Did we...

ever get a list going of who is coming when??? I can't make it there until Friday, but I thought I heard it mentioned somewhere the Iowa group was coming Thursday. Just being curious.

Nicole :)

Welcome...

our newest member to head to the dells with us....does anyone want to take a guess to who it is?

I've spoken to Kerry

and I don't know anything yet...she is going to email me her answer about what she is going to do about it. I told her I felt I had let her know it was a big group of us and how I would be shipping things and I was asking about catering so she had an idea and that my not registering under Julie means that Amanda got screwed up and can she honor the group rate, she did not have to refund me so we'll see. I'll let you ladies know when I know!

An Army Marches on its Stomach

Ok, it's waay too early to worry about finalizing anything, but I was making chili the other day and thinking, Gosh, I like chili, I wonder if it would be good to make at the retreat.

Does anyone have any special dietary needs? Extreme dislikes?

Since our big group is comprised of several little groups, it would probably work to have groups volunteer to do lunch or dinner one of the days. If you want to cook, awesome, if you want to order pizza, or other delivery food, awesome too. I wouldn't mind going into the Dells one of the nights for a dinner out, but otherwise, it's winter so I would rather stay in for the other meals.

What do you think?

Christine and Mandy, let us know what Kerry says when you contact her...I will complain again too, but if all else fails, Shannon gave me an idea this morning: we can always add up what we all owe together and just divide by 18. That would be fair, and then no one is shouldering the difference on their own.

Another reminder-- our deposit is refunded when we pay; like a hotel.

Man, I hate money. :(

Okay, I called Blooming Escapes today to get a rundown on our registration situation and this is what Kerry, the owner, told me:

That Christine and Amanda (Mandy) are both registered with their own separate deposits and she was unaware that they were part of our group (?!). She said that everyone else who registered let her know that they were part of our group, therefore they were not charged a separate deposit, although I was charged with a higher deposit at that time.

I asked her if Christine and Mandy could have their deposits refunded, and their groups could be added to ours, and I would be happy to pay for the further increase in the deposit ($450 instead of the $350 I have already paid). She said no, it would be difficult for her to do that at this point. I let on that I didn't think that was fair, but she didn't budge...BUT, I am thinking that it is possible that if Mandy and Christine call her up individually and ask her about changing their reservation, it is possible she'll do that even though she told ME no. It might be worth a try. It would bring your individual rates down somewhat, because you are each paying a 1-room rate and I guess we are paying a 3-room rate.

Make sense? It just barely does to me. To further complicate things, some people are signed up to arrive on Thursday, and others on Friday. BUT-- she says anyone arriving on Thursday will pay $50 for the Thursday night stay, and that goes for anyone in the TallyRally house.

She did say she would give our entire group of 18 people Sunday night free (because Shannon, Katie, Nicole & I stayed at this retreat in April which gave us the bonus night free).

That's all I got, scrapping friends, if there are other issues here I'm not thinking of, put 'em out there, and maybe we can get it figured out...

registration info

Hi all-- just wanted to let you know that I called Kerry, the owner of Blooming Escapes, this afternoon-to get a run down of the registration situation now that the whole house should be reserved. I am awaiting her e-mail that will put in writing (and maybe clear up) some of the things we discussed. I will post as soon as I receive it-she said she planned to send it out today.

Mandy's email...

So, Mandy's email says she received information in the mail on the weekend. Were we to receive some sort of confirmation outside of the email from the owner? Anyone else receive something in the mail? Just curious.

Um, how incredibly cool is this!?!?!?

I'm really looking forward to this!

Can I get a woot-woot!

TallyRally in the Dells!

Welcome!

I'm going to start listing as much of the information I can get from the emails as possible. Great idea, Nicole!