Giovanna wrote:

Holy shit, that would be thoroughly awesome. Parental supervision will definitely make for a lot of ammo for the underage group getting up here. We are most of us adults but I realize '23 year old' doesn't sound as good as 'parents'.

I figure your mom and her bf won't be around us much Razara, but if they have any questions they're certainly free to ask or call me at odd hours asking how to get to here or there.

They won't count as parental supervision for anyone that's not staying with me, and even then they'll probably be gone about 80% of the time. I don't plan on letting them stay any longer than they have to. (I'm rather embarrassed that they're coming at all.) So far my mother's been pretty good about all this. She's agreeing to let me go, and she was even awesome enough to agree to letting dollface could stay with us if she can.

Edit: The main condition to letting me go, I assume, is that Kealdrea stays with me at all times, so you'll all get to meet her, too.

Last edited by Razara (08-04-2007 05:27:25 PM)

Razara, we'd all be delighted to meet Kealdrea, and I know mom , but I think it's awesome of her that she's letting you come. I realize it's not parental supervision as a group but it does lend street cred, as it were, to the operation to say there are parents involved.

As for TDS/TCR, seems Colbert's backed up right now but we're months down the road. If we did something like this it would have to be one or the other, but I personally am totally up equally for either of them since I want to have both their babies.

The Something Awful forums did a TDS NYC goon meet a while back, I might buy the forum archives and dig up the thread and see how they went about it if this is a serious option for us.

Oh oh...lotta book nerds on here too. Whether it's a group activity or not, let me be the first to mention THE STRAND. If you like books, you'll have 10000 orgasms there. First time Yasha and I went we dropped 400 between the two of us. Sounds like a lot? We had so many books we had to buy the canvas bags to carry them. Second time? I got slammed with overweight at the airport because my bag weighed 85 pounds. Most of it was books. This might be a fun thing to do in a small group just for the sheer enthusiasm and the size of the place.

Giovanna wrote:

Oh oh...lotta book nerds on here too. Whether it's a group activity or not, let me be the first to mention THE STRAND. If you like books, you'll have 10000 orgasms there. First time Yasha and I went we dropped 400 between the two of us. Sounds like a lot? We had so many books we had to buy the canvas bags to carry them. Second time? I got slammed with overweight at the airport because my bag weighed 85 pounds. Most of it was books. This might be a fun thing to do in a small group just for the sheer enthusiasm and the size of the place.

....oh my God.  That is...oh, my.  Must go there.  Paradox might have to pad some time on the end of our trip just to take care of everything.  And find a post office to ship books back.

I'll go with you to the UN, Clarice!   I prefer to assume that people will be there rather than not.

Frosty wrote:

to this day, my mother thinks I have some paintings circulating around in a little art gallery in Kansas

I wish I could say that Kansas was a bad choice, but the fact is, if terrorists nuked Wichita, no one outside the state would ever know.

Hinotori wrote:

I'm in if my job doesn't eat me alive.

Damn right you're in.

Giovanna wrote:

As for mass transit, DO NOT BE AFRAID. Mass transit is fun, cheap, and perfectly safe unless you wave your money around like a jackass, which is a dumb idea anywhere you go. I know the subway system, and though there's a map in every station, you will all be free to call me on my cell and ask how the hell to get where. (I will be handing out my cell, and I would request for all of you that have phones to at least give me your number, if not share it with others.

It's not the kind of people one could encounter on mass transit that scares me somewhat (I can take care of myself), it's the whole catching connecting buses, etc, and not getting lost in an unfamiliar city that gets me.

Baka Kakumei Reanna wrote:

I'm saving up to immigrate my fiance to the US. The petition fee alone is around $450, so unless I come into some major dough, I don't think it'll happen. But hey, we'll see!

Yeah, the petition fee is just the start. This is a terrible time to try to come into the states.

Razara wrote:

I remember someone on the mafia thread mentioning the a game of mafia with ten people would only take about 45 minutes in real life. Maybe we could try a real game of mafia when we all get together?

That would actually be really cool.

My academic semester ends May 23. Well, it might be May 22, but it's finals week and I don't know what days my finals will be on... if I can afford it, I'll be there. It's that simple.

And I'm tempted to say that we should bill this as a convention to make it look a bit more, ah, reputable. I'll certainly be telling my family that it's a convention so that they don't go nuts worrying about me while I'm gone.

Maarika wrote:

I have to do a lot of research about this 'cause my quick search showed me that there's probably no plane going straight to NY from here.

Well, if for some reason you need to come through Orlando (why, I wouldn't know) you can stay with me and my folks if you need a layover or anything. I'm only about 15 minutes from OIA. That offer is open for Gio and Satyr as well (and anyone who might have to make a long layover). If you want to fly out from OIA, you're more then welcome to crash here the night before so that you don't have get up quite as early -I dunno about you guys, but I'm planning on catching a redeye.

Although flights will probably be cheaper from where y'all are at.

If we can get a good idea of numbers, I'd say we should look into convention rates. You can usually get a decent discount for blocks, as opposed to single books.

My vote is for during the week, as rates are the cheapest, both flight wise, and usually hotelwise. I'll probably aim to make a week out of it -probably tuesday to tuesday. Usually group blocks are easier to accomodate when we're talking about a weekday los, too.


Assuming everyone wants to stay at the same place.

Last edited by morosemocha (08-05-2007 01:30:31 AM)

Nope. There's no discount for the length of time between your travel dates, really, only the days of travel. Friday-Monday are torture, ESPECIALLY where central florida airports are concerned -my last flight in from DC was miserable. So. Many. Goddamn. Children. The fucking Disney express.

Edit: I can only get two rooms tops on my personal discount, after that it's the Family discount which is a third to twice as much (and also only two rooms). So it'd be more feasible depending on the group rates. But really, I'd rather wait to start doing group inquiries until we have a better idea, numberwise.

Last edited by morosemocha (08-05-2007 01:37:49 AM)

If you don't mind techinically being in New Jersey, the best I've got so far is 49 bucks a night at the Hilton by George Washington Bridge. I'll keep looking, but so far that one's pretty consistantly coming up with availability. I can also call, which I may do sooner or later, because the Millenium Hilton would be sweet. There's also a Hampton Inn on Lexington, but they won't gurantee a non smoking room. Although 29 bucks a night might persuade me anyway. Keep in mind, I can only get two rooms at that price which means maybe eight people, tops. And three spots (myself included) are already spoken for.


Also, splitting headache. Damn site is too slow.

Maarika wrote:

Ugh, I've never really travelled abroad very often before, and never on my own, so I don't know much about these things. :/

This is something you need to get over sometime, don't you think? And wouldn't you like to go for it at a time when there will be such lovely people waiting for you on the other end? I mean, Mocha, Gio, and Yasha will be there for sure! And half-a-dozen other beautiful women are fairly likely as well. If you do think you'll be able to make it, make sure you don't room alone, that way you're less likely to get lost on the way to stuff.

Well, if for some reason you need to come through Orlando (why, I wouldn't know) you can stay with me and my folks if you need a layover or anything. I'm only about 15 minutes from OIA. That offer is open for Gio and Satyr as well (and anyone who might have to make a long layover).

Too bad a KC flight isn't likely to go through Orlando...