New England Memorial Day Meetup 2011 - Roll Call

[Cramulus]

from the Trip's USA Trip thread...

I just checked - The Stage Coach Inn is still available for Memorial Day Weekend.

If we're interested, this would be the breakdown...

$350 per night

gets us 5 bedrooms / 2 bathrooms.


If we end up having 10 people (off the top of my head ... me, eve, suu, richter, trip, torte, squid, mr. squid, rat, sjaante) --- that's only $35 per night apiece. If we end up spilling over, there's probably enough crash space in the living room that we could fit some more people in.

and look at this sweet grill space:



BAD ASS



---PLEASE NOTE: this doesn't exclude hanging out in providence too!

I'll be happy to reserve the house. What I need is a list of who's definitely in for this idea. Optimally we want 10 people. More people are totally welcome if they want to come, we just can't guarantee you a bed. If for some reason we end up with dozens of people who want to get in, I'm betting we can get a discount at the main Inn because we'll be bringing a big group.

If we end up with fewer than 10 people, we can just rent the lower floor (2 bedrooms) for $150 a night, or the upper floor (3 bedrooms) for $250 a night.


So far, the following people have said HELL YEAH

Me
Squid
Mr. Squid
Richter
Schwarzwälderkirschtorte
Triple Zero
Added: Cainad
Added: Luna
Added: Cuttleface
Added: Suu
Added: Ratatosk
Added: Sjaante


I've gotten a Maybe from the following people:
Eve
Suu's Sister & Brother

Who else would like to get in on this bad ass room rental?

AND

should we rent it out for 1 or 2 nights?



The Memorial Day meet up will include lounging around, grilling, beers, possibly exploring spooky places in New England, and Suu would like to take us on a guided tour of butt town I mean providence. Even if you don't want to stay at the inn, I'd love to have a big PD meet up at a place we've rented in the middle of nowhere. After this snowy snowy winter, I want nothing more than to kick out the jams with you spaglords in the springtime.






edit: updated RSVP list

[Cuddlefish]

I have a little money put aside for an emergency like this. I can swing 35 bucks.

[AFK]

I'm sure I wasn't on the short list, but just to confirm that I won't be able to swing it.  Money of course not the issue.  The issues being family stuff planned for that weekend and also that it is in Connecticut. 

[Suu]

I can't guarantee anything until I'm registered for summer classes and get a general idea of what my financial aid is going to look like for the summer. I'll also just be coming back from the Steampunk World's Fair the weekend before. I'm on staff, so everything is pretty much free but the fucking drive to and from New Jersey, which in it's self, could be a horrific ordeal. (FFS THIS TIME TAPPAN ZEE OR GTFO.)

I'm not really a yes or no or maybe as much as I am a "I HAVE NO FUCKING IDEA".

[Eater of Clowns]

Any other Sunday Monday I'd be able to get off, but nobody will be picking up my shift on Memorial Day.  So clue me in to whatever spaggings go on in the area, maybe I can join in for those.

And you misspelled meatup.

[East Coast Hustle]

Let me know when you guys have one of these thingies somewhere that isn't CT.

[Suu]

Let me know when you guys have one of these thingies somewhere that isn't CT.

I'm not fond of that state either, but if we don't give it SOME attention every now and then, the tax rates start to seep across the border and they try taking chunks out of RI again.

Plus, people from that state are inherently rich, fat, and miserable because they're not cool enough to live in Manhattan even though they have the money for it and work there anyway. How Cram, Eve, D-Cup, Cainad, and the Mangrove clan appeared to have turned out unscathed the world will never know.

[AFK]

I don't know about the others, but Mang isn't a native Connecticunter, so I guess that helps.   

[Luna]

Lived in CT long enough to really, REALLY appreciate NOT living there any more.

I do miss the comic book store, though.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Since my family moved to CT, I've technically spent more time living on Giant Turd Island than in CT.

[Suu]

Since my family moved to CT, I've technically spent more time living on Giant Turd Island than in CT.

FUCK YEAH LONGEYELAND.

[Eve]

I was born in New Hampshire! NH + CT is a winning combination, let me tell you.

I'm also in the "no fucking clue" category. It's too early for me to request the weekend off, but I'll do my best.

[Cramulus]

I can respect that people are uncertain about whether or not they can swing it. The constraint here is that we need to get definite yesses in order to reserve the inn. I really don't want to get stuck paying for the whole thing if it turns out people can't make it.

If we don't have three definite Yesses (I'm counting Dimo in the total yes pile now) by the end of next week, we'll probably just rent out one floor.  I'd really like to get both though, so we can have our own private space to be total spagwads with nobody watching.



also, do you guys have thoughts on doing this for one day vs two days? I'd be leaning towards two days - that way we can get in a lot of spooky CT exploration and then crash out together that evening.

[Suu]

I couldn't do 2 nights. Not with work and school. You all do not need to see Suu doing homework. No no NO. There have been anthropological studies done on the techniques of my book throwing.

[Richter]

I can respect that people are uncertain about whether or not they can swing it. The constraint here is that we need to get definite yesses in order to reserve the inn. I really don't want to get stuck paying for the whole thing if it turns out people can't make it.

If we don't have three definite Yesses (I'm counting Dimo in the total yes pile now) by the end of next week, we'll probably just rent out one floor.  I'd really like to get both though, so we can have our own private space to be total spagwads with nobody watching.



also, do you guys have thoughts on doing this for one day vs two days? I'd be leaning towards two days - that way we can get in a lot of spooky CT exploration and then crash out together that evening.

I'm in as deinite YES for the two days.  I know a folks from the area too, so if spags bail on us, I'm confident we can still summon epic shennanigans.