Honestly, this is all kind of moot for us since it's looking like Drew's schedule may make it impossible for us to even have our East Coast reception/BBQ/gathering on the date we'd planned.

Oh, noes!

The reservations agent at the Holiday Inn in Philly said to stay away from all holidays, especially July 4th because that's prime Philly history-buff-patriotic-tourist rates (>$300).

java, you can refer them to me, but I will say that email is better, and I am going to be a little tense and preoccupied until I hit my deadline on April 1.

java, you can refer them to me, but I will say that email is better, and I am going to be a little tense and preoccupied until I hit my deadline on April 1.

Okay. I can help again when I get back from London on the 23rd.

So if we said:

June 5-6, June 19-20, July 10-11, and July 17-18 to get rid of known problematic dates? That seems like a fair range of possibilities.

That sucks, Kristin. Do you know when you might be able to resched?

Oh, noes!

Yes that's what we've been thinking. It's also why we've been stressing a little about when the F2F might happen, as dates get closer and closer it's harder and harder for me to juggle travel schedules.

I did just get an email that makes it look like our east coast reception will be safe, so that's good at least.

Father's Day is June 20th, which may affect some people's plans.

Are we down to two cities, NYC and Philly, or is there official pimpage for a third? I know we'd talked about a few other places, but I haven't seen anyone say anything about them recently.

If not (given the restrictions Trudy noted), I say we vote Philly vs. NYC and then go to date from there.

we did the F2F on Father's day last year, ftr.

Was anyone willing to pimp Baltimore? I really think we could do an awesome F2F there, but I don't know it well enough to pimp, and I know Lisah has tons going on now.

Yeah, we've got a few folks around there now.