Orlando!

[hellziggy]

I just booked a two bedroom resort in Orlando for Friday, January 27th through Monday, January 30th.
Up to 6 people can stay there.

So, which four of you want to come with?

You would have to buy your own airfare.
The room would be about $50-75 per person for the whole weekend.
There will be a full kitchen and the resort has a ton of other ammenities.

Rick & I will be taking the room with the king size bed. The other bedroom has two double beds and there is a queen size foldout sofa.

Why should you go to Orlando that weekend?

1. It's January. This means it is cold in Minnesota. Florida is not cold.

2. Your pick of theme parks...Walt Disney World, Epcot, Universal Orlando, SeaWorld, Orlando, Busch Gardens Tampa

3. It's January. Florida is not cold.

4. There's a convention that weekend: FX 2006
The guests include Summer Glau and Alan Tudyk. Also Hurley from Lost, George A. Romero, some horror movie actors, some Happy Days and Three's Company stars, some comic creators, and even some porn stars.

5. It's january. Florida is not cold.

6. I have never ever in my entire life seen the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.


chebutykin, you & cajones could write off the expenses on your taxes. You could get free tables in the convention's Creator Alley. You could meet George A. Romero. You liked Orlando when you went before.

mhuot & dragonsden, you could meet two shiny Firefly/Serenity stars and add their autographs to the Ron Glass one you already have. And some_day_soling and jaconn are only 140 miles away.

some_day_soling and jaconn, if you could talk dragonsden & mhuot into going with us, you could drive to Orlando for the weekend to see them and just pay hotel, not airfare.

scubagrrl, instead of coming to Minnesota this month, you could forget your family and just come see me & hellbob. It's warmer in Florida.

I could keep finding reasons that each of you need to go...

I found plane tickets for $217 last night so hotel + air would be less than $300 per person. Oh yeah, did I mention that it is January and Florida is warm?


BTW, if we can't get someone to help w/sharing the costs I have until the 17th to cancel the room...

Comments

[genevra.livejournal.com]

Hmm... It would cost us $1000 to struggle with 2 toddlers there and back. Bah!

[jmanna.livejournal.com]

If I had just a little bit more wartning I could have saved for it. Ah well. Maybe next year? I could hinge it with a trip to see my daddy. :D

[lexiphanic.livejournal.com]

If you can find a way to convince my profs that attanedance is a piss-poor way to grade people, and lend me $300, I'll go.

[some-day-soling.livejournal.com]

Come on. We would stop down there for a visit. Attendance...who needs to graduate anyway. ;)

We miss you.

[lexiphanic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if it weren't this close to Christmas, I'd be more likely to consider it. Really, I don't personally have any interest in meeting the Firefliers, as that falls into my "no celebrities I actually like" policy, so I'd probably just go straight to Jacksonville and skip Orlando.

[some-day-soling.livejournal.com]

All the more reason!

[lurker-dave.livejournal.com]

6. I have never ever in my entire life seen the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico.

aw...you poor thing. :)

I'm going to (briefly) be in Miami the week after that.

[genevra.livejournal.com]

But... If you wanna do this again in like 5 years? That would be *awesome* to take the kids to Disney!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

It's probably better that you're not sleeping anywhere near us anyway. That feet hanging over the edge thing you do just invites the under-the-bed monsters into the room. They need invitations. It's just like vampires, only not as hot!
*grin*
That'd be cool if we were both there and got to meet!

[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

Sorry, we have our sights set for London later this year. I gotta squander my travel cash and my flyer miles.

Besides, we're probably going to see George at Motor City.

Buuuuut... in completely different news... the MoneySnakes are going to be out of town for the Oscars, and asked us to host the Oscars at the Asylum. But then I thought... perhaps it would be better to merge Hellhouse and Chez MoneySnake Oscar traditions, and just have a big mother of a blowout? We're happy to host, of course, though we'd be equally happy to take over the better-equipped Hellhouse for said big mother blowout.

Besides, I miss watching the Oscars with you.

What do you think?

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Just so you know, I hate everyone who gets to travel overseas because I can't afford to and it will be years & years & years before I can, if ever! Rick & I can generally do our US vacations with airfare & hotel combined for both of us costing less than just one international ticket.

*pout*

I want to see everywhere! I want to go to England and hang out with dakegra & K & the Beans. I want to see Stonehenge and castles. I want to see Ireland and Paris and the Black Forest and Prague and Italy and the Alps. I want to see the Pyramids. I want to go on an African Safari with a huge monster camera lens. I want to go to Iceland. I want to see Japan. I want to go Down Under even if everything there is venomous, even the damn platypuses.
*sigh*
/end pout

I entered NAPP's international PhotoShop contest, but I have no illusions that I'm good enough to win the grand prize trip to Paris...

As for the Oscars... I don't know. I'd obviously have to check with Hellbob, but the three main things I can see being obstacles are that
1. It is MarsCon weekend, so I have to be on the ball enough to clean my house on Thursday.
2. While I have a ginormous tv, there actually isn't seating for a lot of people because since it's rear projection you can't sit too far too the side
3. The larger the group the better I have to clean my house which just leads back to #1. Especially if there will be people who have never been there or only been there for HellHouse BBQs because I'd like to maintain the illusion that Rick & I aren't packrats & slobs.

The obvious benefits to the HellHouse are:
1. Tivo. We record it and start late so we can fast-forward commercials and still end at the same time (every year we manage to catch up with the live feed at some point). Also we can pause for bathroom breaks and rewind if something is missed.

2. Ginormous TV. Size really does matter.

3. Wireless internet for instant IMDB access and online snark commentary.

4. I'm a lazy fuck who doesn't want to leave my house.

This will require some pondering.