That's it, I just booked my flights and accommodation for my trip to New Zealand... a big hole in £2000, yikes!  Have arranged it so that the conference is slap bang in the middle of my visit giving some fun days either side.  Just need to write that there paper now!

Very exciting and slightly scary!  BC I would have been much more wary of something like this than I am AD... some changes are definitely to be embraced.