*sigh* So........pretty much. We will all be together at around 4ish after everyone finds the place? :) lol

I will do just that, Minus the Poncho ....

Me and my group + Matt and his Friend (too bad Matt your coming early with me I dont care what you say haha) will be there early and set up shop, Ill try to bring some sh!t to put at the entrance so all of you non map reading people can be like "OH THERE IT IS" ... and then get lost somehow in the parking lot.

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lol. i can read a map, but having some sort of land mark is always helpful when you have never been to your destination. thanks for doing that.

haha, you can wear a reflector vest with wands and wave them at people. Light some of those fire thingies and keep them on the ground.

lol i'm so excited. This is going to be funny hahaha.

You laugh as though I AM Going to wear a poncho... not happening

I will get some bright orange poster board though and somehow get it to stay by the entrance, think that will be sign enough for everyone?

big orange sign yeah i think that should be good. thanks again

I'm color blind..............

no i prefer my big orange signs to be living....

Hey Jon.........will you sing the badger badger badger song with your poncho, bright orange poster board, and wands in front of Busse?!?! lol lol MAN I'm freakin' bored at work.

Thats exactly what I don't want to happen.

Does Busse Wood's have a website or something?

why would we need a website!? this isnt ****ing rocket science man. Just chill, drive, enjoy the scenery, it sounds like itll be right as u enter the park.

hard to do all of that when you dont know exactly where your going. you cant mapquest where the meet is so he is just trying to find anther way to get there.

i dont know if they have a website, but i will see what i can do for ya.

Ok, I google image searched busse woods maps, we definitely need someone to point us in the area of this place we are going. I found a few maps, but I don't think they are showing me all the roads through the forest preserve. Someone who knows the place, please do the image search, find one, put a red circle around the approximity we are meeting, and post it back up so I can put it on the first post. Thanks. I just want this to avoid confusion. I agree. I don't want everyone lost

BTW. Can we make this meeting near the bathrooms too? lol

Also, we don't have to pay to get into this park do we!?

isnt there only the one entrance on the higgins side?

okay here is the map... look to the left.. that is I290, see where you exit at Higgins, (the big road cutting through the middle of the picture) there you turn right off the exit ramp onto Higgins, the VERY FIRST right you can make is the entrance, the first brown line you see off higgins into the forest preserve, not even 1/4 of a mile once you turn right off the ramp. I said this many times but I think people keep forgetting. Those that were there last year know this already.

Once everyone meets up then you can probably cruise and find another area but this is the best meet up spot that we all (locals) know of for Busse!!!

If someone is better at Paint or PS they can make the lines showing you exiting off 290 onto the ramp and turning right into Busse if they want..

http://www.fpdcc.com/downloads/busse_woods_south_pg.pdf

ok, I'm not sorting through 15 pages of banter for an answer.

Food - are you going somewhere? bringing your own? someone buying and grilling (have people donate $$ to the cause)?

the way i see it is every man for themselves for food. and if you want to bring sonething thats fine to

this has turned into the most confuzzled thread ever.

Just spray paint a lower intake manifold gasket lime green or orance and hang it on a tree next to the entrance. then you will know it's the grand am meet.

I am bored at work so yeah I took the map from the first page and made a nice little line from 290 onto Higgins turning into the park, and the "X" is the exact spot we met last year and there was tons of parking!!! It's gay I made it with paint but hell I am trying to help you all out. Some one is gonna get lost no matter what you do!

denise, revised that and make a different color line for the people coming the other way. or you dont have to. lol

The first post is entirely updated (as far as I am aware it is) There is no confusion here at all I don't think.

Who all is meeting at the hotel and when? I will put that also in the first post so incase if people just want to meet there.

the indiana crew will be at the hotel roughly at 1pm, long before michigan people get in. so i can sit down and make sure the hotel didnt screw anything up.

so that should maybe be a 20minute stop im thinking, after that we are heading to busse.

I'll show up whenever, doesn't bother me. I just know that I'm NOT getting lost if I'm with you... lol


I'll stand at the enterance with a large pink thing... dunno what yet, but it'll be obvious.

g'damnit, do I have to go buy one of those huge floating in the air animals for you to track the entrance down?

"Hey, there's that huge elephant, the entrance is this way." lol

Hey, good idea Jim. You are in charge of that :) Get on it. lol

hey man its better then 1/2 the people going getting lost, and waisting the day. its better we are all on the same page now, then trying to get everyone there, who is confussed, on sat.

I know, I am just laughing because it is really easier to get to then some of you think (in state or not). It's literally less then 100 yrds away from the highway. Once you get off the higgins exit, you are roughly 2 min away from the site. It's the first turn into the forest preserve.

p.s. is everyone getting those "Hi, my name is Jim a.k.a. UNCTYPE-S" nametags? I'm gonna wear mine to benny.

So if someone wants to meet at the hotel, be there between 1 and 1:30pm to cruise to Busse with you guys.

Question now is, should I take the thing off of the first post about getting to Busse by 3, so you guys can swing over there and get a room? Or should I keep that, and any late comers can go then with you?

Yes/No?

Not a bad idea. lol I can steal an entire box full! I have them in the office for our ESL classes haha

I'm horrible with names. And there is no way in hell i'm going to know who most of you guys are by your cars. So....... lol Don't yell at me if i ask you who you are over, and over again.

Nice one jelly belly kelly. :)

well i was told to bring the hat, so you shouldnt have any problems for a little while, lol.

leave that bit up in the post, as i dont want people to figure they can show up late and the rooms will still be there, because after 6pm hits they wont be.

as for finding the place, lemme see if i can rent the goodyear blimp....

;) I'll bring the Hello My Name is tags for anyone who wants one :D hehe

Whoever is bringing the football, better not forget, because I wanna toss is around

Help, I am confused.

Holy Crap Allimighty! I WILL Get there early, and I will do me best to post about 5 orange poster boards that are blank (so that I dont get ticketed for illegal solicitation) aside from maybe an arrow pointing in a direction to the entrance, and I will be sure to park my Scion facing towards the entrance if possible. If you see a goofy short kid and a Scion, along with some other kids and a blue SE... you are at the right place.

I'll bring the yellow brick road. Just follow that.

I'll bring Toto

Sounds good dorothy. I'll bring the little munchkins (Jon and Matt) lol

o lord

you rang?