OZ ALFACon 2006!

ShiningHand_Monk · Post by **ShiningHand_Monk** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:23 am

Score! i can do Sydney! no probs. Money ended up looking like it was going to be quite scarce around that time since i'll be going to Korea and perhaps on a cruise, but if its in Sydney, I’ve got no problems there!

I can also set up some sleeping space I suppose, but im quite far away from city central (dran would agree with me there).

Drankathar · Post by **Drankathar** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:46 am

agree with you? hahahaha....

ok maybe this one time...

mxlm · Post by **mxlm** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:23 am

The person Dran ever agrees with is me. He's my very own groupie.

Shut up. Yes you are. No back chat, damn it, yes you are.

Rotku · Post by **Rotku** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:27 am

Tickets all booked!

Post by **loulabelle** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:39 am

Guess who has a plane ticket to Sydney?!!

We fly out of SF Wed January 25th and lose Thursday along the way, landing at 8am-ish Friday 27th! Not leaving until February 8th so any suggestions what to do with our time are welcomed! (So far just booked the actual tickets)

Any recommendations on places to stay? Unless someone wishes for our company the entire Alfacon... I assure you, we are house trained and all that good stuff.

So excited now!!!!!

Lou

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:35 am

I am all booked up too. Arriving in Sydney on Friday the 27th at about 2:15pm.

Lou: If you can stomache it (both the height and the cost) do a bridge climb. I havnt done one yet, and it is fairly expensive ($180 australian) but apparently it is an amazing feeling, and something i plan to do at some point (despite my fear of heights

)

Drankathar · Post by **Drankathar** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:59 am

alrighty, now that everyones booked up ((damn it was hard to get cheep flights to Syd... wait i live here

)) how about we get to thinking about what where gona do?

I was thinking maybe meet out for lunch or something first to get to know everyone then head back to someones ((bools)) for whatever..

anyone got anyideas?

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:36 pm

Last year we all met up about lunch time, had some quick and nasty food (ie maccas), went to the LOTR exhibition that was on, walked around to a few game stores then cruised back to bools for beer, pizza, pnp and just talking about geeky stuff

Any interesting exhibitons on this year?

Rotku · Post by **Rotku** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 10:18 pm

loulabelle wrote:Guess who has a plane ticket to Sydney?!!

We fly out of SF Wed January 25th and lose Thursday along the way, landing at 8am-ish Friday 27th! Not leaving until February 8th so any suggestions what to do with our time are welcomed! (So far just booked the actual tickets)

Any recommendations on places to stay? Unless someone wishes for our company the entire Alfacon... I assure you, we are house trained and all that good stuff.

So excited now!!!!!

Lou

Get yourself a copy of Lonely Planet guide to New South Wales. There's heaps of amazing things there. The two things that jump to mind would be spending a few days camping in Mungo National Park - a large (dried out?) salt lake. Very desert like. But then I guess you get them over in the US so that may be nothing special, I don't know. Also there's the rain forests. I think there's a smallish one a few hours (4?) north of Syndey - I'm hoping to head up there myself before the ALFAcon. And of course the Blue Mountains. That's one place I have been. A few hours outside of Sydney (train ticket there cost around $15 in 2000, I think). Just a large national park with some amazing walks and scenery, and of course has the Janola Caves, which is a must visit place!

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Mon Dec 19, 2005 11:22 pm

Flying in around lunch-time to Sydney on Friday the 27th. Sunday night I'll go see my cousin and I'll head back about midday on the 30th..

Looking forward to it..

So activities.. hmm..

* Well Boozing of course should probably be early in the piece and then some
* Mebbe a bit o pnp action wouldnt be a bad thing, mebbe not combined with the boozing this time?
* Theres some Viking Exhibition on at the Australian Maritime Museum
* The Chinese New Year festival is on around that time and we could check that out
* Need to check on this.. but the Hyde Park barracks museum had(has) an exhibition on punishment for convicts.

Thats all I have for now.. I'll keep looking for some interesting stuff

- Dez

Rotku · Post by **Rotku** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:31 am

What's happening with accomidation?

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 3:53 am

Ill be crashing at bools place certainly the saturday night, probably the friday night too, depending what happens. Will work that out closer to the date.

Last year there were 5 interstate people (myself, zekal, strakkor, thangorn and indio) and 3 of us crashed at bools (thanks bool!)

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:03 am

I'm crashing in a hotel for two nights and then my cousins for a third..

who still needs somewhere to stay?

Rotku · Post by **Rotku** » Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:31 am

Might see if Bool has a spare sofa or something. This trip is going to cost enough.

I'm leaving for Aussie (well, a stop via Auckland first to visit family for a day or two) around the 14th of next month, so it would be great if we could get a rough idea of what is happening before then.

Swift · Post by **Swift** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:43 pm

Agreed, lets get at least the basics sorted ie where we are going to meet on the saturday, what we might get up to and so forth.

Im sorted for accomodation for the 2 nights ill be there (Bools, thanks man

).