*MY* convention writeup (part 3)

[Raymond A. Kawski]

"KIERAN A. LAVIN" wrote:

> have a hangover.  I had a sore throat from all the shouting but that was

Neither did I.  Drinking lots of water everytime you wake up in
the middle of the night helps too.  That and popping some
advil works too.  Plus as Larry Weeks said to me "You do very well
on little sleep"  I think I had 10 hours sleep total from Thursday
night.

> it.  Joe and I went over the picnic and started to wander the picnic area
> and car show.  There was plenty of time to relax, hang out, and enjoy the

At this time Mike Kojima and I were washing the Disco Potato.
David Evans helped us dry it off and clean it up.  We headed over
with the corded tired Potato.

> 20?) went to a local Mexican restaurant for dinner.  After dinner, we hung
> out in the parking lot bullshitting for a while.  Ray and Joe had

Where we celebrated Joe's 30th.

> to the Grand Canyon.  Ray had called and checked on flight availability
> and there was a flight going out Monday evening at 11:55PM as opposed to

Yeah after being on the phone for like 20 minutes.  In the mean
time the hostess from the resturaunt said take me with you.  She
decided not to go.  Do you blame her?

> going to take but we figured we'd be ok since it was only another 10 miles
> or so.  Well, Matt's car ran out of gas!  We went ahead and got him some
> gas.  We only wound up losing about 20 minutes or so in our trip.

Matt's wife was quite entertained by this all.  I came back
and told her we hadn't gotten gas and that we would get on
the road and they would have to get us gas.  She was laughing
really hard now.

> to the tourist center and found information on flights and helicopter

We?  I found the stuff.  Ostlund and actually.

> rides over the Grand Canyon.  We booked a flight for $60.  The flight was
> *AWESOME*  I've flown over the Grand Canyon on flights to California but

It was so good that we had the 19 passenger flight to ourselves!
It was definitely worth the $60.  Joe and Kelly weren't wanting to
take the flight at first.  But we were all glad we did afterward.

> coming from.  Anyhow we met up with them for dinner.  After dinner, we had

It was going to be Kyles birthday but they were already
celebrating his sons birthday.  I didn't want to ruin it so I
sent him a Shirley Temple from Jarrod Holstein.  He finally
figured out that it came from me.  I asked the waiter if he was
going to retaliate.  He said yeah.  So I was waiting for
something good.  So Kyle told them to send me the bill for
the table.  Lets just say I wound up getting the last laugh
on that one.

> know!  I'll show you around and let you stay at my place.  I'm a 10 minute
> walk and a 10 minute train ride away from Manhattan.  My place is open to
> you guys!

Although my place isn't as nice as Kieran's if any of you ever
want to go Skiing in the Poconos' you are welcome.

RK