photo(shop?) credit - Jeff W - Team Voice
the weather looks promising, and actual packing (versus the pre-packing, planning stage) has begun! yes, folks, toonfest awaits!
yes indeedy, it will be a fest indeed! best part is, i will be joining several friends and sure to be new friends for that marceline activities! So far, the itinerary looks like this:
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friday arrive Kansas City ~ 1pm. rent car. drive to
marceline (this will take one or two years depending on which map you look at)
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meet fellow festers at the lovely brookville best western Hotel (i capitalize because trace keeps telling me its a motel).. ah well, you know what they say – hotel, motel, holiday inn?….. find wayne, trace and doug (i am thinking this is NOT going to be difficult)
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drive to heathers (yes, this means back towards KC, whatcha gonna do?) for a fabulous cookout!!! also meeting up with andie in atl aka disnyfan and heathers family
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saturday 8am – toonfest crew shall breakfast with another andy and his film crew. the film crew is completing documentary filming this weekend for a film about all things marceline. it is most fortuitous that i know people who know people that makes movies because we can just follow them around and see whats happening! also, with any luck,
jeff w maybe in town and joining us before the festivities truly begin!
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after breakfast, we shall gather in marceline. there are many activities throughout the day… hopefully weather will permit everything to come off without a hitch! some of the highlights will include:
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10am parade
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guided tours of the walt disney museum
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visiting the dreaming tree and walts barn
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additionally, i hope to see the theater there in town and perhaps the location of
laugh-o-gram studios! there are cartoonist personalities appearing and talking, as well as apparently a pie eating contest that some dudes i know are threatening to enter… mostly i just want to see the place, take lots of pictures and eat fair food!
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saturday night – well, there may be goings on in marceline, so we are leaving that flexible, but i am going to bring the
recipe for kungaloosh along, in case anyone wants to join me in a toast at “conversations”, the bar and grill that now resides at this location————->
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i return home sunday, but i will still have the morning to traipse around town and get lots of pictures!!!!
have you ever been to marceline? or toonfest? if you live remotely near there, you’ll find friends if you come on down!
