Our 1st day at Mysterium

Okay, I've stolen the computer back from devon for a little bit (he'll get back to his notes from the presentation shortly) to tell a little about our afternoon/evening here. After we settled in and went back down to the lobby we were warmly greeted by Kha'tie and we met up with G'ildor, Neema, Kass, memiki, Ayli, Rex, Ken, L'orr and a whole bunch of other people whose names I will never remember! At a request from Kha'tie and Scraper, devon had to run out to the car to snag his computer speakers (which were thoroughly taped to the car serving as speakers for the cd player, since the car speakers don't work) for the presentations. Apparently speakers for the presentations were either overlooked, or never made it, so I guess it was lucky we just happened to have ours with us! I went up to Ayli's room to help with ironing names onto Greeter shirts, and in no time at all it seemed like it was time for the presentations! Budgie's quilt presentation went over really well, even though lights still on in the room cut down on the clarity of viewing. People were in awe of Budgie's work, especially when they could see it close up in person. Golden Wedge's presentation went over really well, too, and of course my kids loved the Twinkies that were handed out! There was quite a variety in presentations, every one different and interesting in their own ways, even a clip from Cyan about Myst V, but I have to say I'm still partial to the two GoG presentations! Not sure yet what tomorrow holds. It seems that many people already saw the Sears Tower today, so we may have to strike out on our own tomorrow if we want to see it. Hopefully we'll be able to spend some time with some of our friends here before we have to leave Sunday!

Okay, looks like devon fell asleep (it's 11:20pm after all!) so I guess he'll finish posting his paraphrased notes tomorrow. I think he's got bits and pieces of the opening interview/Q&A session with Rand still left to post. Fair warning, it's not exactly accurate to what was actually said, but you get the general idea.

Good night all, more to come tomorrow!

-devonette