At 03:50 PM 8/26/2002, Carl D Cravens wrote:
>On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Michael J. Feldhusen wrote:
>
> > Suggestions as to when it would work? Early Saturday is about all I can
> > see.
>I suppose that some of this depends on whether anybody else wants to go...
>Karen and I are going to be pretty much the only attendees who don't live
>in the area. The Armory isn't high on Karen's list, so she could take or
>leave it.
While not of the quality of the Royal Armory in Leeds England (very few
places are, though, and probably none of them are in this hemisphere), the
Higgins is a nice place. Regrettably, the mail exhibition will have ended
by then. (Which means that Allison and I have to get over there and see it
before it does.)
>So I'm thinking a schedule something like this:
>
>Friday: Karen and I arrive at noon, we grab lunch and hit the fur factory.
>(Karen recently noted: if anybody else wants to go to this, we need to
>clear it with the factory owner... he's expecting just four people. So
>let us know.) We would look for other visitors to arrive late afternoon
>or evening. Do we want to try roleplaying on Friday night, or should we
>look for discussion over dinner, perhaps followed up by board games?
I suppose that will depend on how many will be attending. Could anyone who
is at least *considering* attending please post (or if you don't want to
post publicly, please email Carl *and* myself) that information as well
when you think you might be there? If you have actual preferences of what
you'd like to do when, please let us know. It would help greatly in the
planning.
>Saturday: Higgins Armory at 10 sharp, followed by lunch. Back home for
>gaming and the like, dinner, more gaming?
Sounds good. Please note that Allison and have an "other commitment" for
that evening and so will be leaving the house in the care of Carl and Karen.
>Sunday: King Richard's Faire at 10:30 or so (that's when the gates open).
>Lunch at the Faire, probably head home around 2 or 3? More gaming and
>dinner.
That sounds like a good plan. Please note, getting to/from KRF from our
places does take a considerable amount of time. I will post an estimate of
how much time that will take once I speak with Allison on this.
>Monday: Breakfast and our plane leaves at noonish.
That will not actually leave time for much besides socializing over the
breakfast table, what with the necessary check-in lead times and traffic
allowances.
>We need to set afternoon times that we'll be "home" to meet people
>arriving to game on the various days. Mike, I'm hoping you can help firm
>up some times here, since I expect you have a better idea of how long it
>takes to get from place to place, how long we might stay at the Armory and
>the Faire, and what else we might want to be doing.
The Armory can be done in about 2 hours, and the travel time is not
significant (about half an hour, IIRC). As with the KRF travel time, I
will double check with Allison (she has a much better feel from how these
things take, my time sense when travelling is not at all reliable). I
believe your estimate of how long we'll stay at KRF is pretty good, as
that's about when we usually leave.
>I'm figuring that at least one evening we'll call out for pizza, that
>being a gaming tradition. If we can use your kitchen, Karen and I might
>cook if we've got the time and feel up to it.
There is a very good pizza place right across the street (highway) from our
house, and they deliver.
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Michael Feldhusen mike_f@io.com
http://www.io.com/~mike_f/
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