And the venue is....

After looking over the responses, and discussion with Admin, it looks like the big OHbaby! Meet Up is going to be in...

Wellington!

There was a lot of demand for Auckland, but also a lot who wouldn't be able to do Auckland, and also a lot of demand for Palmy, but Palmy can be a bugger to get to for those who have to fly. Our reasons for choosing Wellington are:

*It's roughly half way which makes it fair for everyone
*There's plenty to do in Wellington (Te Papa etc.)
*It's easily accessible by car, train, plane, or ferry (for the S.I. Mums)
*A lot of the Mums who said they couldn't do Auckland, said they could do Wellington

And the date is 20-22 Oct 2007 )Labour Weekend, which give us just under 8 mths to plan, save, book accomodation etc.

As an idea, when I went to a Huggies meet up last May on the Gold Coast we all tried to arrange accomodation in a similar area so it was easy to catch up.

Atm Admin and I are working on putting together something for the Mums on the Saturday night. What you do the rest of the time is up to you guys! Although someone mentioned having a big kids party given how many birthdays there are around that time of year (Nikki's Hannah, Zaara, Aimee's Hannah (?) all the Oct 2006 bubs and probably plenty more that I can't think of off hand) so thats an idea.

We (Admin) are also looking at getting local media involved so we might all get our 5 mins of fame! (Our Huggies meet even made the TV news!)

So what thinks you all?

I'm happy. Just another question - the thing on Saturday night with that just be mum's and children or the whole family???

i think aswell as a "something" on the sat night it would be cool to have a few other things organised, like maybe a visit to the zoo or te-papa as a group (or a few smaller groups if there are a few going) the options are endless! it would be sooooooooo much fun. argh! oohohooooh exciting.

so,who is cheif babysitter while mums r out???

Sounds good to me I hope I can make it.

That sounds fantastic Emma - I live in Wellington so easy for me to make it just hope that we don't plan to go away for that weekend. It's Ollie's 1st birthday on the 23rd.

Xandersmum wrote: so,who is cheif babysitter while mums r out???

The Dads! When we went to the GC Willie didn't come (obviously) so Maya stayed with one of the other Dads and their kiddies (we already knew them well).

i hv a DH but what if there are some single mums coming - who r they going to get to babysit?

Hope i can make it now - will try my hardest.

Unless of course I find a babysitter here in Auckland and come down all by myself, that sounds like fun!

That will be good without the kiddies and DH. He will be coming down with me (we will be staying at his cousins place) but i'll break the news to him that he will be having the kids that night.