Kingofpain89 wrote:Couple of questions:

1) Who will be arriving on or before Wednesday afternoon?
2) Is it too early to start thinking about where to get together for the Acaeum dinner?

I should be arriving in Indy sometime just after noon on Wednesday.  Once I get checked into my hotel I really don't want to just sit around doing nothing.  Can't really do much at the convention center except pick up my grab bag and wanted to know if some people might want to meet up somewhere (hotel lobby or something like that) and head up to what I have read is one of the best German restaurants in the Midwest.

http://www.rathskeller.com/default.htm

Award winning menu and fifty imported beers....what's not to like?     Just an idea....would be just as happy hanging out in a cheap Irish pub or someone's room eating pizza.

The Wife and I will arrive Tuesday....so we'll definitely be there by Wed night. I'm up for either a dinner, or a game, or both.  I'd love to run the dungeon I had planned, but time doesn't permit unless it's either Wed or Sunday night. If enough of us aren't entirely beat Sunday night that might be fun to do after everything has wound down...I know quite a few of us will still be in town (Al, Prufrock, King, Adder, Blackmoor, etc)

Mike B.

Hi,

we're going to arrive on Tuesday, around lunchtime.

There will be 5 of us, tho its entirely possible 2 will slope off with their CCG buddies.

I will have to set the stall up tho, and price stuff, but I'm certainly up for some evenings entertainment.

Isnt The Ram the place to be?

Cheers,
Malc

Hi,

possibly - tho our hotel is attached almost directly to the Dealers Hall, so I may be doing the "falling out of bed 5 mins before the Hall opens" routine quite a lot

Where do you have breakfast?

Cheers,
malc

Hello Everyone,

The cafe that myself, Killjoy, Badmike, and Kingofpain had breakfast in last year was indeed The Red Eye Cafe.  Cheap but very good food open 24 hours a day I believe.

The Ram is within easy walking distance.  Kingofpain I believe the Rathskeller is not within walking distance.  I will check on this, it is a very nice place to eat though.

Martin

lawrenson wrote:Isnt The Ram the place to be?

Cheers,
Malc

The Ram is a decent enough brewpub but it is ridiculously busy during the convention.  And I believe that several gaming groups (Kentucky Fried Gamers, Gamer Wenches) have a portion of The Ram booked up on Wednesday so I would expect it to be even more difficult to get in on Wednesday.

The Red Eye is a no-brainer for breakfast.  Any attendees from "across the pond" and the "land down under" will get a sample plate of biscuits and gravy on me if they so choose.  

The Rathskeller is definitely not within walking distance of the convention center.  We would need to take a shuttle bus, cab, or maybe Badmike's van if he is still planning on renting one that is.  This is just an idea for getting together on Wednesday and completely open to suggestions.  It's not like there isnt a ton of restaurants and bars right around the downtown area that we could go to.  I just figured that after a long flight, what is better than sitting around a biergarten drinking beer and listening to polka?  

If anyone wants to check out other restaurants, bars, and their relative locations to the convention center, a GenCon forumite put together a few pretty good Google maps on the GenCon forum.

http://community.gencon.com/forums/t/14274.aspx

And Mike....there is a White Castle pretty close if you get the cravings.  

John, I'll eat the biscuits if you'll eat vegemite  

Oh yes you will  

Prufrock wrote:I would also be willing to drive.

I'll have a vehicle as well.

F

ExTSR wrote:I'll have a vehicle as well.

F

hey frank does that mean your gonna come along weds night for some food and good company then?

Al

ps. have you heard from Tim? been trying to contact him.