Yay! Epic, I'm excited to meet you.

Whee! Me too! This event will increase the number of 'ffistae I have met in person by three brazilian percent!

Aimee, early tour sounds good to me too. However, being the flake that I am, I'd love to insert myself into your "group." I could mail a check if PayPal fees are an ish. Or, alternatively, you could send me obnoxious emails until I get off my duff and take care of it myself. Whichev'.

Comes of not drinking.

That's what I figured. :)

Let's see if I can arrange open, start to finish, with Lilibeth. Unless I'm missing something, that seems like the most stress-free option.

I completely agree.

Am late, late, late with the comments, but the Alcatraz night tour is FANTASTIC!!! We did that a few years ago for K-Bug's birthday. When you hit the mid-point of the recorded tour, you can sign up for extra tours that are not typically available - such as going through the medical wing and seeing where the Birdman of Alcatraz actually spent most of his time and other such wonderous things. You have to jump on these extras as there are limited spots.

Walking out of the jailhouse and wandering back down the hill to the boat in the dark is an awesome experience. I still shiver when I think about it. It is so beautiful and then you think of WHY these folks had this view and it is so creepy.

I, unfortunately, will not be able to join y'all as it is K-Bug's prom night and I'll still be helping her get gorgeous and then snapping tons of pictures.

Aimee - K-Bug will be happy to babysit Em Saturday night. She had been tentative about committing before, but now that she knows it will not conflict with her social life (ahhh, the teen years), she is cool.

YAY!!! Tell her I will ply her with alcohol pizza and goodies if she wishes.

I think the chance to mock her mother will be a good part of the incentive.

spazzes into thread doing Snoopy dance

I'll be at the F2F! I have tickets to America! Wheee!!!

spins out of thread, still doing Snoopy dance, to find a hotel room

WoooooooooooHoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Yay! Are you coming alone or do we get to see the DH and Mal, too?

yay, Raq. I had thought that you weren't going to be able to make it!!!

I thought I wasn't either! But the admin section at the embassy helped me find a bureaucratic loophole, and my FiL offered to pay for the ticket in case the loophole doesn't work.

His price is that I have to leave Mal with him over the weekend, so it will be just me. Sorry - I know that's not nearly as exciting (although I'm kind of looking forward to a baby-free weekend...and the relief on Grandpa's face when he hands Mal back...).

DH has to go to Pennsylvania for the master's program he's in, and that will be his whole trip. We, as usual, are not managing to vacation together. And let me say that he is plenty jealous; he's a Bay Area native and was hoping to get to visit his City.