Given that no sustained complaints were made about procedure before or during the vote, I don't think there's a valid reason for a do-over.

Possibly it's just my impression, but I know that I and several others did bring up using a voting system that would let us see not only what cities people wanted most, but what cities would be doable for the largest number of people.

I have no real dog in this fight, fwiw - not saying what I voted for or if it won, but as far as my making it there, the city choice won't be a deciding factor. And I do love N.O. But it is for some people, and I'd have like to have gathered that info some way. That said, I strongly believe that anything we do now other than say Yay!NO is going to be pointless and destructive.

Just give me some bread crumbs so I can find my way back to the hotel from Bourbon St.

You don't need bread crumbs. That's what people like me are for.

My parents are vegan, they found many places to eat here.

Old Dog New Trick closed.

Camellia Grill is open.

The owner of Jacque-Imo's has opened a couple of other places (I think Crabby Jack's and the Wine Shop)

Sara's is really good. Vegetarian-friendly and just a couple of blocks from a comic shop.

I find it hard to get to Nirvana when it's open, but that's just me. There's practically a falafel district on down Magazine: Mona's, Beirut Cafe, Byblos, I think another place but I can't think of the name. Juan's opened another branch in Mid-City. I believe there is also a Mona's on Frenchmen street (edge of the Quarter)

I'm fond of the juice bar that used to be the Nine Muses Coffeeshop.

I know where all three(3) of the kosher restaurants are. One is in the Quarter!

Oh? Does that mean you're going to shed clothes on the way to Bourbon St? We can just follow nekkid P-C around and then gather his clothes up on the way home?

That sounds tastier than a trail of bread crumbs IMHO.

Um, er, I realize that this is butting into a conversation that is moving along, but could people who are planning on coming to Seattle for Halloween PLEASE sound off? Plans need to start being made, and I'm already freaking out about a trip I'm going on next week, so any headway that can be made about Halloween would give me one less thing to have a gibbering meltdown over.

(With that said, ND, you are doing a really good job hearding the F2F stuff. I just wanted to make sure I told you that.)

I so wish I were joining you for Halloween, but I'll be at a convention in SF that weekend.

Me too, but I'll be really pregnant and not allowed to travel.

It's the deciding and redeciding and arguing about the decision that has led to the worst Buffista bitternesses. Let's go with this decision, which was made according to the understood rules.

Amen. And keep in mind I'm speaking as one of those people who voted for the runner up. NO is just fine. If I can afford the trip when the time comes, I'll be there, and it will be lots of fun because Buffistas are there and there are cool things to see and do. Besides, if we went by my internal thermometer, we'd have to have all our F2Fs on Vancouver Island or the Scottish Highlands or somesuch, and while that'd be really cool in every possible sense, it'd be a bit spendy and logistically challenging.

Me too, but I'll be really pregnant and not allowed to travel.

Studies show that eight-months-pregnant women who fly on planes tend to crash on mysterious islands inhabited by possible dinosaurs.