Capclave.

[rivka]

This coming weekend, curiousangel, thelilalex, and I will be at Capclave in Silver Spring, MD.

Looks like I'll be seeing several of you there. Anyone want to make advance arrangements to get together for a meal? Anyone who's done it before have advice about babies and SF cons?

Comments

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Don't expect a nice quiet meal at a nice restaurant. Ain't gonna happen :)

"Family-friendly" is now your watchword.

Always have the stroller handy, and make sure that ANY panel you go to (whichever of you has the baby), you're sitting in the back of the room. Be prepared to leave at any time.

Carry spare plastic bags for diapers, since you can't guarantee a bathroom and a changing station where you need one.

Arrange in advance to have someone else watching the baby so you can go to a panel that you absolutely do not want to miss.

If there's a lovie involved, do NOT forget it at home (I once had my dad FedEx a stuffed bear to the Disclave hotel, overnight, Saturday delivery).

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Alex is still good about falling asleep in the sling when it's time, so we might be able to get away with nice restaurant meals for one more trip - as long as we plan them for just after bedtime. Failing that, there's always carry-out.

If there's a lovie involved, do NOT forget it at home (I once had my dad FedEx a stuffed bear to the Disclave hotel, overnight, Saturday delivery).

What a good father you are. :-)

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

We had to hear him wail all the way from the Verazzano to Tyson's Corner. It was worth every penny spent. (I was seriously considering turning around and driving up to NY just to get it).

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

Most fen are baby-friendly, some of us fatuously so. A small but quite outspoken minority, however, are not. Be prepared to sneak out of any event where the darling child starts to make noise; and adjust to the fact that the aforementioned minority feels that those of us who bring babies to conventions are imposing on them and diminishing their joy with our noisy brats (all non-silent children are noisy brats, you see).

How about dinner, Saturday, around 4:30/5 pm?

[selki.livejournal.com]

I'm interested in trying Mandalay at its new location (http://www.mandalayrc.com/); I liked their place near U of MD. However, that's several blocks, and there are decent, closer, places.

Also FYI, I'm pretty likely to try to make these events:

Are there any utopias in SF/F Today? Sat. noon

Blogging 1 pm
Author GOH speech 2
Editor GOH speech 3

Team Bonzai (Banzai?) 7
Energy of the Future 8
Mad Scientists 9

Not sure I'll make any Friday or Sunday events.

Re: How about dinner, Saturday, around 4:30/5 pm?

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

I ate at Mandalay a few weeks ago, and liked it very much. They were grumpy about seating us before our entire party arrived, though, and it's possible that was because they tend to fill up. (My group went around five on Saturday, I think, and they were mostly empty, so if we do go then we should be fine. If we decide to go later, though, it might be a problem.)

Re: How about dinner, Saturday, around 4:30/5 pm?

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I'd love to go to Mandalay - isn't that the Burmese place? I think Jon Singer has been telling me about it for years. And 5pm would be an excellent time for dinner, actually, to let us get back before Alex's bedtime. (The other alternative is letting her go to sleep in the sling, but that probably requires being very close to the hotel - like next door.)

I'm glad you'll be there! I hope you'll bring your Quiddler deck, because I am absolutely determined that we'll get a chance to play together sometime.

Re: How about dinner, Saturday, around 4:30/5 pm?

[selki.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's the place. My one warning is that if a waiter warns you a dessert is hot and might burn your mouth, believe him, and eat it in VERY small yummy bites.

How about I touch base with you right after the blogging panel, to pick a gathering place before we walk over?

My Quiddler deck's in my game bag in my car. I've put a note in my Palm Pilot to bring it into the hotel with me ... now, to check it for notes on Saturday morning!

[marykaykare.livejournal.com]

I'm arriving Wed. night, Jordin on Friday night. Looking forward to meeting Alex.

MKK

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yay! We'll be driving down after lunch on Friday, so we'll be there by mid-afternoon.

[lisajulie.livejournal.com]

Silver Spring food - I highly recommend Mandalay. jonsinger has been singing justifiable praises of it for some time now, and I concur.

It is about six decent-size blocks from the hotel. They are open 11:30-3:00, 5:00-10:00 on Friday and Saturday. Sunday, they close at 9:00 pm. The virtue of going on Sunday is that you get a shot at the Sunday Special (chicken on saffron rice).

jonsinger and I will be at Capclave, but I have no clue as to our schedules or social commitments (I leave that to him as he's really good at it.).

Just FYI, about four blocks from the hotel is a Whole Foods Market, open from 08:00-22:00, seven days a week. They have a hot food bar and a salad bar with more limited hours, but it is a nice spot for emergency food shopping. About a block and some south on Colesville Rd. is an Italian deli, San Marco (I think). It used to be wonderful, has changed hands, but still has a good reputation. And between the hotel and Whole Foods is a redeveloped set of blocks with a bunch of chain, but decent, restaurants. And a stellar hardware store, Strohsniders, an independent, should _that_ prove necessary!

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - one oughtn't try to read LJ too early in the a.m.

I know better, but I just found myself wondering "who's their new friend, The Lila Lex?"

HLC
going back to lurking now

[rivka.livejournal.com]

therealjae will be delighted. She predicted this one.

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

therealjae will be delighted. She predicted this one.

She did? LOL!!! But what else would you expect from someone who chooses to use a quaint alternative spelling for the more logical "There, algae"??

HLC
(running away very very fast)

food event

[(Anonymous)]

Kip, Sarah and I should be arriving Friday afternoon. Dinner Friday night? There's a mall thingy next door that was calm about Sarah the last time we were there.

Cathy Doyle

Re: food event

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Next door would be perfect, because Alex can go to sleep in the sling if we stay out past bedtime. Yay! I've been wanting to meet Sarah for ages.