You'r complaing of the over-priced Disney stuff, then you say PARIS! The plane trip would cost a fortune!

Anythingn overseas right now is OFF limmits. Midwest and eastern states are open.

Although Disney is 99% in my opinion going to hold the Nats, here are a few other options raised here and other places.

Ohio- Cedar Point and RnR Hall of Fame in (and near) Cleveland
DC- Museums, Metro
Georga- Atlanta- post 96 olimpics stuff
Minnasotta (sp?)- centrally located, but is there anything to do?

Aw, why just Eastern and Mid-Western states...venture on over to the lovely West Coast for Sun and lots of things to do!

and just for reference, it's Minnesota and there is nothing to do there besides go to the Mall of America. No offense to any Minnesotans, I was born there, lived there for many years and am still a loyal Vikings (even if they are sucking right now) and Twins fan...there's just nothing to do there when I go back and visit!

It's also April which means that it's going to be raining or snowing. As for the boredom, there are plenty of theatres and art museums along with the historical sites :p . I lived in Florida and now Disneyworld is boring. Wherever the Nationals are held, somebody won't be happy.

I was not complaining about the the "overpriced Disney stuff," and was not all that serious about Paris as a venue for the championship, though I think going there would be a good experience for people who have never been out of the US.

After checking on flight prices, though, it looks like going to Paris would be even less practical than I thought. Cheap flights from the US to Paris are hard to find right now. From Indianapolis, where we would go from, the cheapest I could find was almost $1000 round trip. It is around $800, even from JFK which has more flights to Europe than any other airport in the US.

Again, my suggestion of Paris was not serious, at least not for any time soon.

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Kit,

you said that your trip was in 1999 but when in 99 during the tourist season or not? The reason I am asking is because non tourist season it wasn't a fun day trip let alone 5 or 6 days there.

But ya keep it at Disney they are like the only place actually willing and able to support our size of event.

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::evil grin::

u gotta admit... paris would be kinda cool a little pricey but never less cool

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It's also home to Galaxyland, an indoor amusement park ;)

In Galaxyland, you'll find Mindbender, a custom tri-looping coaster from Anton Schwarzkopf that is the second most powerful coaster on Earth. :)

There is this cool mall in NC (right by UNC, and my uncle's house) its called The Streets at South Point . ITS HUGE! Its indoors and outdoors. There is so much to do and it would be easy to containe people. I think we should have it there.

Aren't they supposed to be able to contain people in prisons, too?

I wonder how well that works...

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My trip was in late March/early April, between our last regional and the championships. I went with a group which was nominally a school French Club group, but there were more adults than students. We took a lot of side trips to places like Versailles, Giverny, and Chartres, but stayed in Paris and used the subway to get around within the city.

Teams have already done demos at the Paris air show...who knows :-p

Thats what a mall is...a retail prison...and the employees are the guards (I know...i am a retail prison guard)...

Plus if the championship was there I wouldnt want to spend my free time at a mall the whole time...

Oh no! Brandon might have to change the discription of the Championship forum!!

Yeah. I changed it anyway because I think I used bad grammar.

I hate grammer.