We've reached our maximum room capacity for this event! It's a fire code thing, i can't negotiate it. :( I'll keep a waitlist for anyone who really wants to be on it in case of cancellations, but i can't guarantee anything of course.
You're Invited!
What: An all-state extravaganza!
Who: All Oregon wrimos
Where: Oregon Coast Aquarium, 2820 SE Ferry Slip Rd Newport, OR
When: Sunday November 22nd, 10am to 5pm
Welcome to the third annual Oregon All State Write-in! Newport, Oregon is honored to host this year's madness. :) We've got an awesome location this year - the Oregon Coast Aquarium! Which means that if you slack off on your word count we'll throw you to the sharks! (Not really. But i do wield a mean Sea Cucumber...) We'll be located in the Gleason Event Room at the end of "Passages of the Deep", and are planning on having a whole host of fun things to do, including word wars, inner editor inprisonment activites, and wandering around the Aquarium or the nearby Hatfield Marine Science Center (with or without me as your chatty naturalist guide. ^_^ )
For food there is a resturant on site, called Local Oceans. They have excelent seafood that's been caught right here off our coast. You can see their menu here You can also get a hand stamp (for re-entry to the Aquarium) and head out to the town (i'm happy to reccomend/take people to resturants).
Please RSVP as soon as you know you can come - an accurate head count is really important to us this year. For more info or to RSVP e-mail MLbrightshadowsky(at)gmail(dot)com. Also, if you are coming from farther afield and need to stay over in order to make it work please let me know. For those who would like to stay in a hotel i can reccomend cheap yet nice ones; i also have info on a very nice B&B. If money is an issue we may still be able to work things out - please contact me!
IMPORTANT: We are not being given complimentary admission to the aquarium (because they waived the room fee, hurrah!) so an accurate head count is VITAL, as we are attempting to find enough comp tickets and aquarium membership holders to get all Wrimos in free. Please, if you are coming, RSVP EARLY! If you have a few bucks we are going to take up a collection to help cover any extraneous admission fees if not enough comp tickets can be obtained. If all or part of this money is not needed (and i hope it's not) any left over will go directly to Nano as a donation. Can you donate to the admission fund? Let your local ML know and i'll be in touch with them.
Guests are welcome to come but limitations will have to be imposed in two areas:
1: Only Wrimos will be given comp tickets or a member's pass. Guests will need to purchase their own entry into the aquarium. Admission prices and other info can be found at the Aquarium website. (www.aquarium.org)
2: The maximum occupancy for our meeting room is 60. I'd be over the moon if we had that many people attend, but should this number be reached Wrimos will have precedence and guests will be asked to entertain themselves for a while.
Here's to a great 2009 noveling season! Woot!
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Oct 3, 2009 - 18 49
1st to comment!
----------This sounds really fun =). I'll definitely be considering it!
TTFN
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Oct 4, 2009 - 17 17
Your MLs, Darfinkle and Twilite, have already sent an RSVP to Brighterskyte, ML for Lincoln County, for six to eight participants from our region. We will be forming carpools closer to the event date. Our own vehicles will carry three passengers each. We plan to be there for the entire time, as I will be conducting a short workshop sometime during the day.
Please RSVP for this event by posting in this thread if you have any desire to attend. We will talk and exchange contact information at our write-ins and by private nanomail. Please do not post any personal contact information in the thread.
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Oct 4, 2009 - 18 59
Brighterskyte is actually the ML of Salem, i believe. i'm brightshadowsky. :) We're terribly confusing.
If folks want to RSVP individually they're more than welcome to, encouraged even. :) I'm adding all the e-mails of participants to the google calendar, and they'll get a reminder a few days before the event. It also lets me mail attendees en masse to inform folks about any new info or changes.
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Oct 8, 2009 - 12 53
I'd like to do this.
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Oct 8, 2009 - 18 02
This looks really, really fun. I don't have a car, though. Would it be possible to find a ride to and from the event? I can spring for gas money!!!
John
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Oct 11, 2009 - 15 42
awesomesauce! Shoot me an e-mail and i'll send you the Google Calendar invite mlbrightshadowsky( at)gmail(dot )com
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Oct 11, 2009 - 23 42
John
Yes, of course you may have a ride to this awesome NaNo event. We plan to have at least two carpools going Newport for the day.
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Oct 11, 2009 - 23 57
I'd really like to come to this :D
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Oct 12, 2009 - 00 39
Awesome! Shoot me your e-mail and i'll send you the google calendar invite. :)
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Oct 16, 2009 - 20 52
Co-ML here. Yes, I will be there too. And we will be forming carpools.
Though that does not mean you have to carpool.
Hope to see you all at the write-ins.
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Nov 18, 2009 - 19 31
Did my post count as an RSVP? I have a bad feeling it didn't...
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~Aquene