Hi everyone! I wanted to post an update to let everyone know what's currently happening with the meet-up (and to give you some HOPE that it WILL happen
). Marci is just too busy right now to spend the time required on setting all this up (she is swamped with classes and a million other things
), so she asked me last week if I could take over the hotel planning. I was already on the planning committee (just had a different task at hand), and I lived in KC for 23 years before moving to CA, so I'm very familiar with the area. Anyway, I know you are all anxious to get something set in stone so you can make your plans (as am I since I'm a planner and need to buy my airline tickets, just like the rest of you
), so I am working diligently on finding a hotel for us and working out the details. I know a lot of you need to put in for vacation time at work very early, so I hope to have the details to you very soon. I spent all day this past Friday contacting hotels in the KC Plaza area, and I'm VERY pleased
to say things are looking VERY
good. A lot of hotels don't want us because it involves just "too many" dogs (really...can you ever have
too many Yorkies in one place?!?!), and they only have a "few" pet-friendly rooms set aside, BUT...I am in the process of working out the details with one hotel (and waiting to hear back from one other possibility), and as soon as I do, I'll be letting the committee know what I've worked out, and I should be ready to post a new thread so you can take the info and run with it!
What is probably going to happen is - I will set up our rooms under a "group code", and you will each be responsible for calling the hotel, giving them the "group code", and supplying them with your credit card number to reserve your room. Then, because we will owe money for Saturday night's dinner up-front, we will probably have to charge a "registration fee", which will include your ticket to dinner and some other goodies. Again, I have to work out final details and present everything to the planning committee before I post anything "official", but I want to keep you in the loop and let you know I AM working on it! So...stay with us...and we'll have this thing planned soon...PROMISE
! Sukoshi and I can't wait to meet y'all in person!