| Wedding | | Reception | | Lodging | | Directions | | Rental car | | Champaign and its weather | | Sunday brunch | | New Year's activities | The ceremony will take place at 3:00pm on Saturday, 30 December 2000 at Faith United Methodist Church in Champaign, Illinois. Faith United Methodist Church 1719 South Prospect Avenue Champaign, IL 61820 Following the ceremony and lots of hugs and handshaking, we'll adjourn to Stone Creek Golf Club for dinner and merriment. Stone Creek is located on the southeast edge of Urbana in an area that is new enough not to be included in Yahoo! or MapQuest maps. However, it is incredibly easy to drive there from the church. Refer to the directions listed below. Stone Creek Golf Club 2600 Stone Creek Boulevard Urbana, IL 61802 Need a place to stay while you're visiting Champaign? We've reserved rooms at several hotels in the area, so please call one of the following locations for arrangements. The rooms are being held through 30 November. If you have any problems, Lynne or Lynne's mom, Karen, will be happy to help you. Give them a call! (Lynne's number: 650.323.4470 ~ Karen Peck's number: 217.352.9536). Courtyard Marriott: 217.355.0411 Drury Inn: 217.367.9550 La Quinta Inn: 217.356.4000 Red Roof Inn: 800.733.7663 (Block code B170 000 493) Need a rental car while you're here? We haven't arranged anything with the local agencies, but we did want to list the local phone numbers in case you needed them. All three of these agencies are located at Willard Airport (CMI--the Champaign airport). Avis Rent A Car: 217.359.5441 Hertz Rent A Car: 217.359.5413 National Car Rental: 217.359.5259 Airport to hotels: Drive out Airport Road. At the first stoplight (US Route 45 which becomes Neil Street in Champaign), turn left/north. Drive roughly three miles through three lights. At the fourth light, turn left/west onto Windsor Road. Drive one mile. At Prospect Avenue, turn right/north. Drive for three miles and get better directions from the hotel staff... I-57 South to church: Exit onto I-74 East to Champaign. Exit right/south onto Prospect Avenue. Drive roughly three miles, going through several stop lights (the final light is Kirby Avenue). The church will be on your right. I-74 to church: Exit south onto Prospect Avenue. Drive roughly three miles, going through several stop lights (the final light is Kirby Avenue). The church will be on your right. Hotels to church: Get directions to Prospect Avenue. Drive south roughly three miles through several stoplights. The final light you drive through will be Kirby Avenue. The church will be on your right. Church to reception: Get on Prospect Avenue. Head south (that's a right turn out of the parking lot) through one stop sign until you reach a stoplight at Windsor Avenue. Turn left/east and drive east through three lights and two stop signs. Turn left/north onto Stone Creek Boulevard. Stone Creek Golf Course will be on the right side of the street. Anywhere to the Kovacs: I'm going to assume by now that you can find Prospect Avenue (the street the church is on). Continue south on Prospect past the church until you hit Windsor Avenue. Turn right/west onto Windsor Avenue (turning left was what we did yesterday to go to the reception). Continue through two stop signs, and then turn right onto Briar Hill. Their house will be on the right side of the street. Champaign-Urbana located in the eastern-central portion of Illinois. The town is close to the Illinois-Indiana border, and the landscape is pretty flat. Besides being Lynne's hometown (and where her parents still live), it's home to the University of Illinois (Lynne and Ron's alma mater), Parkland College, NCSA, great parks (like Allerton Park), and a lot of neat, neighborly folks. But here's what you're really after: what's the weather going to be like? Well, we can't really say because it's been different the last four winters Lynne's been home. We've had unseasonably warm (40-50 degrees), sunny and snowy (20-40 degrees), and cold, gray and ugly (0-20 degrees). [Ron would like to emphasize the cold-gray-ugly winter as something he remembers every day that he had to walk to class during the winter, but Lynne would like to point out that if he was co-oping in California, how many Illinois winters can he remember?] We're both hoping for sunny and snowy--the light, powdery kind that makes everything look pretty and doesn't affect travel, but we'll just have to wait and see... Basically bring your jacket and warm layers, and you can't go wrong. If you are staying for any of the activities on Sunday, bring a pair of jeans (or at least something comfortable and casual). Our dear friends, Tom and Sue Kovacs have graciously agreed to host a brunch on Sunday morning at their home. The bride and groom hope to make an appearance before 10:00am but we think most of you know that neither Ron nor Lynne are known for their early morning activities. Time: 9:30am-11:30am (and OF COURSE we'll be there!) Tom and Sue Kovacs 2318 Briar Hill Drive Champaign, IL 61822 Maybe you're stuck in Champaign for New Year's or maybe you decided you wanted to ring in the new year with the newly married couple. Well, we've got a few plans up our sleeve. And they all include food. Read on. Brunch: Well, of course we'll start the day with the brunch mentioned above. Have we mentioned Sue's cooking? There will be tons of food, so please come! Dinner: How about some Papa Del's pizza? (Only the best pizza on the planet, according to Lynne...and I think Ron agrees. Or at least he'll agree that it's the best pizza in Champaign-Urbana.) We'll choose the location and the time a little closer to the event... After dinner: We can hit the campus bars or head to Jillian's where they have a bar, pool tables, darts, and video games. No one knows how crowded it will be, but we can hang out and ring in the new year! For those under 21, we offer the Peck house as a bright and cheery alternative.