Oh, and so this isn't just a crabby rant...
Friday, July 07, 2006
we're really bad at planning.
Every time the ball gets slightly rolling on the proposed cedar point trip, discussions fall off and nothing happens. It's a month away, people! If Ms. SocialTrinity doesn't want her Marriott points, I'll reserve the hotel! I just don't want this not to happen because we suck and can't plan for shit.
Oh, and so this isn't just a crabby rant...
Oh, and so this isn't just a crabby rant...
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Fo shizzle, says I. Basically the main thing we have to do is reserve the hotel and get the CEDARPOINT OMG!!!111!!1!1!! tickets, right? Is there anything else in particular we have to plan for? I assume driving plans and meeting times and such can be worked out closer to the actual time. What else am I forgetting?
I am happy to help with any of this, but I lack Marriott-point status. I also lack AAA, which might be used to get discounted CEDARPOINT OMG!!!11!1one!11!!!!!11! tickets... although we could also just do the 2-day "Ride and Slide" deal offered on the web site for the low, low price of $64.95.
Although, I have just read the previous posting re: theme park ticket prices, and I see that ^kat^ might have been able to get discount tickets from her dear mother. Can we get details on that?
MJ, who is realizing that he is offering mainly useless information and blind speculation but still trying to move the conversation forward somehow, and who would like to note that he writes this post while proctoring an SAT at the New Haven Kaplan center.
whoa. I, like, just happened to check this page and you'd just commented. CRAZY GO NUTS. (I personally think you should stand up and say something inappropriate very loudly while proctoring, but I GUESS that might "cost you your job" or whatverz. laaaame.)
Anyway. Hotel is what's immediately important; I can probably get the discount ticket hookup, but we won't need that until we actually enter the park gates, so that's not as critical. Mom also sent me some CP coupons the other day so I'll do a little comparison of various discounts and report back. I guess what I'd like us to figure out is what we're doing for the second day. I mean, I'd love to do 2 days of CEDARPOINT OMG, but I get the sense that the rest of y'all don't want to do that. What I'm trying to impress upon you is that there's not a lot else to do in Sandusky. (Relatedly, I've got the "Nothing Ever Happens in Blaine" song from Waiting for Guffman running through my head at the mo'.) Seriously. SMALL FREAKING TOWN. I bet they didn't even have a Harry Potter party last june. So if we want to canoe, great! We just need to make sure there's a place where we CAN canoe, whether it requires reservations, etc. If we want to go prowling around Toledo (probably under an hour away) so Dani can have her Apple Pancake, great! If we want to thwart the maids and sit in our hotel room all day playing poker, great! If we want to make a big ol' road trip down to the 62' Jeeebus and Hustler superstore across the highway from one another, great!
I'd just feel better if I had a better idea of which of these we were planning on attempting in advance, that's all. I promise not to rant anymore. (I can make no promises about future Obi-MC Hammer posts, though.)
Hmm, I thought the plan WAS to do two days of CEDARPOINT OMG, but perhaps not. Notably, the 2-day pass of which I spake is for both CEDARPOINT OMG itself and the accompanying water park, so that might provide some additional options. Not to mention nearby Challenge Park, which I don't know much about but which seems to offer things like go kart racing on a pay-per-play basis (or, as the French say, a la karte). A two-day pass also provides us some weather insurance.
That said, I am not 100% committed to dual-dayed (D-A-Y-E-D...) theme-parking if someone prefers an alternative plan. E.g., I am not morally opposed to either canoeing or mini-roadtrips to Jesuses and/or porn shops. These also sound like relatively brief excursions (except for the canoeing, I guess, which could take all day), so we could also do some of them (e.g. trip to Toledo for an Apple Pancake, whatever the eff that is) at night, or do 1.5 days of CEDARPOINT OMG and take an additional .5 day for mini-road-trippage.
I think I actually was opposite-of-helpful again, as I provided more options rather than fewer, but how's about this: I vote for 2 days of CEDARPOINT OMG, with no particular desire to do any one additional thing, but I am prepared to be whittled down as necessary if individuals express side-excursion desires.
my two cents' worth: I believe that this is agreed upon by all, but let's (and by "let's" I mean "she-who-gets-marriott-points") reserve the hotel ASAP and put off the one- vs. two-day CEDARPOINT decision for as long as possible. I personally believe that we will achieve maximum fun regardless of how we spend our two sightseeing days -- who'd've thought we could pass an entire morning in a cavern? -- so I see no reason to stress about planning down to the minute just now. but I'll throw another idea out there: if we choose not to spend both days at the amusement park and it looks like the weather will be equally good both days, I suggest we spend sunday pursuing alternative sources of fun (I support toledo and giant religious sculptures) and save hopefully-less-crowded monday for CEDARPOINT!!!11ETCETC. no need to vote on this just now, but keep it in mind...
Ericat13 makes two good points. Well, three, I suppose, the first being--
1) RESERVE A HOTEL NOW. (hellooo... helloooooo...?)
but the other two of note:
2) Monday at CEDARPOINT OMG is a given. If we're only doing one day, it makes sense to do the likely-to-be-less-busy day. And if we're doing 2 days, well, then we're there Monday anyway.
3) We, as entertaining people, tend to make anything we do fun. (warm fuzzies all around!)
But the cold, hard truth that Ericat13 does not realize is that THERE ARE NO CAVERNS IN SANDUSKY. There is a lake. There is an amusement park. There are, apparantly, go karts (which I really, really like and at which I would whoop your collective asses were we to attempt them). But we're not likely to just happen into random fun-ness the way that we did in and around Hershey. So we will, at some point, need to decide what we're going to do on that other day (made more complicated by the fact that it's the first full day of the trip rather than the second), and it just seems to me easier to make that decision when we're not sitting around a hotel room staring at each other. (The inertia of the hotel room is strong, my jedi friends. We must be equally strong to fight it. Break it down! ohhh ohh ohh ohhhhh ohhh ohh oh... anyway.)
So, the bottom line is that I am anti-waiting as long as possible to make the first-day planning decision, but that could be because I'm my mother's child and the deep-seated urge to plan out a trip in meticulous detail courses through my veins with every lub-dub of my heart. With that, kiddies, I'm off to wash the grime of sunscreen, city dirt, and Fountains of Wayne spittle off of me. Because I was front freaking row for their free (!) concert today at Taste of Chicago. *throws metal sign and skips off to bathroom*
I, too, agree that Monday is a better day for going to CEDARPOINT OMG. Of course, Monday also has the disadvantage of being the second day chronologically of our two activity days, so if it unexpectedly rains that day, we are slightly screwed.
I guess it really depends on the exact ticket situation... i.e., precise pricing of one- versus two-day passes and whether obtainment of tickets is such that we could modify our plans accordingly if we find out the week of the trip that weather will be iffy one or both days.
But, assuming weather looks OK for Monday and/or we just decide to take our chances, I'm down for a Sunday full of Toledo, giant Jeebus, and porn shopping, which will also give us something to do Sunday night (hello, Playmate of the Apes 2... unless OH has some kind of Sunday no-porn blue laws... ^kat^, care to weigh in here?).
Of course, if that plan fails, we can always buy a kiddie pool and a bunch of Jell-O at Wal-Mart and you all can have a good old-fashioned round-robin wrestling tournament, at which I would be honored to officiate. I'm sure the maids could clean around you. Heck, they might even join in.
Just in case they're non-Englishly monolingual, I'll start practicing now: "¿Usted tiene gusto de ensamblar nuestro torneo de lucha del Jell-O?"
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