Yesterday was a day spent well! A delegation of the
Anime 200x staff made the trip to Almelo, to visit our friends of the
Theater Hotel. This year's festival will be the fourth to be held at THA and things just keep getting better and better.
What I love about working with the THA folks is that they are very helpful and that, after four years, we have really found our match with them: they know what we want and how to implement these wishes.
Things that we covered yesterday include:
* Meeting over coffee, with some small talk to get into things :)
* Question round. We have a whole wad of new staffers who've never worked with the THA folks before, so they had a few questions about what's possible and what's not.
* Rounds over the convention grounds. Visit each room we've rented (which comes to 95% of the hotel), go over the requisites for each of them and investigate how changes to the rooms affect our plans.
* Meeting with the kitchen's chef, to go over the buffet's menu.
* Some more chit-chat over a lovely tapas luncheon.
About that tapas: if you're ever in the vicinity of Almelo, check out
Solera. The place is run as part of THA and the food really is quite good! And their coffee frape! OMG! GOODNESS! I will most definitely spend a few hours relaxing at their place, while Anime 2007 is on.
So... Things are looking up for Anime 2007 and they seem to be falling together nicely. Working with a dozen staffers instead of just us five takes some adjustment though since, instead of doing all the work ourselves, we now need to coach a bunch of guys in doing that very same work. Exciting times!
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