Where in Florida was that, Laura?

Sandpiper which is about an hour north of me in Port St. Lucie. If that was the one you went to and your bitching got them to change their tune I thank you ever so much!

I had a great time and the boys did too. Brendon not so much, but he was in the middle of a nasty project and had 6 laptops set up in the room to complete. I think the staff thought we were spies or something. Also, since I am half asleep and rambling I should mention that had a circus setup where they taught people trapeze flying and so forth. They were so awesome to watch wearing nothing but itty bitty tight shorts practicing and teaching. Alas, my horror of the thought of climbing up the ladder to the wire would not allow me to try.

The comedy portion of said circus act had my face covered in tears and my whole body aching from laughing so hard.

On topic: Woo! I see that we have a date. We have been discussing New Orleans for some time so I somewhat prefer that. Denver would be tough for me because I suffer horribly for about 3 days when I hit altitude. Stupid aclimation to sea level.

I don't know what ours was called -- it was a work trip, so free. It was very disappointing to not be able to get hammered on the company dime, but we got hammered anyway. And played midnight volleyball, and snarked at everyone. It was force-fun, and horrible. The staff we ended up bonding with hated this part of their resort rotation, because it was all golf-loving newlyweds, so they didn't get much attention, and more importantly, no one was buying them drinks.

Plus you had to drive to the beach.

There was trapeze, and I did leave with a crush on the trapeze teacher, who'd run away from grad school to join the circus. Mmmm.

Fred, thanks for the volunteering.

I did leave with a crush on the trapeze teacher, who'd run away from grad school to join the circus.

I have a crush on anyone who runs away from grad school to join the circus.

Also? I want to learn trapeze. As long as there's a net.

I would vote for Minneapolis with Kansas City as my second choice of the cities suggested so far. What are some of the other choices?

I love NOLA, but not the heat, and I suspect it would be more expensive than either of the other cities.

It must have been Sandpiper because it is the only Florida Club Med. I was there last October. Maybe they had some serious policy changes. Of course they had golf, but I didn't see the course. The overwhelming majority of guests were European. It was particulary fun for me to watch my 11 yo son playing pool volley ball with a group of Italians. The women were all in string bikini's and hugging the embarrased boy like crazy. They were delighted to have the child join their team because of his height advantage.

I sat soaking up the sun and drinking vodka tonics, because free booze. Also, on mini-vacation. Trapeze guys were seriously drool worthy. Also, funny and snarky with the adults and endlessly patient with the children. edit to note that the only way off the trapeze was to fall into the net unless you knew what you were doing. Basically they taught you a couple moves and dropping to the net back first.

On topic. I have been to NOLA a couple times, but not any of the other mentioned cities. Nashville, Kansas City, Minneapolis. I'd love to visit any of them. I can't really pimp any of them because they are all far away and foreign locations to me.

I'd like to remind people of Cleveland. Hellmouth, people. Hellmouth.

Thanks, P-C. I'd actually like Cleveland too. Deena did a nice post about the place a while back.

Oooooh...

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(It's a Kansas City tourism page with $64 for a two night stay. They got whole other kinds of numbers out there in the flat lands.)

I'd actually like Cleveland too. Deena did a nice post about the place a while back.

Nillied for your consumption.

(It's a Kansas City tourism page with $64 for a two night stay. They got whole other kinds of numbers out there in the flat lands.)

Oooh. Cheapness. Intriguing.

Are we going to do a FredPete counting of the top 3-4 sites, then send out RFPs? What about a Mr. Poll "Pick your top 4 of the following cities" linked in Press?

Insert pointless rambling about various cities here. Pretty much all the ones suggested sound good. Have special place in heart for Buffistas in NOLA, but understand that the climate is a challenge.