Any other DCers available?

I'm on the fence for Friday until I get a better idea of where/when because I'll have to coordinate care of our puppy and who has the car when with my DH.

x-posty with Press:

Not meaning to nag, but if people have an interest in having a Midwest F2F this year, we really need to get make decisions and take action. If there isn't interest this year, please ignore me, but I would hate to go much longer and not be able to have one at all.

So far the only city that has been officially pimped is Madison by SailAweigh, but we'd also talked about St. Louis, Memphis, Ann Arbor...so here's the pimpage info I'd posted a few months ago based on what we've done in the past. I think it's probably too late for the earlier dates, but I'll throw it all there FYI.

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Things we need to decide:

When? Range for possible weekends (defined by Saturday): March 22, March 29, April 5, April 12, April 19, April 26, May 3, May 10, May 17, May 24, May 31, June 7, June 14, June 21, June 28.

Where? All nominations should have a contact person (preferably local).

Where 2? Hotel/Prom location (trying to keep as close to $100 for rooms as possible)

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For pimping, I suggest the following format:

MY CITY PIMPAGE

Why here? Description of why your town/city rocks like a rocking thing. Past pimpage has included weather, links to fun events/museums/things to do, etc.

Initial Hotel/Prom Possibilities A few hotels you've looked into so far with tentative group rates and Prom locations/catering/bar/closeness to hotel, etc.

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Several of us have handled hotel reservations in the past for Buffistas, so feel to ask if you need further clarification. I did NOLA and still have that schtuff somewhere.

Here is a link to Sail's proposal: SailAweigh "F2F 4: Too Much Candy, Never Enough Mojitos." Dec 3, 2007 8:07:13 am PST

In the meantime, if people are interested, perhaps meet in the F2F thread and start putting it together?

Yes! Let's get this going. I'm not in any of the above, but happy to help out however I can.

I'm the nearest to Memphis, but I really don't think it's a good choice for a F2F city. Downtown has attractions and a limited form of neat public transportation (the trolleys), but also lots of crime and no decent inexpensive hotels that I'm aware of. And outside that zone, public transportation is awful and affordable lodging tends to be in places where there's nothing else around.

I could check on Heartbreak Hotel if we want to try a Graceland-themed F2F, but I realize that might not appeal to all and there's not much that isn't Elvis-centric in that part of town.

I'd always be happy to play tour guide if a smaller group that can fit in one vehicle wants to visit sometime.

Just to keep everyone up to date, I've sent out a request to the Madison visitor and convention bureau for hotel proposals. I requested that all the hotels get their info into me by Jan. 25th. Hopefully, room prices will be within our spending limits.

Can we just say Madison looks good and let's decide on a date? Just to move forward quickly. And because Madison does look good, and while many other places would also be good, gathering the info would take time.

Ann Arbor/Detroit doesn't hold much in the way of F2F friendly activities, either. Unless you like gambling and drug buying.

Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit Zoo, off the top of my head. Fox Theatre and the other one (I forget it's name), Tigers games, what else?

Madison is fine with me! Maybe we should post a Press announcement giving anyone with other cities to pimp a day or two to voice their opinions before making the de facto decision that we're going with that city?

Joe Louis Arena!

Oh. You aren't all hockey fans, huh?