>>>>>If you attend, stay at the conference hotel. Half the conference is the after hour informal interaction with other attendees. A lot of people will share a room, some of which are quite large.
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>>>>Rooms or people? Oh, never mind.
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>>>If I had noticed that you had already replied I would have known not to reply, even without reading yours first.
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>>Thanks for the vote of confidence, makes me feel slightly more normal. But then some of the friends of our youngest have already told her that "your family is now declared officially weird" :).
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>Just wondering what was the 'weirdness factor' :o)

I guess the few times they visited, we may have said something in passing (like when one said "...and I lost the game!" to which I threw "don't worry, you'll find it", which everybody else got immediately). Or the puzzle over the back yard door latch... (see picture). Or the bookshelf/wall across the middle of the living room (or the absence of the dying room?).

Who knows. It's teenagers, they have their own language (plus a few which are theirs but not own).