Wow, what a dinner. I have to say that if we'd tried to get that kind of get together happen two years ago, it would never have happened. We started off with about 20 people, but by the time every one had wandered in, we had around 40!.

The bar itself had a good atmosphere but we dominated the place with pretty much all the seats the whole way down the middle. In fact, our table was so long I had walked down the other side - the waiter had to find me and I held up other people ordering. Woops! :)

I took some pictures of the crowd, but the movement, lighting and length, etc made it impossible to see the entire group, just a good indication that there were a lot of people there.

The conference starts this morning in about 40 minute - 7:30am and the first 'stuff' starts at 8:30am. Getting up early is no problem, but I'll have to deal with the lunch time 'low' and the 8pm 'low'.

After dinner a couple of us came back to my suite, but a bunch of people I invited didn't turn up. I forgot about the timtam's and took the T-Shirt's down to the bar. But by the time we got to the bar, a bunch of people had left and gone to sleep. So, I still have a heap of T-Shirts and I still have TimTams. We'll have to try the 'get together' thing again this evening or something. Either that or I take the timtam's to my talk as a gimmick. But how am I supposed to not eat timtam's until Wednesday.. that's inhumane!