Summer Social Meeting 2010-09
After we had the real life meet up in Hannover this year due to the [birthday of the Arianne project] we decided to set up another meeting soon as possible, besides from development discussions and talks and just for spending a nice time together again.
In early july of 2010 we decided to celebrate the hot summer together and set up a date and location for another meeting. We also decided to spend a bit more time together and wanted to have a long evening with fun around us, so we chose the date from the 2nd september till the 5th september for the meeting. As though as we are all living at different places, we wanted to have some kind of holiday house for us alone for being a bit more private there and open for what we are going to do, besides from hotels.
It was difficult, but we made it! We found a holiday appartment in Hilchenbach, a nice and calm city, 14 km away from Siegen, 95 km from Cologne/Köln and 130 km from Frankfurt am Main, at the foot of the german "Rothaargebirge". Although the house itself was located in a nature surrounded area (sheeps behind the house, really rural) we found different activities we could make together and had a nice time.
The attendees were: Hendrik, Markus, Katie, Silvio, Marco, Vanessa, Simon and Frank as a special guest
Events
Thursday
Arrival
Vanessa set up an official arriving time with the house owners at 16.15 o'clock on the second september. As though as we all came from all over Germany and England, we didn't arrive at the same time. Simon was the first attendee who came to the house and waited with a fully packed car and some really nice signs on it, infront of the door of the house. Silvio and Vanessa arrived together in a taxi as the second ones. Good, that the taxi-lady didn't know the way to the house at all :D Seems, like the area is pretty much unknown there, also for inhabitans, but we saw Simon and guided her to the right yellow huge house and were happy to be there then. Katie, Hendrik and Markus joined the "waiting three" a few minutes after that.
Then the waiting started... Although a time has been set up earlier, the house owners didn't show themselves to us before Markus took a look around the house and found a man working besides of it. And guess what, that was the guy we needed! He gave us the keys and explained a few things and let us in there.
Food food food!
We brought the baggage into our rooms (3 rooms with different sizes) and planned the rest of the day. What we had to do was: Finding a place for shopping some food! So we grabbed the cars and drove to Hilchenbach and searched for food. After finding a shopping center with different food shops in there, we started to buy most of the things we needed like kitchen equipment and FOOD :D (and some nice drinks :P)
The evening
After returning home from our shopping trip, we needed some minutes to bring everything into the house. It was late there and we all hungry, so Katie and Vanessa started to plan the meal for the evening. We bought some roast pork and wanted to serve it with potatoes and vegetables out of the oven and started our plan. Unfortunetly we saw too late, that the furnace grate was too huge for oven :D Uh oh... So a plan B had to be set up. Katie got an idea then of what we can do and made a beautiful roast pork out of the oven, made in a cooking pot in there and it was reaaaally tasty! We also had carrots and brokkoli as well as potatoes. Yummi!