The Doubletree is out of rooms with two beds. All the rooms available have just one king size bed. Since several people had requested to be moved to the Doubletree if we got more rooms it may be full by now. I am now in the process of getting our dates in Peoria for 2004 changed to very early in October to get some time between the NMC and the Illinois teen convention which meets in Springfield the week-end before Thanksgiving. We were looking at the possibility of the two meeting together in Peoria, but they are tied to Springfield through 2006 and there is no way the two could meet together in Springfield.
Every indicator points to the Tulsa convention being very, very large.
Doubletree is temporarily full except on Friday, but I am trying to get more rooms for Thursday and Saturday. Ramada Limited is full on Friday and Saturday. This is more rooms than we have ever had taken at this time of the year. The last time we were in Tulsa only 260 rooms had been taken by June 3 and the final count was right at 400. That is more than the final total when we were in Tulsa in 1997, and way ahead of last year.