SkennCon 2008 – High Adventure UPDATE

It’s Go-time, folks!

We leave Lansing at 7:43 am on Saturday, January 26th.

People are welcome to stay at Lucy’s place on Friday night.

We arrive in Chicago at 11:15 am. We’ll take our luggage to the hotel (will be arranged when we have solid numbers), and have lunch at Fogo De Chao, one of the absolute best restaurants ever. Will they give me special meat for my birthday?

Plans are open from there until early evening, where our current plans are to go watch Michelle bellydance (she performed at tawneypup‘s and plasmonic_grid‘s wedding), and then any multitude of: going to a dance club, a pub, a sushi-karaoke bar, or go to our rooms and play games all night. Maybe we’ll bring Karaoke Revolution and DDR, but Apples to Apples is a certainty.

Our next day is open at the moment – breakfast in town, leave our bags at the front desk, have much fun, and get on the 3pm train back home, arriving on Sunday, January 27th at 8:20 pm

(Alternatively, you can stop in battle creek and take the bus the rest of the way, which will save you $9 dollars and get you home either at 5 pm or 12:30 am, depending on when you leave. Seriously, I’ll give you nine dollars to avoid this.)

Outbound trip: $21
Inbound trip: Non-stop $38, BC stop $29
Fogo Lunch (optional): $35 (an incredible salad buffet and meat-stravaganza)
Hotel: We’ll “hamster it up” – Lucy plans on covering a lot of the cost, but any chipping in to defray will be good.

You bring: a sleeping bag or a good reason to get a bed, fun games, and your hot self.

This is your chance to get in before the price goes up. Lucy is being amazing and will pick up the tickets in the next few days if you comment here saying that you’re in, quantity of train tickets, and whether you want to be on the non-stop train with the cool kids or the early/late bus.

People who have said they’re in so far:

Your M.C. Skennedy
netmouse
flinx (sorry buddy, you were volunteered)
blue_lucy
silver_bits
filmmaker79		 childe
jadesfire55
tawneypup
plasmonic_grid
urban_exotic

Come join us!

~ by Skennedy on October 30, 2007.

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22 Responses to “SkennCon 2008 – High Adventure UPDATE”

  1. Count me in!

    All about it!

    I’m so excited – this is going to be a fabulous trip!

    silver_bits said this on October 30, 2007 at 11:57 pm

  2. Mm… hotel costs are taken care of, unless you really feel like chipping in, especially since the train ticket price increased a bit. So don’t worry about that!

    blue_lucy said this on October 31, 2007 at 12:00 am

  3. Sign me up, now that I’m back.

    I will be there on time, sipping some coffee, complaining about the hour. :)

    1 train ticket on the non-stop, pleeeeeze.

    childe said this on October 31, 2007 at 12:43 am

  4. I haven’t done random road-tripping with you in a while. I’m in. Non-stop train. And I’ll help chip in for the hotel. :)

    jadesfire55 said this on October 31, 2007 at 12:48 am

  5. If we go dancing, I’m in.

    SO MAKE A DECISION QUICK!! :)

    brendand said this on October 31, 2007 at 1:42 am

  6. Count me and the honey both in! I’ll get you moolah for the train tickets on Monday, and of course we’ll help pitch in for hotel.

    According to Michelle’s website HERE she dances at Sigara Hookah Lounge at 10:30pm on Saturdays. They’re located just West of the Division/Damen intersection at 2013 W. Division St. There’s a menu on their website.

    Who else is going to smoke a hookah with me?! I love hookahs!

    tawneypup said this on October 31, 2007 at 2:06 am

  7. No can do

    You have picked the weekend of the volunteer meeting, BOD meeting and last staff meeting for ConVo.

    Sorry babe….

    astaria66 said this on October 31, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    • Ouch.

      To be fair, I didn’t pick the day I was born, and every other weekend up to March is more expensive. *s*

      It’s a tight time of year, with ConFusion the week before.

      atdt1991 said this on October 31, 2007 at 1:33 pm

  8. I want to go, too!

    urban_exotic said this on October 31, 2007 at 8:55 pm

  9. I’m in. I’ll take a non-stop $9 more ticket. I don’t see you often, so how do you want to take care of the ticket payment?

    filmmaker79 said this on November 1, 2007 at 2:24 am

    • Super-sweet! I’ll talk to lucy about it, but you can always mail it to me or we can make a special trip to get together or something.

      *hugs*

      atdt1991 said this on November 1, 2007 at 3:09 am

  10. sadness! you picked a weekend that i’m almost positively booked (for the great midwest trivia contest!)

    otherwise, i would have asked about snagging a bus down to chicago for the weekend or something.

    alyska said this on November 1, 2007 at 6:29 pm

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