Sorry, I tried to search for DC Dopers, but it won’t search D.C. 
I’m going to be in VA next week about 1 hour from DC- are there any Doper events going on? Could there be? Should there be?
I am not even sure who the DC Dopers are. Can anyone at least link me to a fest thread so I can mail some folks? I’d love to drive up after work (it’s a business trip) for supper or something.
We’re called ‘MADs’ try that.
I don’t know of anything planned for next weekend but maybe we could throw something together in a hurry. Where are you going to be?
I am in DC when I am not stuck in traffic on the Virginia highways:rolleyes:
Having recently become a ‘doper’, I have never been to a dope fest but would love to welcome you to the area. Where are you going to be in the area? And is that hour away based on mileage or actual time as given by someone ‘in the know’? In the DC area 60 miles does not equal 1 hour driving time.:rolleyes:
This a roll call?
Zette, if I remember right, you’re going to be in Fredricksburg. You’ll be about 30-45 minutes south of me. I’d love to cook up a Fest for you. What are your dates, and which night is best?
I’m free.
“MADs” = “Mid-Atlantic Dopers”
I’m at my summer home in Texas right now. Sorry.
Details, we want details!
Can’t guarantee anything right now, but I’d certainly try to make it, where/whenever this get-together happens.
For the first time you can count Miabella (my wife) and I in. It’s about time I meet a real live doper.
Anita and all- I’ll be in Fredericksburg from this Sunday through Friday- I have no plans for any late afternoon/evening. I was thinking a dinner or something- no big whoop. It would be a shame to be so close to DC and not get to hook up!
Thoughts? Someplace easy for me to find? Times? Etc?
WHEEEEEEEEEE!
I’ve been a MAD lurker for far too long…I’d love to come out and meet you all!
Taz
Let’s make it easy on Zette and meet at Springfield Mall. It’ll be a straight shot up Rt 95 for her and convenient for most MADS, and even has a Metro station close by! The mall has the standard chains: Bennigans, Ruby Tuesday, and The American Cafe. I’m sure there are other options in the area, also.
Zette, does your availability include Friday evening? We have an occasional Friday meeting of the Alcohol and Appetizers Appreciation Society (now called MADinner, I think) and we haven’t managed a meeting in a while.
I suggest Friday, July 11th, but I’m free most any evening next week. So who’s up for it, and when?
Springfield Mall would be good, and it’ll be much easier for Zette to drive north to Springfield than it would for us to drive south to Fredericksburg, on a weekday evening.
My only request is: not TGI Friday’s. Had a bad encounter with that particular one, fairly recently.
You slut. I’m expensive.
Whoops, forgot to answer the OP… Uh, what was it again?
Oh, yes. There were three.
I dunno, I dunno, I dunno.
Whee! That was fun AND easy! Just like me!
I’m in. Springfield Mall. Not TGIF’s. Sometime next week. Need a bit more info!
Friday night I’ll already be gone, but I can do the Springfield Mall any night y’all agree upon. I’ll be checking back here (my Internet access will be spotty after tomorrow morning) to see the day/time.
WOOO!!! FEST!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
No one has said that any particular day is bad, so I vote on Tuesday, July 8th, at 7pm at either Bennigans or The American Cafe. They are both visible from the parking lot, and can accommodate vegans.
These folks look like they are in for sure:
Zette
OpalCat
fruitbat and Miabella
Tazma
RTFirefly (and the Mrs?)
Aholibah
myself
So who else is in?
Don’t trust Zette – she has a history of getting people to throw Dopefests when she’ll be in town and then cancelling out! 
Soup, spending winters in Washington and summers in San Antonio sounds like a plan. I suppose you also take sauna when overheated and drink ice tea to warm up? 
I can do Tuesday or Friday.