Laura - will Brendan be joining you this year?
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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.
Aims - Feb 25, 2009 3:14:29 am PST #571 of 12685
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Laura - Feb 25, 2009 3:30:50 am PST #572 of 12685
Our wings are not tired.
Well, if I tell him you will be there he will be persuaded.
We really missed going last year, particularly since it was the first one we had missed. He likes Seattle. I'm going to try and make it happen. It would likely involve combining family vacation with F2F vacation and staying a bit longer. The nice thing about the boys being teens now is that they can entertain themselves while we do our thing.
Aims - Feb 25, 2009 3:38:49 am PST #573 of 12685
Shit's all sorts of different now.
We're still trying to see if it's going to be doable for us since we already have a lot of summer traveling going on. I'm hoping we can make it!! I'd love to bring Emeline, too. I think her and Princess Tickybox need to meet.
Toddson - Feb 25, 2009 5:19:47 am PST #574 of 12685
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I don't know ... get those two together and who knows what'll happen ... a double lethal cuteness bomb, perhaps!
amych - Feb 25, 2009 5:30:00 am PST #575 of 12685
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
A lethal cuteness ARMAGEDDON!
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 25, 2009 7:07:07 am PST #576 of 12685
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Hotel Nexus? Ha! It's literally 5 minutes from the House of Reason. It is quite a ways north of downtown Seattle but if there's complimentary shuttles then that's completely not an issue.
To give a little sense of where it is, it is right next door to I-5 (oh, and a gas station, yuck). if I-5 traffic is light you're looking at 15 to 20 minutes to downtown Seattle. If traffic is bad, anything up to an hour.
There is an excellent Indian restaurant called the Saffron Grill right in front of the hotel. Northgate Mall is 5 minutes walk (though not a walk I'd want to do at night) and the Mall has a number of other restaurants and a bunch of shopping. However, that's about all there is for foot traffic.
It seems pretty good, but I will be interested to see what else Juliana has to show.
SuziQ - Feb 25, 2009 7:22:34 am PST #577 of 12685
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
There is an excellent Indian restaurant called the Saffron Grill
Is that the place we went a couple of years ago? Nom, nom, nom. I'm not sure if I can make it out for the F2F, any extra money goes to my college kid these days.
meara - Feb 25, 2009 7:42:46 am PST #578 of 12685
it is right next door to I-5 (oh, and a gas station, yuck)
And across from another gas station....but in that gas station is a Starbucks (which, granted is SOOOO not anything like the best coffee Seattle has, but will help some of you) AND the yummy yummy taco truck, mmmm, the taco truck....
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Feb 25, 2009 8:09:57 am PST #579 of 12685
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Oh yeah, the taco truck. I've heard good things, but since I live near Gorditos, I don't really go for Mexican anywhere else.
Suzi, I don't remember which Indian you went to. I can tell you it wasn't the Saffron Grill as it has only been open for 8 months or so. However, the Saffron Grill is run by the people who used to run Cedars in the U District.
P.M. Marc - Feb 25, 2009 9:35:34 am PST #580 of 12685
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
To give a little sense of where it is, it is right next door to I-5 (oh, and a gas station, yuck). if I-5 traffic is light you're looking at 15 to 20 minutes to downtown Seattle. If traffic is bad, anything up to an hour.
If it's light, more like 5-10 to Downtown. It's only five miles north. 15-20 to SoDo, where the baseball lives, but 5-10 to the Downtown exits.
I mena, when we lived in Beacon Hill, it was generally only a 10-15 minute drive to the Northgate Target (due east of the Hotel), and we were five miles south of Downtown.
If traffic is bad, you zip to 99, and you're Downtown in 15-20.