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MEALS

Please understand that if you attend all the sessions at Catholic University there will not be enough time to go back to the conference hotel (the Hilton Rockville) for lunch or dinner or for any other reason during the day. When you leave the hotel in the morning, you will not see it again until you return at night. So dress for the entire day and the banquets and play productions at night. Buses will be chartered to return you to the Hilton Rockville after the plays.

BREAKFAST

Given that it takes at least an hour to go by Metro from your hotel door to Pryzbyla Center on the CUA campus, it’s recommended that you either have breakfast early enough at the Hilton Rockville (in your room or in their restaurant at your own expense) or get to the Pryzbyla Center early enough to have breakfast there, either the continental breakfast provided for the conference free of charge or a fuller breakfast that you purchase at the Food Court on the second floor or the Student’s Restaurant and Starbucks on the third floor, all of which open at 8:00 am.

LUNCH

Although the Food Court (yellow area in the Pryzbyla Map) on the second floor of the Pryzbyla Center will be available to conference registrants on Friday, as well as, on the third floor, the Student Restaurant (yellow area) and a Starbucks, only the Starbucks and the Student Restaurant will be open on Saturday.

DINNER

It’s possible that the opening reception on Thursday night, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, at the Irish Embassy on Massachusetts Ave NW (a walk of a couple of blocks northwest of the Dupont Circle Metro Station) will provide enough hors d’oeuvres (snack food) that you won’t need to go out for additional food after, but we can’t guarantee that. There are lots of restaurants around Dupont Circle if you need further replenishment, and if you return to the hotel early enough, you can get food service at the bar. On Friday you will be bused from the Pryzbyla Center to Clyde’s of Gallery Place for a buffet banquet, prior to the Shaw play at the Washington Stage Guild Theater, and on Saturday you will have a buffet banquet in the Pryzbyla Center prior to the Shaw play at the Hartke Theater just a short walk northwest on the CUA campus. The opening reception and the two buffet banquets are included in the registration fee, but you are on your own for any additional food and drink you may need.