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I wish I could, but it's too busy of a time for me. And getting to Chicago would be hard. So I'll have to pass.
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I have a 7 passenger mini van. Realistically it fits 6 comfortably. I'd like to hold a spot for xnera open, because she may have no other means of transportation.
So 1)Me 2)Kat 3)Fugu 4)Frisco 5)xnera (tentative)
Looks like we've got room for one more person or two if ya'll want to get cozy. If I've promised these spots to someone already, remind me. Otherwise they are open.
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Also it will be approximately a 6 hour drive, though I need to double check on the exact location. Hopefully we won't hit the blinding snowstorm we did last time. And, good conversation always makes the time fly.
(Yahoo says 5.5 hours.) Also, I'd appreciate it, if you can't make it to my house directly, if you could try to make your way out of the City of Chicago proper. Try to head to O'Hare Airport, Schaumburg (has a major bus hub) or Arlington Heights (Metra can get you there for about $6.)
Running around picking people up from all over creation isn't fun. Getting every one to the Western suburbs cuts out hours of me driving around to pick people up.
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AJ, just so you know, Dan and I will be leaving earlier on Friday because I need to be at the rehersal. I didn't want you to sit around waiting to hear from us. Posts: 3214 | Registered: Apr 2002
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AJ, another "just so you know:" I'll be driving myself there for the wedding, but I'll be leaving again that night.
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Since I keep reading this topic wrong, I'll just answer it anyway -- No, BobNI have made other transporation arrangements. But thanks for the offer.
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Ummm... maybe? I'm not sure of my plans yet -- I'm going to be getting an Amtrak monthly pass and I'll be visiting friends in the Midwest right before the wedding, and I'm trying to figure out the @#$%&* Amtrak schedule, and depending on where I'm at it may be easiest for me to get to Chicago instead of relying on the once-a-day Amtrak service to Iowa to be on time...
(Alternatively: CT and other Madison folks -- anyone coming from Madison have room? I might be in Madison right before the wedding, depending on my schedule...)
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plaid, you could come with me from Madison, but I plan on arriving a couple of hours before the wedding and then heading back to Madison during the reception. If that works for you, I'd be happy to chauffeur. Posts: 14017 | Registered: May 2000
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Or, if you want to stay for the reception and aren't too concerned about where you rejoin Amtrak, you could ride down with CT and then head up to MN with me Sunday or Monday. I won't be leaving IA until after the last airport run is done, however, so it's not exactly scheduled yet. Or we could probably get you to the train stop in IA, if you prefer that.
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CT -- I wanna be at the wedding longer (if I'm gonna go to the hassle of getting to Iowa to meet jatraqueros for the first time, then dang it, I'm gonna be there as long as I can!), so I'm hoping to get in Friday.
I've got friends who live in Des Moines that I'm going to be visiting Monday, so ElJay if that's on your way up to Minnesota, I'd love to catch a ride with ya for all of 30 minutes or however far it is... Posts: 2911 | Registered: Aug 2001
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I hate hurrying, and it looks like we'll be meeting other people in various places, so I'll get a flight for Thursday night. I'll go to work on Thursday, so I won't arrive until after five for sure.
Is Midway or O'Hare better?
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Des Moines is south of Ames, but there will be enough people going to the airport there that someone will be able to get you to your friends' house
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O'Hare is much much better. However if you will save over $40 dollars flying into Midway then it would be worth my pain and suffering to get there. Otherwise I'll reimburse the difference so I don't have to drive to Midway!
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Knowing how these sort of things go, I'm guessing we will leave after brunch/lunch on Sunday. That would put us back in the Chicago area around 6pm. If we need to leave earlier that is fine too.
Picking both Russell and Kat up from O'Hare on Thursday evening would work out fabulously for me.
The bridesmaids’ dresses aren’t done and I need to pack for the honeymoon and make Veil Mark III, and line up everything for church while I’m gone and Holy Week and Easter services are coming up . . . . Aaaaaaaaaaaa!
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You've got plenty of time, dkw. They were still stitching my wife's dress 2 hours before the ceremony. After they had to let out one of the bridesmaid's dresses as she was secretly pregnant.
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Yes, but I have six bridesmaid's dresses to be made and the seamstress keeps telling me she'll e-mail me a form for their measurements and she hasn't done it yet!
*hyperventilates*
*goes to call seamstress*
I do have a backup plan, but it involves me and everyone I know with a sewing machine not sleeping the week before the wedding. So I'm hoping we don't have to go that route.
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Well, I could tell the story of how the tux place gave us the wrong ties, and we had to drive Nascar style to the place, where they THREW the right ones to us football style as we sped away to the church. Just bumps along the road...
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SIX BRIDESMAIDS??? That's awesome! Do they all match?
Did Bob have to come up with six brothers/friends for ushers? My mom had seven bridesmaids (two sisters, one SIL, one long-standing maid of my grandmother, and three friends), and my dad had to come up with seven guys to fill out the other side. He had one brother, but he'd only lived in Houston for a year and had been dating my mother most of that time. He was asking random co-workers at work if they'd be in his wedding. Posts: 1163 | Registered: Jan 2005
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We actually made our lists separately and both came up with eight. But two of my attendants are bridesmen, so they’re wearing tuxes. And the groomsmaid found a seamstress in her own town to make her dress. Posts: 9866 | Registered: Apr 2002
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The list of who is riding with AJ. I think we are basically full now.
AJ Kat Frisco Stray Fugu Plaid
Unless you have previously discussed your travel arrangments with AJ (Kat, Stray and Fugu) Please attempt to arrive Thursday Evening or Friday Morning, to O'Hare Airport or in the Schaumburg-Arlington Heights vicinity.
Getting to the Northwest suburbs or O'Hare will simplify AJ's life and she's only hanging onto her sanity now by a few threads because of the TEN puppies.
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cool. Honestly if you post approximate arrivals here, it will be easier to track than if you send me individual e-mails. I'll lose the e-mails, I can always find this thread.
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11:15 AM Friday morning at Union Station (coming in on bus), let me know if you'd like me to get somewhere else to meet y'all!
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Plaid I just sent you and Stray an e-mail. I suspect that you, she and fugu will all be arriving approximately at the same time into Union station. From there you should be able to walk across the street and catch a Metra train for Arlington Heights for about $6. I'll pick you up at the Arlington Heights station, and it will be much less hassle than me driving into the city.
I've already given Stray all of the directions, but I'll have to re-dig them up for you, if she can't forward them on (I don't save my outgoing e-mail in that account.)
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So that no one else loses the information in an e-mail either. You need to travel from Union station to the Ogilvie Transportation center, basically across the street. Here is a map: http://metrarail.com/Sched/cnw_nw/chicago_ogilvie.shtml
You need to walk *out* the Madison Street exit of Union Station (sometimes a little tricky) in order to cross the street and walk Into Ogilvie.
Stray and fugu are arriving at 10:40. Plaid is arriving at 11:15. You guys should be able to all collectively make the 11:30 outbound train, plaid only has 15 minutes leeway but it should be doable. A one-way ticket is $3.70 per person.
You should purchase this before you get on the train. They charge you extra if you buy it from the conductor while you are on the train. (Maybe stray and fugu could get a ticket for plaid so that is one less thing he has to do, with the time crunch?)
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AJ -- so what to do if my bus is late and I can't catch the 11:30 AM bus -- should I catch the 12:30 PM? Will you have a cell phone or somesuch that I can call?
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