$29?! Wow, that's amazing!

I'll have to point my friend to this -- she's going to Burning Man, and needs more dress-up clothes!

wish have had money. so i could buy stuff. lots and lots of pretty stuff to play in.

So just to let everyone know, we're a little more than 4 weeks away from choosing our final city for the F2F. After that we choose the actual hotel for the event within that city.

As for as I know all the local point people have the IFB now, they are busy starting to dig and get info on their cities.

So, for everyone else, what do we want to know? What are target prices ranges? We need to be looking at all those fun things.

From the discussion that I've seen in here, $100/night seems to be the most folks like to spend for the hotel, and it would be oh so wonderful if we could get that down farther. Also, some folks like to come in early and leave late, so questions should be asked about how far we can extend our group rate. We definitely need it from Friday through Sunday, but if folks are going to start before or after the actual weekend can they have the rate extended?

Ground transportation in the city, airports that we can fly into for the city. I think that our choices this year really only have one major airport each, but I may be wrong.

What do others want to know?

It might be good to know how much flights are from some buffista concentrated areas like Seattle, LA, SF, DC, and Boston, New York etc. Also since Toronto is in (Right?) what we need to think about in terms of border crossing. Other than that I think everything was pretty well covered. Nice Job Java Cat. And good job with the cat herding ND.

Ok, it's afternoon in KristinTown. Where are the reports?

Yeah.

Ok, it's afternoon in KristinTown. Where are the reports?

Only got a sec here, but our convergence on CT was wonderful. Kristen is a complete doll and a fabulous hostess, and her husband's a great guy. Plus, their dog, Zoe, rocks.

Down there were Kristen, me, Thessaly, Trudy, Hil, Cass, BillyTea, S.J., Jon B., Nutty, Theodosia, DXM, and quite a few non-Buffistas, and maybe a couple Buffistas I've left out and if so, I apologize. There was much yummy food, and much, much beer, of which I partook muchly of, and much playing with Zoe and Trudy's dog Dallas, who was indeed the least Alpha mammal on the premises.

The day wound up with us watching "Interstate 60" on a DVD projector outside, which is an excellent movie that I'd heard zip about. A good time was had by all.

Sounds fabulous, Victor. Definitely a crowd I'd like to hang with!

Victor, that sounds wonderful. (but it's Kristin, not Kristen)

I am in a daze, but we had SO much fun! I will post a few pictures and a better report later this week--I'm still in hostess mode.

Thank you everyone who came! It was a blast!

Thank you for hosting such a wonderful party!