Well all, I think that this is a great idea....<P>Why do you all not come to Canada where the US dollar is cheap. ...so Niagara Falls Ontario or Windsor are good border towns and of course for bigger city life come to Toronto.<P>Just give dates and lets get this going

Wilbok,<P>I'd be willing to go! U might need to retitle this though. I thought you were going away for the weekend and just letting us know! Well I'm going away for the weekend, just to let you know! LOL<P>I'll check back on this Monday<BR>Dana<BR>

I'll go<P>the one point I've thought about is <BR>the accents. You can't read that in <BR>the posts.<P>thl

Can count me in for sure! Be nice to have a place that can allow people to drive to, as well as be accessible via airplane to! I would choose to fly.<P>By the Way THL, I am just a midwesterner, no accent here...LOL...just deep and plain! <P>Would love to see this happen and enjoy meeting all of you!<P>Drew

I linked this post to a couple other threads, so hopefully it will create some more interest!<P>I could probably go wherever, but the idea of midwest is good to, hard to say what is right until we get some good ideas on the table about this!<P>I DO hope it works out to plan something!<P>Drew

I'm game!!! <P>I'll have to check out a map and see how far away it is from me! LOL LOL <P>Mitzi

Ok Gang,<P>Count me in! <P>I will make what ever arangements that need to be made!.........LOL<P>Let get a time frame going......tho's of us that will fly need to get it booked,it is a lot cheeper fare when you booked it farther in advance!<P>Anybody have any idea of a month that works?<P>I am pretty open I just have to ask for the days off and I'm there!<P>Gina <P><P>------------------<BR>"If we deny love that is given to us,if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss,then our lives will be empty,our loss greater!"-----Anonymous----

Hi friends,<P>I have a bad feeling about December for me as last xmas was SUCH a nightmare. Plus it will be hard as a single mom with 3 kids saving for the best xmas I can give them after last xmas they lost daddy.<P>I'll be watching to see what we can figure out.<P>I'm coming from NY by the way. I'm about 6 hours east of Mitzi and 3 hours from Canada.<P>

Ok Gang,<P>I will put my 2 cents in! <P>I do think that Nov or Dec would be pretty tough months for meting w/all the get togethers w/family and work parties.<P>Maybe Jan........have a New Year party bring in the New year right!!!.....LOL (I have no doubt w/the group that we would have it would be a blast!) <P>Sept,Oct,although the end of Oct would be bad but any other time..............Feb,March,April.......and so on!!<P>Why not have everybody put in the months not good.......and then we can go from there!!<P>Just my thoughts..........LOL.....<P>Gina <P><P>------------------<BR>"If we deny love that is given to us,if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss,then our lives will be empty,our loss greater!"-----Anonymous----

Hey, I have the world's tightest budget and can't really afford to go anywhere. I personally, asd selfishly vote for Nashville, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Atlanta, someplace like that. But I imagine most of us are in the same boat. Oh, well.<p>[This message has been edited by cinderella (edited August 14, 2000).]

Thank you all for replying.....an excellent idea to give months which are good vs bad.<P>Where is also important.<P>I think Feb, March or April would be good to beat the winter blahs if nothing else.<BR>New Year is out as I will be with my children

I would think that summer months are better since alot of us are now single parents and it would be tuff to do during the school year. Possibly our x's could take the kids so we could do this(oh, I must have hit my head to think that would happen!)

well,<P>if you all wouldn't mind my going, I would like to go. As a longtime lurker, more recent poster, I'm aware I know you all better than you know me.<P>I would suggest one of the resort type places off season? Where they drop the fares drastically to fill up planes? Seems like places like Orlando always have cheap fares, but everytime I try to book a flight to Minneapolis, I'm charged an arm and a leg. Or at least a major airline hub city...

Okey Dokey....<P>I myself would prefer summer or spring OR fall, and I agree with honey.west. Here is my idea, and YES I know it is in the midwest, but how about a trip to the Rockies in Colorado...rent out a couple condo's with 3-4 bedrooms big floor space and that way the cost is down for us all, there is a MAJOR airport in Denver for those that want to fly in.<P>I don't know maybe we're making this to hard! maybe someone should just say "I am planning this weekend as MB weekend, In tin-buck-two, USA and those of you that can make it this date let me know so we can book rooms!<P>I wish I could take a more active planning role, but I am thinking of a life change and move and so concentrating on that right now is enough, but I WOULD LOVE TO show up and add a little fun to the life of the weekend <P>Count me in wherever, but lets try if we can to plan something near a decent airport so that those of us that can fly, can get a decent fare <P>There is more of Drew's 2-cents worth now...LOL<P>PS...honey.west...heck as far as I am concerned anyone can come...the more the merrier I say, will be nice to meet LOTS of people, those I know and those I don't quite know yet! <p>[This message has been edited by Blue Drew (edited August 15, 2000).]

Christmas time would stink. Money between now and then will be a fictional item. <P>I'll work to make plans. Is there anyone amongst us who's ever planned a meeting? I will need guidance. Trust me, I promise not to put together packets. I can hand out nametags though. <P>We'd need hotels, what kind of rates would be acceptable? We could try in town. We could try the suburbs. Hotels might run shuttle to/from airport. Or we could try something like a group lodge at state park. Or cabins. Would have to have rental van. I don't volunteer to drive that.<P>I still nominate Nashville because there is some stuff do do here. I'm a native so I don't recognize all of it. Do you want art, performing arts, country music (we have the Wildhorse Saloon which has allegedly appeared numerous times on tv), we also have countryside not too far away.<P>We have airport which used to run some int'l flights directly. We also have 3 interstate highways leading into downtown. 40, 24, and 65. They say that Nashville is within a one day drive of half of the US population. 1/2 million people or so here. January, February, and early March are the only months when we can usually expect any snow.<BR>This past winter, though, we had virtually no snow.