Thread: April 24 and 25 2010 Portland Oregon Get together

I live on the Olympic Pennisula and I have a son who lives in Oregon City. The get together would be a good excuse to do both!!

Originally Posted by xmixahlx

i'm way the hell up in bellingham, wa - but if there is some excuse to be down in oregon i'm interested.

Originally Posted by Vnam68

I live on the Olympic Pennisula and I have a son who lives in Oregon City. The get together would be a good excuse to do both!!

I'll add you to the list of potentials First off I need to find some place to do a gathering at. I've got an idea or two but any suggestions would be helpful

As I said in the OP I am interested in attending. Full time stay at home dad so no guarantees, but I will see what I can swing.

So here's the question I hate to have to ask. How much are people willing to pitch in to help make this get together happen? I haven't even gotten to any of the hotels yet but most of the community centers and Mason lodges in the area require a $500+ deposit then generally $600 per day. I thought we could limit that part of the meet to one day and figure out something else for the other but even so I can't afford to pitch out $1100-$1700. Once again if anyone has any suggestions lemme know. I'd love to hear from someone other than just the voices in my head..

Thanx,
Michael

Here's what I've found out from the NW Davis, Old Town Pizza. This location was from a suggestion made by joshmpdx (see link for OTP info).

Old Town Pizza - Banquet / Catering

They have a banquet rm that seats 55people or a smaller rm above the kitchen that will seat 25. The 55p banquet rm has a $550 minimum spend on food etc and the 25p rm we'd have to do a min $220 spend for food (+18% grat). I was going to see about getting over this w.e. to check out what was avail and to hopefully talk to a person (face to face) about what we could get to suit our needs. All in all this would work out to cost anyone attending about $10+ each. I need to ask about if there are any time limitations but for a first time event it's looking like this is going to be the best bet. Questions? Comments? Suggestions?

That sounds like a much better idea with the 25 person room, I would bet if we expand larger than that they would have no problem accommodating us...

you are going to need definite RSVP's as to people coming so you can nail it down...

Mark me down, I am off work and the wife and I are coming can you get me an address of this place so i can google some hotels nearby or somebody suggest one..

So if we are having a meet I will be there...

The Downtown location is at 226 NW Davis, Portland 97209 It's in the "Pearl district" on the northern portion of the main drag in downtown so I know there's a butt load of decent places in the general vicinity. I don't know about anyone else but I don't really have any desire to hang out at a pizza parlour for 2days, not to mention this is the part where folks are going to have to pay out so I was thinking we might set up Sat at OTP and shoot for something else on Sun. Still trying to get ideas together. So much to do so little time to do it in. So we've got Glenn and I lets hear from whoever else is planning on this. I'll try to find out this w.e. about what type of deadline OTP will need for the reservation.

just found out i won't be able to do this... but perhaps seattle sometime???

Originally Posted by xmixahlx

just found out i won't be able to do this... but perhaps seattle sometime???

Sure. Scope out some of the other local members in the Seattle area and see if you can get a group together to work on a future meet. I'd do what I could to make it up.

Wish I could go, but I leave Seattle for Bristol Bay on April 16th. Have fun guys!