The first annual UK Meetup 07 took place on Sept 8th 2007, a bunch of NG enthusiasts of all ages, locations, and user ranks came together to for a day out in beautiful, albeit cloudy... London.
I got together with London-based NG regular Tom of the Super-Flash-Bros and we tailored a fun meetup for whomever felt like showing up. I will admit that this was probably the most insane of my ideas simply being that I was going thousands of miles to meet people I've met on the internet let alone this was my first time ever going to Europe. But fuck it. You only live once and the opportunity was there, Tom was kind enough to help me set it up and be my contact across the pond and so it was on. Enough talk, on with the pics!
I left on Sept 5th for London, after a 7-hour overnight flight I finally arrived. Took the train over to meet up with Zoy, who was meeting up with me at the station to escort me to my hotel.
I hadnt realized how crowded Paddington was so it took a good deal of effort finding him but I did and we went on the tube over to Shepherd's Bush. I checked in and we waited an hour for Mogly to arrive.
While we waited, Zoy decided to poke around my unreleased Flash shit on my computer.
Mogly finally phoned us from the station and we walked over to go get him and bring him to the hotel so he could settle in.
After getting Mogly settled in, you guessed it, we looked through HIS unreleased shit on his puter. It's kind of pathetic now that I think about it but whatever, we are Flashaholics you cant help but poke around and see what your colleagues are working on. This activity would actually repeat itself every single time a computer was in the vicinity, this repeats itself in Tom's flat but more on that later.
So after running out of things to look at we went to the supermarket to grab some munchies and some very 'English' movies to get me acclimated to England. The only thing on the bargain bin was the Full Monty and About a Boy. So we brought em back to the room. When we got back, I noticed that Mogly had brought over his tablet and being a sucker for peer pressure I was prodded to use a tablet I so despise, I had to be a good sport though and so I did. Unfortunately I wasnt able to destroy the evidence and Zoy was able to catch a rare instance of me attempting to look enthusiastic about using a tablet. I still hate it.
After that, we went out to eat some fish'n'chips at some place nearby. They kinda sucked but whatever, after that it got dark and so we retired to the room. After Zoy left, Mogly and I went down to the hotel bar and because he had treated me to English things, it was only right I treat him to very Latin things and so I treated him to Mojito's, Caipirinha's and of course, Tequila. Came back to the room and crashed, Mogly wasnt tired and he went back downstairs hit on some 35 yr old woman, and other shit that he probably has yet to fess up about. He says that he also threw up in the elevator and had an argument with some bald dude that he'd later run into on our last night in London. More on that later. What a fucking lightweight. Anyway i was super tired and so thats all we did on day 1.
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