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Don't forget swimsuits and any props or extra costume accessories you can manage.
I want the costume play to be a blast this year, so if anybody has any ideas for backdrops or locations for photo ops, let me know.
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park is only about three miles from the hotel, I drove by there the other day. I haven't been there in a few years, but it's a pretty standard national park. Plus cannons and Civil War stuff. It might be good for forest backgrounds for fotos, w/or w/out cannons. Also there are hiking trails.
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Keep in mind that JaneX and I can't go anywhere from sundown Friday night till it's dark Saturday night unless we can walk there.
Which reminds me, Olivia, are we making some kind of in-house food plans for Saturday lunch, like we did last year?
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I was going to order something for just you guys and me, and let everyone else order pizza or whatever. Catering for it last year took years off my life. *sigh*
I was going to ask you about gellatin. I know Jell-O is animal derived, but is there kosher gellatin or a brand of vegetarian gellatin you could point me to? I was going to try my hand at making a dessert for everybody. Could you eat it even if my kitchen isn't kosher, as long as nothing comes in contact with meat? Also, the recipe involves cream, does dairy have to be kosher? I forget.
For lunch I was going to go with some vegetarian wraps from this place I know. If everybody would be cool with me ordering for everyone, we can do it that way. The wraps are about $3.00 and you can get them with chicken, too.
Thing is, even when I did the full catering thing last year, with $100.00 worth of lasagna and I dunno how much of my own time and effort, some people still ordered pizza.
I will definitely have stuff there, and I WILL make Certain that Ela and JaneX are well-fed because of their special dietary restrictions. Everyone else can pitch in for wraps, order pizza or whatever.
The plan is to do lunch at the hotel by delivery or hit fast food, then go out as a group Saturday after sunset.
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We can also walk to the many restaurants around. Despite what Dave's car thinks, On The Border is not only accessibly by highway.
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I don't want you to go to any unneccessary trouble over the food, so let's just do what is easiest.
Kosher gelatin can probably be found in the kosher food section of your grocery store. You might also find it in a healthfood/organic foods store. It would definitely be available in a kosher foods store, if you have one in your area. If all else fails, I could send you some.
Dairy doesn't have as strict requirements as meat - JaneX and I will eat any dairy product, as long as it doesn't contain gelatin or other meat products.
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What I'm thinking of is a sort of raspberry-cream sort of mousse-y thing that is prepared in a spring form pan. The gellatin just sort of gives it shape. I'm SURE I can get some kosher gellatin. I'll call around.
Okay, so anybody have a birthday around that weekend?
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Son the cream with the gellatin is a no-go, unless I can find some vegan gellatin. Vegan gellatin would be okay?
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Good luck on that; I was researching for another thread, and I found that some students did develop a vegan, soy-based gelatin product, but it's not been picked up by a company yet, as far as I can tell. Googling "vegan gelatin" or "soy gelatin" will tell the whole story.
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Just wanted to let you-all know, I've reserved a room for Fri. and Sat. So, any women who didn't have a room, also welcome with me and Emma.
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Birthdays...i know this special 13 yr old who celebrates her birthday on March 6. maybe we can do something for her.
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Well, I let the block of rooms go. Today was the deadline. However, last year we had no difficulty getting the lower rate for last minute people, so don't fret.
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rivka said kosher gelatin was made out of kosher cow hides. So if it isn't labeled "pareve", it's not kosher (with cream, anyway). (A "p" on the label alone never stands for pareve.)
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Hmmmm. Olivia, when would be most convenient for me to come in? Right now, I could come in either Thur. or Fri. at a negligable cost difference (although that will probably change again) at several times. What would be easiest on whoever is picking us up?
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So, is it too late to change my WenchCon status from "dropping by on Saturday" to "staying all weekend for all fun and festivities"?
I've just decided to attend a conference being held in Atlanta on March 10-11, so I'll be around right in time for WenchCon, and I would be very thrilled to be able to come!
I'm female (23 y/o), so KQ & Emma or Ela & Jane, if there's still a spot in either of your rooms, I'd love to snatch it up! I'm not scary, I promise. If there are no longer any spaces or if you're not comfy staying with a perfect stranger, I completely understand, and I'm fine to book my own; just keep me posted!
