Seeing that my co-delegates may have to catch up on some sleep -and some of them are in time zones much further West- I feel I should at least give some general information.
Some of you know that Filou broke my camera last week, so I too have to wait for the pictures but I tell you: Hundreds were taken!
Regarding the outcome of the conference: Some of the results will be confidential but I can tell that I was very happy to hear this afternoon that President Bush and Chancellor Schroeder shaked hands today for the first time in 16 months. You don't see the success of your hard work that quickly most of the time.
And hard work it was.
Sara and Don arrived at Thursday. In spite of their jetlag, we forced them to see Munich's answer to Versailles:
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(I wonder why there were Corvette fans staying in the US......)
They also had to taste their first beer under the chestnut trees close by.
After that, Filou and Tigris had to unpack their gifts. (See John's thread). I must admit that some foreign drugs were smuggled in this region (Organic grown US catnip....). This part of the conference was a big success.
Next day we picked Vio up. All of us went to a little town that still looks rather medieval (To learn from history was one of our major purposes).
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We are sitting in the very background of this picture;)
In the evening, Randi and John arrived. Shortly after the full conference was started you can already see in our faces on the picture in John's thread that stress had started. (Especially for Filou, who I must admit it growled at any conference member. He's a monarchist, not a democrat:( )
Next day we went to downtown Munich:
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At this time our conference had the tough part where you think you'll never make it, as the start of Oktoberfest plus a big soccer game crowded the places so much that Vio had just time to buy one pair of shoes (no shoes for Sara, Randi and me:( :( :( ) before we had to move the conference to one of Munich's beer (No, just applejuice) gardens.
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Next day: We went for lunch to a brewery , aaahhh conference site near the Alps:
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This place was so secret I could not find a single decent picture of it in the whole wide web.
Then we went up the Alps to have a view of all our problems from a distance:
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The weather was all the time in the low 80s. Too sunny, because the standard Bavarian sky needs some white clouds.
