<p>Am I on vacation that day??? I’m game for most weekends. I may have to take my daughter to an audition sometime this winter on a weekend…but she has NOT figured out when she should be doing this!! Let’s do it sometime. I know there are others in the Boston area (I’m from CT, but my son is at BU) who might want to join us. There is NO shortage of good meeting places in Boston!!!</p>
<p>I just discovered this thread! Wow, I am jealous of you guys! It sounds like it was a blast. Like you already knew one another and all. I have met many people in person from CC now and it is fun. Usually it is not a whole group at once so that sounds like a Par-tay! Well, I can only imagine from afar. I have also been embarrassed when meeting folks to forget to bring pictures of the kiddos…but sometimes I remember. </p>
<p>Glad you guys got this together and thanks for sharing with the rest of us. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
<p>jmmom would horn in on the Boston coffee klatch, too, if she were invited. Bicoastal! I could do a Comparative Analysis. :D</p>
<p>((Serious comment)) Actually, jmmom, that would make a VERY interesting study: East-coast parents of college-bound students vs West-coast parents of college-bound students. Is one more like than the other to encourage going out-of-state? going to the opposite coast? to be more prestige-oriented?</p>
<p>From what I’ve found in my several years on CC, I’ve been amazed at how SIMILAR we all are. Now whether that’s because the people on CC are self-selective or not, I don’t know.</p>
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I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. I hope you’ll keep me posted on a Boston get together!</p>
<p>You bet, thumper! Santa Clara is one of the best colleges in the Bay Area, and I’ll keep my fingers crossed for your D to get in. Stay tuned for upcoming sequels to Klatch I. :)</p>
<p>Alum – Kyle, my passenger pigeon, is taking the day off. Otherwise, I’d send you a terrifying Halloween iMovie. 
PM? Email? Lemme know. ~Sluggeroo</p>
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You mean, “sjmom” does not stand for San Jose mom?!?</p>
<p>Sorry, no! Although I was born and raised in California, I now live near Boston. And I’m sorry about this screen name – I finally decided to sign up on a day when any creativity was sadly lacking. Of course, now I can come up with many more clever ideas, but that’s what I’m stuck with.</p>
<p>sjmom - I experienced the same cleverness deficit when registering :(. Apparently, I thought at the time I was just going to use the site for a bit of specific information. :rolleyes: Who cared what my username was? Now I sit in perpetual envy of curmudgeon, ellenemope, Alumother, digmedia, bandit…</p>
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Of course you’re invited!! :)</p>
<p>Me, too; me, too??? I’m nowhere near Boston (DC is a nine-hour drive), but I have a long-standing promise to keep to pop up there to see some of “my” kids at Boston colleges…and to do a spot of business…so can I come to the CC party in Boston, too? Pretty please??? W/sugar on top? (I won’t even insist on a 20-year-old pic; I figure once past age 50 a bit (or a lot) of extra weight is a badge of honor, not to mention responsible for a substantial savings on heavy winter clothing!)</p>
<p>Well I guess we SHOULD plan a New England get together. My only concern about winter is the potential for crummy weather. But if we start thinking now maybe we will get our acts together by spring!!</p>
<p>Sluggbugg - killer movie. Clearly too much fun was had.</p>
<p>Spring? This has potential… The Junior From H*** will be making his presumed East Coast Tour of potential colleges with me the first week of April and I might even be somewhere in the vicinity of Boston… hint hint.</p>
<p>I might be there too the middle of March with the HS junior and would love to be included. (Mootmom, someday we will have to find a way to be in the same place at the same time.) </p>
<p>I think I’m going to send him to visit his brother who will be responsible for taking (or sending) him to visit colleges near Boston. Then I’ll swoop in later in the week to take him further afield.</p>
<p>If doing New England in the middle of March, I would love to join in! (Over30, we could carpool. 
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<p>Sounds like fun!</p>
<p>Soooooo sorry I missed the Great Event. We were in NYC, visiting the kid. Shucks.</p>
<p>Oh, let’s do it again!!! I’ve located my BIG HUMONGOUS BOOK OF KIDS PICS to bring to the next gathering, to make up for forgetting to bring pics to this last one.</p>
<p>East coasters–Keep us posted on the Boston event too. My D and I have been contemplating a trip to Boston in the spring too, so, hmmm, there is a slight chance I could maybe come to something in Boston too around that time. That trip is still in the daydreaming stage, though, we’ll have to wait a bit longer before we know if a spring trip is feasible.</p>