Cleveland Zoo Meet

Hey all! We will be meeting at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo on November 17th at 11am. The group will most likely head into the Zoo between 11:30 to noon and stay until it closes, which is at 5pm. Zoo admission is $8.25 and parking is free.

After we are done at the Zoo we will be heading to Winking Lizard Tavern in Lakewood, OH for dinner.

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Cleveland Meet + Darkly Cute's Birthday Party Plans

Friendship Never Ends by Amenoo

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a special exhibit on Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids. Admission is a mere ten dollars. We will be there starting at noon. It's a big place, so we will likely be spending a few hours there. Afterward, we can wander out to Wade Park right outside. In the event of torrential downpour (after all, it is springtime in Ohio) we can seek refuge across the park in the Cleveland Museum of Art. At 5:00 when the museums close, we'll head about a half mile east to Rascal House for dinner, and see what other damage we can do around town. For those who don't want to drop the $10 for the museum, you're certainly welcome to say hi anyway, hang out at the park, and come eat dinner with us.

After dinner, we'll head to a hotel, hook up the pony projector, and stay up much later than reasonable. You're welcome, neigh, encouraged to stay even if you're from the local area: we tend to do plenty more besides sleeping. Since this meetup also serves as a birthday party for Darkly Cute, there will be cake. We also will dedicate a bit of time to announcements and discussion for some interesting events we have planned for the future.

On Sunday, we'll head out to the Parmatown Mall, stopping at Toys"R"Us, Target, Walmart, and McDonalds (for the ponies, not the food!), and then go somewhere to eat lunch. Time and weather permitting, we might go chill at a park for the afternoon.

In the interest of helping prevent people from getting completely lost like at the last meet, we will be passing around maps and directions highlighting the various interesting places around the city that we might visit.

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Where fillies come from

Present Perfect's reading (and explanation!) of The Zebra Manuscript, from the Cleveland meetup last August. As it turns out, there was an actual storyline, and it kind of made sense. Also, qwimp.

Meetup plans

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We have been sort of slacking in keeping the blog updated with the meetups we've been talking about, so have four five at once. We'll be posting more details about all of these as their times approach; this is just some preliminary information.

August meetup summary

It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining and the birds singing from the top of the sky as varying bands of wannabe ponies migrated their way towards a shimmering mirage upon a glistening field of dihydrogen monoxide. The temperature was perfect, the air pure, the very fiber of reality itself vibrating with infinite potential. It was in this setting, a very odd setting indeed for a state known for its general depressing character and large quantities of rust, that the Cleveland meetup of the Ohio Bronies group took place.

Cleveland: Ride-sharing and stuff

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For those in the Columbus area with no way to get to the meetup, you're in luck, because partycrash on RDN has plenty of room. There are probably others who don't have transportation, or who have more seats in their car than they know what to do with, so if you're either willing to offer a ride, or are looking for one, post a comment here! (Remember that we have events planned for both Saturday and Sunday, so if you can only attend for one day, please mention that.)

We also have heard from the Pegasus ponies that we should have some great weather next weekend, so you probably won't need those galoshes. Hopefully they'll stick to their schedule. They really cut it close last time, and we got a doozy of a downpour the night after the meetup.

Cleveland meetup!

We're organizing a meetup in Cleveland at Edgewater Park on August 27. We will be meeting at about 2:00 PM by the big metal thing. (It's art!) There will be swimming, food, ponies, games, and ponies! We'll be grilling out for dinner, and serving Pinkie Pie's trademark hot sauce cupcakes for dessert.

An artists' table will be set up, so if you have stuff to sell or just to show off, bring it! PinFilly will have the metal pony pins for sale for those interested. At some point, we'll get a group together to go pony-buying. At the last meetup, The New Gray Mare bought more than $70 of pony socks from Target, and we cleaned the shelves at Toys'R'Us, leaving just a handful of talking Pinklestias and sparkling balloons in our wake. (If you're too shy to go buy ponies on your own, this is for you. Carrying around a bunch of ponies in a big group is a lot of fun.)

Once it gets dark, we'll be migrating to a hotel for the night to sleep watch life-sized ponies projected onto a wall for several hours, and will continue ponying on the 28th. (Yes, pony is a verb!) Though we haven't quite decided what exactly we'll be doing, tentative plans include a tour of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or Cleveland Museum of Art, watching a movie, or maybe just going to the mall and hanging out.

Here's the Facebook event page if you're into that.