The New Hobbit Hole

[2Jedismom]

No it wouldn't! It's just like a bunch of little cities all stuck together. I went when I was 15 with my drama class. I got separated from them in a mall and managed to find my way back to the hotel with no problems at all!

I'd like to see Ground Zero.

[2Jedismom]

Check this out!

http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=688357

[2Jedismom]

[Sam Cree]

" I am a country girl and a city that big would wig me out! "

I grew up in the country too, it's taken me all my life to get to like big cities, but I actually like Manhatten now (for brief periods). + I can stay with my crazy sister in law there, which my wife would like.

Manhatten has great food and art museums + it's usually cheap to fly to.

[HairOfTheDog]

OK if that is what everyone else ends up wanting to do... but it makes me cringe thinking about it! - I would be afraid of not even finding my way out of JFK.

[HairOfTheDog]

That does look cool... did you get the FoTR one? - Is it good?

[Corin Stormhands]

There're spiders under there....

You know it's sad, don't you, that both of us know what we're talkin' about here...wonder how Aunt Bea and Clara are doing with the elven cloaks...

[HairOfTheDog]

Isn't anyone else interested in DC?

I would love to go see DC! But I would want to have a week. I have heard you can spend several days just in the Smithsonian. Would love to go see the monuments, and the White House.

[2Jedismom]

I went to DC for the inauguration...it's pretty expensive. But it's worth it and a week would be best. The Smithsonian is great.

I'll go there if it's the will of the council.

Should I write Tahanu and ask if TORN has any thoughts on a party in 2003?

[Corin Stormhands]

Except it's going to be winter...hmmmm...

I don't do snow. I do have some "off-season" loding options available to me in Virginia. (I may still have them by 04).

Of course, DC would be perfect for me! If I still have to pay for two tickets for my non-standard sized backside, I'm not flying. (although we hope we'll be down to size by then)

[Sam Cree]

I'm OK with DC also. Or Florida, which means I could drive:-) But I suppose everyone will weigh in on location preferences.

It strikes me as fun if all us (insert a fitting description of what we are) get to meet each other.

[HairOfTheDog]

Sure, ask! - is Tahanu the one that took you seriously about the gash... or the one that blew you off?

[Sam Cree]

Get to meet each other in RL, I mean.

[Overtaxed]

Not to mention that IS cutting it pretty close to Christmas.

If we do it at Christmas, I'll never get my holiday baking done.

[Corin Stormhands]

I am up for the Dec 17/18 premier midnight show! - Really! - I thought others decided it would be too hard to do right near Christmas.

December might be tricky for me. But looking at the 03 calendar, that week/weekend should be okay.

[Corin Stormhands]

The dwarves might take issue with that.

Thank you. g'nad and I aren't interested in providing security for any old "hobbitmoot."

[Overtaxed]

It would be a trip (in more ways than one) if they had it in NYC, huh? I'd love that!

NYC? Well that lets me out. I'm not going anywhere near NYC!

[2Jedismom]

Yes, that's the one that took me seriously...and I feel so much better now, seeing that bloody cotton-pickin' eyebrow on Merry in that Two Towers preview on DVD! Humph!

I'll write him/her right now and explain what we're trying to do.

[2Jedismom]

Come on, OT! It's just a bit of fun!

[Corin Stormhands]

Manhatten has great food and art museums + it's usually cheap to fly to.

Or drive to. ;-)

NYC would work for me. I'd have to bring the family along, but that's okay. Corin, Jr. was there this summer on choir tour and would love to go back...