October Trip Help!!!

[Guest guest]

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> > On Saturday right. Do we have a head count????

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> So far, I think there are 10 of us? (Elena, , ,

> , Susi, Amybeth, AmyN, , Kat and .....am I

forgetting

> anyone?)

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Okay - here's my sort of problem (it may not really be one). My

husband and I have decided that he's not going to go (mostly his

choice, and also for financial reasons). It would just be too

expensive to take 3-4 days to go to L.A. for both of us, and we'd

both have to use vacation time, so he's decided that I can just go on

my own if I want.

SO my dilemma is - sure, I guess I don't mind flying by myself (no

biggy there, but kinda scary, never done that before!) BUT I really

wouldn't want to have to stay in a hotel room by myself, nor am I

sure that paying for the whole room myself would be affordable

either! So have people already paired up to share rooms? Would

anyone want to share a room? As long as I have at least half a bed

to use, (LOL!) i'd really like to split a room with someone. And also

are people renting cars, or one or 2 cars and we all might share the

cost in that too? I'm not sure how this all works! I really doubt I

would need a car for just me!

Also I'm thinking I would leave thursday after work and get in around

11:30 or so L.A. time and then stay until Sunday and leave sunday

around 11 am or so. I really would like to stay longer but I have

something coming up that I will be needing the other precious days of

vacation for! So are people still planning on doing a lot of things

maybe friday and saturday too? This is all scary to me, I've never

gone this far away from home all by myself... I've always went with

family or my husband... so I'm just a bit nervous about leaving him,

I'm afraid I'll feel weird, esp. since it is our wedding anniversary

weekend! Hub has decided we can celebrate early... LOL!

So can you all give me advice? I want to get my ticket booked soon

while the prices are still affordable...

THANKS!!

Amy

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/26/00 5:36:54 PM Pacific Daylight Time, slowens@...

writes:

<< You said you'd get in

around 11:30pm on Thursday night right? If there's any way you could

try to get in a little bit earlier, that would be great (just cause

I'll probably be hitting the hay kind of early in anticipation of

Friday's classes), but if you can't.....I will definitely come get

you at the airport on Thursday evening. >>

There are also shuttles that can bring you to the hotel. They are pretty

cheap.

One is called Super Shuttle. For the life of me, I can not think of any

others, but there are many.

~Kat, who will be asleep at that time-sorry

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/26/00 6:40:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, slowens@...

writes:

<< Hey, that's cool! I was going to ask you about that....I wasn't sure

how far we were from the airport. If it's not too expensive, that

might be an option

>>

Well, in LA terms, not incredibly far. BUT in normal terms, pretty far.

If there's no major traffic, leaving LAX and getting to the hotel would take

about 30 minutes. BUT that means there's no traffic (the times you guys are

arriving sound good, though).

Those shuttles, depending on who's on them, may make stops along the

way-which would make the whole thing longer.

I would pick people up, but I'll be at either my job or my internship. So

I'm not much help.

~Kat, who is drinking a yummy smoothy

[Guest guest]

> BUT I really

> wouldn't want to have to stay in a hotel room by myself, nor am I

> sure that paying for the whole room myself would be affordable

> either! So have people already paired up to share rooms? Would

> anyone want to share a room?

Amy,

You can definitely stay with us! We've got 2 rooms booked and

Amybeth will be with her husband at a different hotel. So, that

leaves Elena, , , Susi, me and you to share the rooms.

We can figure out who rooms with who later! Also, Susi and I are

renting cars so we can work that out too! You said you'd get in

around 11:30pm on Thursday night right? If there's any way you could

try to get in a little bit earlier, that would be great (just cause

I'll probably be hitting the hay kind of early in anticipation of

Friday's classes), but if you can't.....I will definitely come get

you at the airport on Thursday evening. I think is getting in

Thursday evening around 7pm, but that would probably mean you taking

off all day from work on Thursday and you're probably trying to avoid

that! So, whatever works for you.....we'll come get you! Also, I

can take you back to the airport on Sunday morning! I'll just try to

go to an early class on Sunday so we can get you there in plenty of

time!

I know it's scary going by yourself, but I promise you will not

regret it! When we went to the tapings in February.....me, Elena,

and shared a room and we had never met before! It was

one of the best times I've ever had and I made some incredible

friends. You have already met Elena, and me....so you don't

have to stress too much about that and I promise you and Susi

are awesome, too! Anyway, you book your flights for whenever it's

convenient for you and just let us know and we'll make sure we get

you We've already got the rooms and the cars booked.....so you

just worry about getting your flight

[Guest guest]

>

> There are also shuttles that can bring you to the hotel. They are

pretty

> cheap.

Hey, that's cool! I was going to ask you about that....I wasn't sure

how far we were from the airport. If it's not too expensive, that

might be an option

[Guest guest]

..> Well, in LA terms, not incredibly far. BUT in normal terms,

pretty far.

>

> If there's no major traffic, leaving LAX and getting to the hotel

would take

> about 30 minutes. BUT that means there's no traffic (the times you

guys are

> arriving sound good, though).

>

> Those shuttles, depending on who's on them, may make stops along

the

> way-which would make the whole thing longer.

>

> I would pick people up, but I'll be at either my job or my

internship. So

> I'm not much help.

>

> ~Kat, who is drinking a yummy smoothy

Agreeing with Kat

Never lived there but have gone enough to know that you really don't

want to Cab it or Shuttle it.....I will be getting a Rental car for

the trip and plan to go for Five Days leaving Thursday and Returning

Monday late so would be more then happy to cart folks around.....need

those extra eyes in the car trust me and pick-up and take to

airport

amybeth-who is just sooo thrilled to be going and having folks to

go...I went alone to the Feb. Tapings for a week and was miserable

because I was alone

[Guest guest]

Amybeth,

I wish we had known you were there alone! >8( We would've hooked up

with you in a heartbeat!

F

>

> amybeth-who is just sooo thrilled to be going and having folks to

> go...I went alone to the Feb. Tapings for a week and was miserable

> because I was alone

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 7/27/00 3:01:46 AM Pacific Daylight Time,

amybethluvstaebo@... writes:

<< Never lived there but have gone enough to know that you really don't

want to Cab it or Shuttle it..... >>

Yes, you do not want to take a taxi cab ANYWHERE in LA, unless you know for a

fact that it is really close. This city is HUGE. It is impossible to

picture or really understand unless you have driven around it. It's amazing

when you come in to LA on a plane at night. The lights start way before you

ever get to the airport. The first time I saw it, my SO and I thought we

were flying over Las Vegas or some other city. The lights probably last 15

minutes while you're in the plane. We were shocked when we realized it was

LA.

~Kat, who is not a city person and can do without all of the crazy traffic