{"id":260,"date":"2023-06-17T06:10:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/?p=260"},"modified":"2023-06-17T06:10:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T22:10:45","slug":"ic-2023-part-5-the-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/archives\/260","title":{"rendered":"IC 2023 &#8211; Part 5; The Last Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This should be pretty short (though whenever I promise that it never seems to happen!) I woke up earlier that I would have liked, it wasn&#8217;t especially early, I just hadn&#8217;t had a lot of sleep over the past few nights. I drove down to Mullins Center again for the closing ceremony and again sat with the Australian Crew and Suz,.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a pretty standard award ceremony, not quite as long as I thought it would be. Australia did pretty well, but we were definitely beaten by New Zealand. You can see the Australian success and results at FPS Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/lcBnr-bn5x\/\">Facebook post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1026-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1026-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-262\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1017-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1017-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1017-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1017-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1018-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-id=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1018-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1018-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/www.simon.treadgold.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_1018-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After the it was goodbye to Suz, Dylan and some other Australians who I saw at the awards ceremony and were leaving. Then it was back to North. Unlike last year I hadn&#8217;t had a chance to pack yet, so I did that. This was one of the easier trips as I was driving back to Hartford, and had a night there I could take bags with things in them as well as my suitcase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I packed my car, had some goodbye chats in the lobby. I found out that Julie, the AD from NZ is going to be at Disney, staying in the same resort as me, at the same time, so we&#8217;ll see if I run into her! Then, with sadness, but having had a good time I left UMass Amherst. IC 2023 (and my 3rd IC) done. I&#8217;m looking forward to the 50th IC next year and hope I can make it to Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I think this post actually was a shorter one!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should be pretty short (though whenever I promise that it never seems to happen!) 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