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conference etc
The confernce has come and gone. I spent a lot of the time installing and demoing and training and stuff. It was pretty good. A few nights ago Dave and I were walking around and we stumbled upon some dudes playing streetball in this university type place. I oined in the game, and it was pretty good, although dave and myself got our butts kicked by a 17 year old and a 14 year old in 2 on 2.

The streets in spain are realy cool. As you get closer to thge water they turn into these little alleyways and laneways. The lanes are boarded on each side by 3-4 storey high residential buildings with 1800´s style, spanish, cast iron, tiny balconys and everyone hangs their washing over the railings. You can walk around these streets and run into some really cool stores and stuff.

One of the other cool things about spain is that they have snowboards in department stores. So you´re in grace brothers for example, and you walk up to floor 5 and there´s a rack of snowboards and heaps of jackets and stuff. One store had a libtech board in it :) not a dark series though :(

Two nights ago was the gala dinner for the confernece, and we went out to this place in the sticks which ended up being an old winery (done up for business functions) and had a dinner there. We were on a table with some very drunk english chicks that gave me their phone number and email (even though one of them was sitting next to her boyfriend who brought her to the function in the first place). There was cool spanish dancing and lots of weird food. Afterwards we went out to an irish pub with the brio netherlands dudes and they were telling us what Australian music they knew. They would just spontaneously start singing certain songsd every now and then for one or two lines of the chorus then stop and laugh. I got back to my room about 3:30am and had to be up at 7:30 for the conference. woe. Glad I wasn´t drinking at all.

Last night after the conference we went walking around the sea shore (i had a dip in the mediterranean... mediteranian... mediamranan...the sea) and then asked some locals where was a good place to get paella. They sent us to a place that didn´t have paella at all, so we asked some smarter locals and they pointed us to this mad place owned by some guy called pepe. He looked after us well, and made us have these weird shots called something like "arujo" in frozen glasses. It was way cool.

Nothing much else to report at the moment, my memories are a little disjointed in terms of when things occurred because I have been so busy with work stuff, but hopefully the aqbove makes sense. I´mma click submit now and hope that blogger doesn´t stuff up and i lose my message!

posted by hunt @ 8:39 PM