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(...) Great news and perfect dates! I'll try to catch a flight either wednesday night or thursday and back exactly a week later. As I'm not familiair with Washington DC, what touristic attractions are in the area that are worth visiting? And any (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) The Smithonian Institude ((URL) come an extra day or two early just to see it. I am not kidding about the extra time. If you like science/natural history type museums you'll think you died and when to heaven. Its about 15 mins by subway from (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) The Air and Space Museum is a marvelous place to visit too. There are a ton of museums and monuments within walking(1) distance of the Mall, right from the metro. As for hotels, there's really no such thing as a "cheap" hotel in the Arlington (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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"Adrian Drake" <adrian@brickfrenzy.com> wrote in message news:Hvv3Co.24F3@lugnet.com... [ ... snipped ... ] (...) ton of (...) the (...) [ ... snipped ...] The new extenstion to the Air and Space Museum is now open as well. (URL) extenstion is out (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Besides all the other stuff, plenty of time should be set aside to come visit me at the Potomac Mills LEGO Outlet. We've got it up on the calender here, and we're looking forward to packing the store full of AFOL's. Brian Gefrich Supervisor (...) (21 years ago, 8-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) visit me (...) and (...) Oh, now you did it. Just picture a MOB of unruly bargain shopping AFOL's tromping all over every nook and cranny and messing up EVERY shelf! It'll take 3 days to straighten out the mess! Count me in on the fun! (the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) That sounds about right. That has been, after all, the MO for every one of the Lego Outlet trips that I've been a part of at the last 3 Brickfests I've been to :) Adrian (21 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Sounds great! Although I'll most likely try to stop by earlier (thursday if possible) so I won't just find empty shelves :D This should be loads of fun, specially since we don't have any serious LEGO discounts here in Europe and now with the (...) (21 years ago, 9-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) That's not really a problem. Last year, the "Brickfest Sale" was Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. While most people where there when the store opened on Friday, as could be seen by the VERY small number of people at Brickfest, I went over Friday (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Brickfest 2003, I managed to get there on Thursday night...and there were a couple items that were of very short supply...so I picked an item up that was not likely going to make the "friday rush". Holding the sale over 3 days was cool. That (...) (21 years ago, 12-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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(...) Brian, You wouldn't be new to the store, would you? You need to check out past pics of Brickfest--or ask Dan and Rose about past experiences.. P.S. I usually help bag during the Brickfest store invasion... -Scott Lyttle (LEGO Outlet Discover (...) (21 years ago, 14-Apr-04, to lugnet.events.brickfest)
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