Conventions for me growing up were our family vacations. We'd go a day early and go to the zoo and the museums and stuff. Now that I am out of the Borg, every summer I still go out and buy new outfits and take my family to Oklahoma City (where our conventions were) and we go to the zoo and the museums and stuff. I've taken the boring part out of the convention s and left in the fun stuff for my family. It's made me not miss the assemblies at all.