Oh, sorry. Nope, it's settled. She's coming to visit me on the June 26/27 weekend, and she leaves to go back to Kenya the week after. I could only go to a F2F in July, and unfortunately, that's not the date of the F2F. It's really a bummer, because I was so stressed out about my puppy last year that I didn't get to go. I was so looking forward this year. Prom is pretty much the only dancing I ever get to do.

My Aunt Sharon's church is able to bring her to the states about once every three years. And the past 4 visits she's made to the states, she's been kept too busy by the church (on fundraising and teaching) to get up to SF for a visit. I've gone down to LA and visited, but it's kind of like your parent not seeing where you live for 15 years, ya know? And getting 1:1 time with her is very, very special. Getting 1:30 time with Buffistas is also very, very special, but it's available to me every year (I hope!).

Javachick - we can do a mini f2f in Philly soon.

Mos def!!

Sooo... voting on location? Are we there yet? I feel like we got distracted.

Aren't we still waiting to hear back from some of the hotel prospects?

Another date/place picking method we could go with is people put together a bid that includes both and then we vote on the date and place at once.

That way we could, for example, vote between NYC in September and Miami in July at the same time.

OMG sticking a spork in my eye would be better than either of those at those respective times of year.

That's what we call a joke.

Though I was not joking about people presenting unified time/place bids. That way we could better adjust to regional weather conditions.

Trudy, I think that's a fabulous idea. Obviously we need to think about it for next year, but I think it's the way to go.

So...this year? Bueller?