Then, on the day of the event, I drove 5 hours to the conference hall, but when I arrive there, none of the staff know anything about an AWS event! there is some other event happening for high school teachers, and that's it. I double and triple check the AwS event website. It's still up, and still has the same location and date. I call our rep, who reaches out to some other people and eventually gets back to me and tells me the event was cancelled!
Why did nobody reached out to let me know, and why didn't they even take the website down! it was bizarre. I really had thought I was going insane.
I had brunch, and then drove back another 5 hours. At least I got reimbursed for the mileage!