VCU Regional??

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by waialua359

thanks, we were planning to attend both. I like the bowling and movie idea also. Is it worth driving an hour or so south or west? Any sights to see?

Richmond is rich in History. There are many sites in the area related to the settling of Virginia to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Williamsburg is roughly an hour away. If you want to take a side trip, Thomas Jefferson's University of Virginia and Monticello are 1.5 hours away and Washington D.C. is 2 hours away.

[waialua359]

thank you.
By the way, that pink hospital in hawaii is tripler hospital near the airport and I think you meant "pidgin." Howzit!!

[Priyadarshy]

Who all is submitting their Chairman's Award at VCU this year. 612 had a lot of fun submitting at our home regional last year, from what I hear it may be another exciting Chairman's competition this year!

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by waialua359

Since this is somewhat Dave Lavery's regional, we decided to attend. We did week 1 last year and almost came, but decided instead to go to NJ.

Wow, how nice of Dave to sponsor a regional out of his back pocket!

*whispers into ear*

Oh what, he doesn't? Oh... um, then how is this Dave's regional then? Isn't this... oh... Virginia's regional? Or something like that?

[jviars]

Team 388 submitted there Chairman's Award earlier this week. Our PR Team sure had a fun time writing it, too.

[mrmummert]

if you had some warmer weather (aka summer) you'd probably like to go to Kings Dominion....about 30 mins away north-east on I-95

[waialua359]

Originally Posted by mrmummert

if you had some warmer weather (aka summer) you'd probably like to go to Kings Dominion....about 30 mins away north-east on I-95

What's that? Guess I'll look it up.
As for the Dave's regional comment, just was kidding.

[burkey_turkey]

Speaking of rich in history, depending on the weather it might be fun to take a walk around the canal walk and belle/browns isle and stuff. There are placks and little monuments to history and the civil war, and one of those islands used to be an old prison/iron works/hydroelectric power plant and structures form all of those are still standing. Walking around in an 80 year old hydroelectric dam is pretty fun.

[waialua359]

LOL! I looked up King's Dominion with my students, and they got hella excited. Then as I was browsing the site and checked the calendar dates, they are closed til March.
Sorry, but if you saw the disappointed looks on our student's faces, you just gotta laugh. Never seen a high become so low so fast.
I like outlet malls and eateries, they just want the theme parks.

[mrmummert]

Hi...thats why i mentioned warmer weather....soory for the kids...still there are lots of things to do in Richmond.

[sporno]

Originally Posted by waialua359

We met one of your team members, David Sporno, who talks to us a lot via PM. We have an aloha shirt just for him, via his request.

you guys are awesome!


I cant belive that the NASA /VCU regional ( the best regional ever) is finally this weekend!

Its gonna be good , vcu is stacked this year with alot of really good teams and theres a fair share of shooters and speed bots that i know of.

best of luck to everyone , and I cant wait to see everyone

[gam3fr3ak1]

435 will be there =D

i cant wait!!!

[sporno]

dude , a guy that was on yalls team during stack attack is now one of our mentors

[kjohnson]

Originally Posted by waialua359

thanks, we were planning to attend both. I like the bowling and movie idea also. Is it worth driving an hour or so south or west? Any sights to see?

Drive a hour south and you could end up in Southampton County (place of Nat Turner's slave rebellion) or Franklin (some civil war history, but not too much else) and visit Team 1610. Other than Franklin, theres not much to do if you head south of Richmond, but you could head southeast to the seven cities AKA Hampton Roads (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Suffolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Portsmouth) If you want to head down there, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Roads It has all the good Hampton Roads history, and even a list of attractions.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by waialua359

LOL! I looked up King's Dominion with my students, and they got hella excited. Then as I was browsing the site and checked the calendar dates, they are closed til March.
Sorry, but if you saw the disappointed looks on our student's faces, you just gotta laugh. Never seen a high become so low so fast.
I like outlet malls and eateries, they just want the theme parks.

Busch Gardends > Kings Dominion any day of the week

Though yeah it's generally not open till later on in the spring time.