I did, Kristin, thanks! How many folks have RSVPd to your East Coast F2F, if you don't mind sharing?

Excellent. Let me know once you've ironed out plans.

In terms of numbers, it's early for definites, but I have between 15-20 "probably" replies.

When we get closer (early July), I'll post a list of attendees to make sure I have everyone and I'll Nilly back to the original post with info about the party to see if I'll pick up any stragglers.

On top of the Buffistas, we usually have another 20 or so friends from this area who come, but none of them will be coming early or staying the night.

It's a blast!

Matt, where would you want to go, if we did get 6 people together for a Windjammer? I'd consider it. I've done the Grenadines and some of the US Virgin Islands. The BVIs would be cool.

To tell the truth, I never even considered destination islands. I figure between the company and the boat, I'll be happy as long as no tropical storms blow up and we don't get left behind on Haiti. I wonder if they sail to Martinique?

Matt, I would love to do the Windjammer cruise thing, depending on when it is we go. In January (a nice time to visit warmer climes, methinks), you get two freebies for every six people.

Edit: After looking more at the site, the more I really, really would love to do this.

If I can swing the time off of work, I'd love to do the Windjameer thing.

Revised RFP insent to NoiseDesign. I think it's better than last year's, for what it's worth.

For what it's worth, I need to note that despite the fact I would love to go on the Windjammer and have been dying to do so, I wouldn't be able to go unless it coincided with a school vacation. That whole school teacher thing doesn't allow for much flexibility.

Summer is a great time to go on one, though, becuase most people reserve times during the winter...otherwise I'm stuck with a specific week in December, February, or April. Sorry...

Got the RFP, I've only had a quick chance to look over it but it's looking good to my eyes right now.

Also, I've heard pretty much no discussion on the dates so I'm going to assume that means that we're announcing May 21-22 as the dates of the F2F tomorrow. It's time to speak now or forever hold your peace. I'm running over to press to give folks one last chance to voice stuff.

Regardless of when we do it, how wide a window for the dates are we talking about this time around? Is that in the RFP? Not having the group rate for Thursday night this year was really nasty. I checked the LA F2F notes, and the Safari/Anabelle allowed the group rate from Wednesday through Monday.

Yep, that's on the list DX. Part of the reason we're nailing things like dates and location down early. I'd like to try to get us a week window of the good rate, at minimum a 5 day window.

The Bronzer Reunion will be in May in NOLA, and I'm working out dates for that by poll/availability. I won't know the date for a few weeks, I think.

ETA: Not that that should have any bearing on F2F dates, now that I think about it. There's few in the way of BronzerBuffistas who'd have a conflict about which event they'd attend, I think.