[Also, since the conference sponsored hotel on Thursday night is the Hyatt (very steep rates!), I'm planning on staying at the WenchCon hotel on Thursday night. If anyone is around Thursday night and hasn't yet found accomodations, I'd be happy to have them join me. I'm going to book the room on Monday, so just let me know.]
Thanks in advance for letting a lurker crash the party. If there's anything I can do/bring/etc, let me know! Thanks again.
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Lucky, if you don't mind a baby, we'd be thrilled to have you. I think Katie will probably be staying with us, too, but she could also sleep around, and either one would be fine with me, as long as someone splits the cost. I'm also not averse to sharing a bed with anyone who doesn't mind possibly having a baby in it part of the morning (and possibly night; depends how she adjusts). I'm sure Jane and Ela will also love to have you.
We can probably even wait until the time comes to figure it out.
I ended up going ahead and bookng my flights because of the prices. My flights are supposed to get in at 12:42 pm on Thurs. and leave at 4:10 pm Sun. (which would mean getting to the airport by around 2:40, 3:05 at the latest).
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Oh, whoever's picking us up, I'll e-mail you exact flight info and arrange for to meet you closer to time. Just so you know, the car seat is a bit big, and usually requires pushing the front passenger seat fairly far forward. (Like, all the way in some cars.)
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Olivia, what kind of props or accessories should we bring? 'Cause I don't know what everyone else has, I'll have to look at mine, but if there's something it would be cool to have more of, I'll see if I have any. I just need to know what everyone's going to want to use.
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Thanks so much, KQ! Staying with you sounds wonderful, or if it works out that things are crowded with you, I can shift elsewhere. I'll toss a sleeping bag in my trunk, just in case. Also, I'll bring cash to the event so that I can pay whomever gets stuck with me at that time. Thanks again!
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Since others were phrasing it that way earlier, I just jumped on the bandwagon. Katie's a good girl. I'm sure if she sleeps around, it will be chaste. Posts: 21182 | Registered: Sep 2004
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Actually, despite being made from cow hides, kosher gelatin is parve -- hides are NOT meat, nor are they normally edible. As here:
quote: Kosher gelatin can be made with fish bones, and/or beef skins. Contrary to assumptions, it is also considered kosher to use it with dairy products. Kosher law is very complex and the bones and hides used in gelatin production are considered parve. The general meaning of parve refers to foods that are neither milk nor meat, and many people assume this means that the product is vegetarian. However, OU parve certified ingredients can have animal products, such as fish, eggs, and gelatin, in them.
If you prefer the truly vegan alternatives to gelatin, look for ones based on carrageenan and agar agar. Here's one.
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The only definite arrival time I have gotten so far is Friday afternoon around 4PM. I'd like to group the arrivals to one trip per day to the arirport, if possible, to make it easier for Tmedina, Morbo and me on the pick-ups.
Thing is, the Friday at 4pm pick-up MUST be at the hotel before sundown, so an arrival time laterthan that will need a separate pick-up (probably, I need to check the time the sun sets on that day, but going north at rush hour can take some time).
That said, with Morbo and TMedina helping, it should be do-able. If you guys come in on Thursday, I'll make one trip and get you myself.
The hotel should still take group reservations under the "Computer Companions" even though I released the block. Nobody expectsthem to fill up.
Email me detais when you know something-- I don't get on Hatrack much lately. Been painting my bedroom red. And generally cleaning house.
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I now have flight info in TWO People, even though I'm fairly certain there are at least FOUR who will be flying in.
I suggest that we locals who will be picking up and dropping off people have a meeting sometime before the actual weekend.
That would be Ben and Ophelia, Morbo, TMedina and me (If I left someone out, lemme know). I say we have brunch the weekend before and settle assignments on who does which runs, so we aren't all crazy when the time comes. Crazier than usual, I suppose I should say.
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We could brunch the Saturday before, but I think Sunday is out (We will probably be on the road to NC then.). But the morning/early afternoon of the 5th is okay for us.
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My flight gets there at 10:53 PM on Friday or thereabouts. I couldn't get anything earlier. Olivia, I'll be forwarding my flight info to you.
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