F2F is usually the weekend of my sister's birthday. While it is not a major facto in decideing if I will go , it has alwasy been ( when not on the west coast) , and well, it is J's birthday so that is a good reason to stic around too.

I'm not sure how strong our opinion is. so far,we have only gon e to the west coast F2F . if we go east we have to think about family as well. It is hard to go east without seeing a bunch of them. We'd have to sneak in and out.

amyth, who took all the shoe pictures this year.

Whoops! My bad. It was your shoes I was remembering, in particular. As soon as I saw the pic I said, "That's Kate P!" So, that's what stuck in my brain when I associate shoes with pictures. I didn't mean to dis amyth, honestly!

x-post from Beep Me:

Northeastistas...I will be in CT from June 20th-28th. I have pretty intense family obligations but can probably sneak away for a day sometime in that window--probably towards the end of that week. Of course I have forces pulling me in two directions...New York and Boston. What to do! Any way we could meet somewhere in the middle?

We could do a thing at my mom's house in CT (which is right next to the house you're used to coming to but will sadly no longer be mine), or I could travel to one place or the other...suggestions?

Kristin,

On an unrelated note,
Do you still have that discussion site for teachers? Someone I know will be a first-year English teacher next year (I think for 11th and 12th grade) and I'm sure she could use all the advice and support possible.

On a related note,
I hope to see you when you're out here!

MW, I do, though it's not very active. She's welcome to join, though. It's an lj community called teacher_oasis.

Hope to see you too. Really not sure how I'm going to juggle this, though.

So Cal peeps, how far is Huntington Beach from folks? Looks like that is where we will be the second weekend of July.

So Cal peeps, how far is Huntington Beach from folks? Looks like that is where we will be the second weekend of July.

Huntington is in the OC. Not that far from LA proper.

Kristin, I want to see you for sure! I've got a friend visiting the weekend of the 24th (how does all the free time fill up so fast??), but I'd be available on the 26th and 27th for sure, and probably the evening of the 25th as well. As for halfway between Boston and New York... how about Northampton! (I could travel to Boston to see folks without difficulty, and New York would probably be doable too, but any chance to lure people to my lovely city...)

Weighing in on the date discussion -- if we do the 3rd week in May again, i won't be there, as it will be the birthday weekend of the big 3-5.

Pretty pics, Kristin!

I'm pretty much echoing what flea said about NC. Our area is v. car oriented. The new hotel on Franklin St. will be open by then, but I suspect it will be out of our price range, though given that they're calling it a "premiere luxury boutique hotel."

Our area has a lot of cool stuff, it's just scattered. Mass transit is laughable, and mass transit on the weekend is damn near nonexistent.

eta if we were to do it here, it would have to be post graduation, which as pointed out is around Mother's Day. The town clears out nicely during the summer, but it is hot.