I've not joined in because I don't know if I can financially swing it and there are a few (okay, several) balls up in the air about my schedule for this summer. Since I don't know if I'll be able to go due to either schedule or money or both, then I can sit back and see how things shake out.
Kaylee: Can I? Zoe: Sure. He's out, though. Kaylee: He did this for me, once.
'Safe'
F2F5: I forget that everyone isn't us
Plan what to do, what to wear (you can never go wrong with a corset), and get ready for the next BuffistaCon.
ChiKat - Mar 17, 2010 6:34:01 pm PDT #5378 of 12708
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
omnis_audis - Mar 17, 2010 7:49:23 pm PDT #5379 of 12708
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Although I would love to go, especially NYC or Philly. Due to new job, I won't have vacation time until November or so.
erin_obscure - Mar 17, 2010 11:33:54 pm PDT #5380 of 12708
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
I am highly interested and have been doing the polls but have no useful input in this thread aside from wheeeee! i lucked out with awesome vacation time this year and will likely be on the east coast visiting with the fam during most of the potential weekends, so it'll just be a matter of slipping away from VA.
javachik - Mar 18, 2010 3:16:27 am PDT #5381 of 12708
Our wings are not tired.
Quick update: Le Meridien Philadelphia has no accessible rooms (it's in an old Georgian building with no lifts) so I've cancelled that bid.
Pix - Mar 18, 2010 5:06:37 am PDT #5382 of 12708
The status is NOT quo.
Thank you, but stop working, Java! Go play!
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 18, 2010 6:08:20 am PDT #5383 of 12708
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I'm definitely interested, and hopeful I can swing time off this year since work exploded right at the time I was signed up for vacation last year and I ended up losing leave time at year's end. (Father's Day weekend was my only absolute no-can-do date; Dad's 74 and has already outlived all the men of his family for generations back, so there's no way I'm skipping out on one of these holidays.) Money will be the determining factor for me.
Toddson - Mar 18, 2010 7:40:07 am PDT #5384 of 12708
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I've been following along and I want to go - and should actually be able to (finances permitting). I just haven't had anything to say.
megan walker - Mar 18, 2010 9:24:17 am PDT #5385 of 12708
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
A quick note from a former colleague who lives in Philly:
Warwick, Le Meridien, and Crown Plaza are all centered right in the middle of center city. The Best Western is 8 blocks from my house and is in a more residential part of the city (though across the street from the Rodin Museum and down the block from the Art Museum).
javachik - Mar 18, 2010 9:43:55 am PDT #5386 of 12708
Our wings are not tired.
Yeah, I think there are a couple of Crown Plazas - the one who sent us a quote is over near Fairmount Park. I think it has a free shuttle into Center City anyway.
I love to walk right out my door and be "in the city", but Madison wasn't like that and I still had fun. The Crown Plaza is the cheapest, most inclusive option so far. But I would be okay with any of the places, and I am choosy about my hotels.
Trudy Booth - Mar 18, 2010 11:56:59 am PDT #5387 of 12708
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I just heard back from the Weehakwen Sheraton, our rooms would be $139 a night for either weekend.