Wow Ruth. I'm normally such a real life kind of guy, I say normally because my new normal seems to be hours and hours on steemit! lol
I totally commend you on your efforts of bringing steemit members into the 3-d world! Looks like it will be an amazing get together. Wish I could be there!
Lol, yes all of our lives have been drastically altered by steemit and I too sit at the computer MUCH more than ever before in my life. I totally wish you were coming to Portland and could come! However, sometime in the next year and a half we will find ourselves in the same part of the world and it will work....I'm sure of it.