Originally Posted by mbepic
Ann, I was not being critical of you.........I know you must have your plate full and Woodward weekend should not be the highest priority in your life.
I just raised this suggestion publicly because the alternate 'large group at one restaurant' appears to not be too easy to resolve. We appreciate what you have done for the Saturday night.
If you locals can come up with a suitable number of small 'informal' eateries that we could use for smaller groups, (we would need written directions for each of the eateries, directing each small group from a central point at the end of the Woodward Avenue drive. I would certainly be willing to help plan the process for getting us into small groups Hopefully meeting at the Marriot Hotel at a predetermined time should not be an obstacle for us getting organized into those smaller groups.
What do all of you, who are arriving on the Friday (by late afternoon), think of this suggestion??? You don't have to stay at the Marriott, just be there to organize into small groups for dinner get togethers later.
It would be great to keep the group together, but the difficulty of getting a place to reserve 40+ seats is a problem. So I think this idea is a good alternative.
We won't need directions to each of these other establishment. So many of us have GPS's in our cars that all we would need is an address. That may make this task a little simpler.