Lyra, if you want me to bring a corset for fun, I probably have a few that would fit your size. And really, my costume is only different from what I'd wear every day because of the corset. The skirt, I'd wear anywhere.

I just dress like that, when I'm not in jeans. I wear leather to the supermarket.

Lyra, I won't be dressed up, because, as I occasionally angst about in Bitches, my current clothing budget is slim-to-nonexistent, and anything I buy has to be very, very, very practical.

Hey kids. It sounds like I'm going to miss a lot of fun in Seattle.

I'm here to ask where we are on the New Orleans info though. It's been very quiet and I really really really want to get these last decisions made about which hotel so that we can get the contracts pulled up and signed and lock in some good rates.

San Diego (Nov 29-Dec 3)

There is a whole guest room (okay the computer lives there too, but think of it as "also including broadband access"...) with your name on it...

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t gets down tonight

It has been offered billytea.

Huzzah! That just leaves Seattle, and possibly the drive from San Fran to L.A. (Though I can do that on my own.)

Billytea, I have some thoughts about the drive from SF to LA. Once I am awake enough to collect them and make sure they are coherent, I will email you about it.

That may not be for a while though. LIke maybe my lunch time.

Billytea, I have some thoughts about the drive from SF to LA.

Me too! Many of them involve the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Oooh, let me know when this might happen, I'd love to crash!

-t's Top Five Hotels in New Orleans:

1. Sleep Inn & Suitesin Metairie
Advantage: cheap $69.99/night for a double
Disadvantage: in Metairie, less convenient for spontaneous tourism, no response yet to my queries regarding Prom Space and transportation

2. Radisson on Canal
Double $99/night, Quad $119/night, Audubon A for Hospitality Suite at $200 for the entire stay, adding Audubon B&C for Prom Space for an additional $300
Parking is $28/night, streetcar line stops outside hotel
Rooftop pool

3. New Orleans Fine Hotels various locations $109/night
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4. The Saint Louis Hotel in the French Quarter
Double $109/night
Hospitality suite $220/night, 24 hour access
Prom Space price contingent on catering – I have menus we can choose from, or we can give them a budget and they will arrange food for us

5. Hotel Monaco
Double $159/night
Swanky.
Companion goldfish on request.
Free High Speed Internet.
Egyptian Ballroom recommended for Prom.
Nightly Wine tastings with chair massages.

Oooh, let me know when this might happen, I'd love to crash!

Well, I plan (work and removalists permitting) to drive from SF to LA over Nov 26-7. I'd expect to check out the aquarium on the 26th.