If us Houstonites are welcome you can pencil me in. Don't know about hotel though ... I may stay with friends ... but i don't know yet. When do I have to let you know about the hotel?

 

shoot, wein ain't got nothing on me, I've been here 27 years!

 

Sounds good. Let me know.

Houstonites are most definitely welcome. I'll call next week to reserve a few rooms, based on who's expressed interest so far. I'll need to know about 2 wks before for sure whether or not you'll be staying at the hotel.

 

after what Vince did to usc, the more houston folk we have here the better!

 

Dazy, my woman and I are a go. If you're at BJ's next Thursday, I'll get some more specifics from you then.

 

Awesome Creto!! I won't be at BJ's next week, but feel free to send me a PM until Sunday. I'll be out of commission from March 5-12, but I'll reply as soon as I get back.

 

Hey, Tiff.... do the guys that came up from Houston for the install party know about this get-together?!

 

i don't even know about it

 

Have we decided on a hotel? Last time we stayed at the Omni and it was within walking distance of 6th street (thank God), or I wouldn't have made it back to the hotel. Are we staying there again or is there another place in mind? I'm just hoping for something within walking distance or stumbling distance.

 

Stumbling distance is more like it... I want to be able to crawl there.

I'm sure we'll come up with something.

 

I called the Omni yesterday and I'm having some problems with their availability.

Canary - Any other hotel suggestions w/in a 2 block radius of 6th street?

 

The Omni is pretty much the closest save for the Driskill, there are a bunch along the river though, (Cesar Chavez Street to be more specific) but to walk to 6th street from those is quite a bit further than 2 blocks, there is also the Hilton on 4th street. Here is a Yahoo link:

http://travel.yahoo.com/p-hotel-9943...ONwddOyFwJ8b8F

The rest are going to be a bit futher away so that may be your next best bet?

 

Walking a few blocks when you're plastered isn't that bad. It's an adventure in remembering directions with short term memory loss! That in itself will be an entire entertaining event.

 

Or there is a Marriott on 11th. I don't know much about the area in Austin, but I've stayed at an ungodly amount of Marriotts. Here is a link to the hotel information:
http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/AUSDT

And here is a link to the map from the hotel to Coyote Ugly (just picked a bar to find distance)
http://www.mapquest.com/directions/m...%7cUS&1qc=Bars

 

And according to Travelocity.com the Omni has rooms available. If we get 3 rooms they are $109 per night.

769.14 after taxes for 3 rooms, 2 nights.

 

Alright, lemme look into these. LM gives a discount for Marriott. Thanks Slim.

 

I found that the Omni at Southpark has a rate of $109, but the downtown location doesn't even have any available.

I think I'm going to book with the Marriott at $179/night, which if we put 4 people per room, comes to $102.93 for the weekend...

Thoughts??

 

You're tellin' a fib! You already said you'd go.

 

sounds good to me tiff.

 

The first post has been updated with hotel information.

 

I don't know... Hey Harry!! Can you give your Houton buddies a ring and see if they'd be interested?

 

do we know how the parking is?

 

I know it's $12/day. I'll have to call and see how it's set up.

 

Woo hoo! I have been formally invited!

 

Ack! We texans have our own thread area!? freaking sweetness! your stalking skills are impressive Dazy, I REALLY want to go, this is just the thing I need.. but as of this moment your gonna have to add me to the sourpuss group Hopefully something will change between now and the then, but if things stay the same there's isn't anyway I can make it