WSJP weekend thoughts

Hey all. I know this is really only of interest to any of the WSJP'ers who read this (hehe...P'ers) but I was brainstorming ideas for the annual weekend or whatever. I know a few of us kicked it around after Malarkey's when Stiga was in town. Here's some ideas we kicked around:

1) Chicago.....one of my favorite places in the world (for obvious reasons). There's only a million things to do in the city. There are more awesome bars and places to eat then you could go in a lifetime. There is zero chance we would get bored. Depending on when we go, we could even take in a Cubs game at Wrigley, which would make Adam VERY VERY happy (or a White Sox game if we absolutely had to). Getting there wouldn't be too bad, only about 4 hrs from Toledo. I know staying there can get expensive, but if we stayed a little way out, like on the North Side somewhere, its pretty easy and cheap to take the L train everywhere we'd want to go.

2) Toronto....I've been here once when I was pretty young, but I remember it being a very cool place and people seem to rave about it. There seems alot to do there, but I'd have to do more research on things to do, places to go, places to stay, etc. It would be obviously a longer trip for everyone, especially Stiga and Jen but we could even take the train up there, which would be cool. Though it seems Chach and J will be back here just months later for the Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship.

3) North Carolina....not sure this would work, but the beach sure would be nice. It would be super convenient for Stiga and Jen and I'm sure they could show us a ton of things to do down there. It would be a very long drive for the OH and MI people, and would require longer than just a long weekend probably. And I know people will probably go down later and see them. But did I mention that the beach would sure be nice? Anyway...might be a better idea for later years. But worth thinking about.

Those are the three ideas I remember talking about....here's one that I thought about....probably a silly idea but I thought I'd throw it out..

4) Southeast Ohio (Athens)....this may not be of any interest to anyone but me, but this might be a cool, different idea. For people who've never been down there, the whole are around Athens is a beautiful, hilly state park region. Its the Hocking Hills region, and it has awesome parks, paths, and nature type things. There seems to be alot of hotels, campgrounds and especially cabins to rent right in this area. There is also Athens...which is maybe the best college town I've ever been to. There are more cool bars than people in our group so that would be good. Its a good 5 hrs for the MI contigent and I have no idea how far for Stiga and Jen (though closer than Toronto or Chicago would be. So feel free to call this idea dumb, but it seemed kinda cool to me.

So those are my thoughts, basically for the WSJP guys and the select guests that would be more than welcome. Not sure anyone actually reads my posts, so I may email this to everyone and get their reaction. But feel free to comment if you wanna. Never too early to plan these things. ok, this is ridiculously long. later!