Holiday Inn Express which is the closest place to Clarion Resort (1 mile). I got the Breakfast Room which can accomadate 55 people for $50 for the 1st 2 hrs. We can't get into it until 12 noon Saturday. So since it'll take almost an hour to go to and bring back the porker from Malvern, AR we could start lunch at 12:30 pm, which gives us an hour and 30min, and half hour prior to get everything setup however we're going to set it up (which I'll call Brian's wife on). If we want it for longer, its $25hr after the 1st 2 hours (so means we'll need to clean up at least 15min prior to 2pm).

Does that sound good to everyone? Suggestions are truly welcomed

Ok, done with Brian's wife (thank your wife for me Brian ) she's fixing potatoe salad and will supply warmers for hot food and she mentioned they'll fix 2 big cans of beans.  So here's what else we'll need.

Heavy Duty plastic tableware (you know, those clear knifes, spons and forks), my wife will bring serving spons, forks and a couple knifes.

Bread (hamburger buns if you want pulled pork) and sliced bread

BBQ Sauce (or any other sauce of your choice)

Tea (Brian's wife suggested a local walgreens or something - Red Diamond) Sweet & UnSweet, those that want anything else, BYOD (bring your own drink - like me - diet pepsi)

ICE

Big red type cups (stout and holds plenty)

Any little dish you'd like to bring     - Ok so that's a start

Thought I'd share this Google Earth image I did of the area around the hotel. A marks where the hotel is located. To the southwest, you'll see the marina. I actually did do a close up of the hotel area and saw that they have several slips there, just don't know how big they actually are but I scoped out the whole lake looking for points to fish from and you can see to the southeast a little island that slopes off to the east from that little island and my bet there'll be some fish to the southeast of that slope, also around the west side of the overpass by the hotel, between the hotel and marina looks like more good spots

Boat slips seen in this pic from above the hotel area

I'm there for you guys, We'll get the rolls, tea, cups & dinnerware