Oh Boy, Please Excuse My Above Answer About Sitting Together At State Night Dinner, I Always Think Of The Right Thing After The Fact And Usually Say The Wrong Thing Before.

I Think We Should Leave State Night Dinner The Way It’s Supposed To Be And Sit With People From Our State. I Believe That’s Done So We Can Meet People From Our State Who Have Gbs/cidp Because You Might Meet Someone Who Lives Very Near You. I Went To The Phoenix Symposium Two Years Ago And Met A Couple Who Lived In The Next Town.

There May Be A Few People Who Wear A Cocktail Dress, But Most Will Just Wear What They Wear To The Workshops. I Don’t Wear Dresses Either, I’m A Pants And Tee Shirt Person. My Ankle High Lugged Boots Would Look Tacky Tacky With A Dress.

Everything For A Get Together Of Our Forum Family Will Fall In Place When We’re There. We Didn’t Have Things Put Together At The Phoenix Symposium Until We Got There And We Did Manage To Gather Up Our Family.

I don’t like the idea of trying to get together prior to the state night dinner. It would be too much for my fatigue level attending a workshop, then our get together, then state night dinner. And some people like to wear a cocktail dress or be dressy casual for the dinner, so you’d want time to shower and change. I remember from the last symposium that dress is optional, shirt and pants/sweater and pants was fine.

State Night Dinner is supposed to be exactly what it says, you sit with your state, but if our foundation would allow a change, I vote for getting our forum family together at State Night Dinner, we could think of it as Family Night Dinner. If the tables are round, we may need two or three separate tables, if they are square, we could push some together. Just think what a great photo that would make to post on forum.

If we have enough of our members at the resort on Thursday, we could speak to Estelle. I’ll be arriving on Thursday between 3:00 and 4:00pm.

Our last session/meeting/workshop will end at 5:00pm on Saturday, so we’ll probably have some of our members attending that, but our get together will be better for me if we get our people together for a party/dinner right after that, so I have no objection to accomodating WITHHOPE. Chronic fatigue is a biggie for me. I hope we don’t have to pay for the space for a large group.

OOOOOOOH, I’ll go for a young, big, strong guy to bump me up and down a few steps 😀

The foundation will probably hand out ribbons with our given name on them. I made myself a tag with my username on it. All you really need to do is use card stock paper and print out your user name with big print lettering.

Dawn,
I Counted At Least Eleven From Our Forum Who Are Going, But If Other’s Off Our Forum Hear About Our Get Together, We Should Welcome Them Too. Dawn, You Could Really Help Us By Calling The Resort And Find Out Which Dining Room/ Bar Would Accomodate Maybe About Twenty People And Let Them Know Some Of Us Are In Wheelchairs. The Cave Sounds Like A Fun Place, If There Are Only About Two Or Three Steps, With Help, A Wheelchair Can Bump Down.

I just checked the brochure for the symposium and Sat. the 8th is our free night. If we can work it out, I would vote for the resort restaurant. If it’s a warm mild evening, they may also have a patio area.

I kinda thought this would be held in a very surburban area. If we do want to get our forum family together on a free night, I think the resort restaurant would be the best choice. Someone would have to find out if the restaurant could accomodate a large party. The bar may serve sandwiches, but Dawn said they have steps to go down, so people in wheelchairs are BANNED.

I get a little touchy about wheelchair issues. I yearn to go on the day trips my new community puts together, but I can’t step up on a bus if I am alone.