[blparent] navigating the hotel

Thu Jun 17 04:50:08 UTC 2010

Sounds great.

I am coming with a group from work, and also arriving on July 2nd.

I am having Jordan do the Saturday and Sunday events, and he is looking 
forward to the dance as he will be 14 by then.  Also we are volunteering 
together on a couple of things.

Maybe those of us with older kids can meet over breakfast Saturday morning?

Jordan has a cell phone, so if the kids run around, I can easily get hold of 
them if needed.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie J" <julielj at windstream.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] navigating the hotel

> 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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