[blparent] navigating the hotel

[Julie J]

Amy,

I am also bringing my 13yo son to convention.  I think the 10 to 14 age 
group is tough at convention because they are too old for daycare and too 
young for teen things.  There is the new preteen youth track this year, so 
hopefully that will help fill the age gap.  My son didn't seem to interested 
in the events though, but he's not a social butterfly.

I'd love to meet up with you and your son though.  Perhaps the boys would 
hit it off and could amuse themselves together.  I'm planning on letting my 
son have more freedom to go and do things within the hotel on his own this 
year.  I think he's old enough to not have me tagging along all the time. 
*smile*  But it would make me feel better to know he was with other kids his 
age.

Same goes for anyone with kids in the early teens, I'd love to meet up so 
the kids can mingle and find some new friends to go and fun with during 
convention.    We'll be arriving late July 2nd and are staying in the tower. 
Please feel free to email me before hand to set up something or call me at 
the hotel.  I'm not planning on bringing much technology with me, so it is 
doubtful that I will have access to email while I'm there.  I'm working on 
getting a cell phone and I'd be happy to pass along that number as soon as 
it's available to anyone who wants to meet up.

Looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new ones!
Julie Johnson




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Amy Murillo-Hicks" <amym2 at cox.net>
To: "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>; "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing 
List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] navigating the hotel


> Hi,
>
> I definitely will be bringing my 13-year-old son with me to convention 
> this year, so if any of you are bringing children, maybe it would be good 
> to have them meet each other early on.  I have heard differing information 
> about how it works out sending them to the youth activities.  Have any of 
> you sent your children to the activities?
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss at earthlink.net>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2010 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [blparent] navigating the hotel
>
>
>> Hello:
>>
>>     Look in the Braille Monitors either the May or June issue has a 
>> description of the hotel. Also look at the agenda. I think there is a 
>> description in the front.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Leanne Merren" <leemer02 at gmail.com>
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 10:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] navigating the hotel
>>
>>
>>> I'm trying to remember the layout of the hotel...  If I remember 
>>> correctly, the atrium is where several of the food places are in the 
>>> hotel, while there are some events and the ballrooms on the tower side. 
>>> The exhibit halls were on the atrium side,too.  I liked staying on the 
>>> atrium side, and I don't think it was all that hard to navigate.  There 
>>> are steps when you go from one side of the lobby to the other, but 
>>> there's a water fall by one set that I think was on most of the time so 
>>> that helped a lot.
>>> I hope that helps some.
>>> Leanne
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "trising" <trising at sbcglobal.net>
>>> To: "NFBofMichigan List" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>; "NFBnet Blind Parents 
>>> Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 5:22 PM
>>> Subject: [blparent] navigating the hotel
>>>
>>>
>>>>    If you consider the ease of navigating the hotel as a totally blind 
>>>> person is it better to get a room on the tower side or the
>>>> atrium?
>>>> Every time I have been at national convention I have been on the over 
>>>> flow side farthest away from everything going on at
>>>> convention.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nick
>>>>
>>>>
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