My brother has a habit of doing things and not telling anyone, so it's possible!

Everyone in my family does this. It's the one problem with being raised to be extremely independent.

I'm amused by how much Madison and Minneapolis are vying neck-and-neck. We may need to have a run-off.

Updated results:

Detroit, MI 13.5% 5
Houston, TX 10.8% 4
Madison, WI 37.8% 14
Minneapolis, MN 37.8% 14

37 total votes

We may need to have a run-off.

That might not be a bad idea, if they're within 5 (or so) points of each other.

I voted for Madison since I've never been (plus, House on the Rock!) but would be just as fine with Minneapolis. I'd prefer to visit Houston when it's less summery and Detroit when it's less murderiffic. But timing's probably going to be the big factor in my attendance as opposed to location.

Or just have the f2f in Tomah, WI (roughly the halfway point between Madison and Mpls).

Yep, timing is going to be crucial for me, too. I'm only free one weekend in May--the others are filled with graduation, class trips, etc. I'm hoping that we manage to have a mid-June F2F for my own selfish purposes (if it's in a cold locale--if somewhere like Houston, I'm hoping we end up late April). I didn't get to go last year, so I'm crossing fingers and toes that it works out this time.

I'd love a mid-June or later F2F -- the further out it is, the more likely I'd be to be able to scrape together the funds to attend; and besides, there are so many Buffista teachers, and I hate the thought of a F2F that just summarily excludes all of them but whoever's local to the location (and I don't think any of the 4 places we're voting on right now even have any local teachers at all, so we'd all lose out in May).

Wow. Could that sentence be any run-onnier?

On that note, is it safe to assume that we can't consider dates prior to late April since it's already almost February? Once we've decided on the city, I want to propose the following possible dates for the location:

Weekends of:
4/26
5/3
5/10
5/17
5/24 (but this is Memorial Day weekend, so I assume we aren't considering it for the F2F)
5/31
6/7
6/14
6/21
6/28

I've been thinking about how to set up this vote--maybe we should vote on our first and second choices and then have a run-off among the top three dates? Otherwise the vote will be hugely diluted because of the large number of possibilities.

ETA: Thanks, JZ. I would so love to do June for that very reason.

I'm hoping that we manage to have a mid-June F2F for my own selfish purposes

This would be better for us too. The boys would be out of school so less stressful scheduling stuff.

Any weekend in June except the 14th is good by me. (It would be bad form to skip my son's 1st birthday to go to the F2F, right?)