Steemians in the Flesh

^{Here's my third post for @future24's Steemit Monthly Author Challenge (SMAC) where I get to make a post about my life each day, for 30 days.}

Yesterday was a particularly exciting one for me because I got to meet my first real live Steemians. Woo hoo!

A couple of weeks ago @redrica organised and posted an invitation to a meet-up in London which I somehow stumbled across. No idea how. But very happy I did! 😁

I immediately decided I was going to go but then when I started looking into travel arrangements I began to get cold feet. It wasn't starting until 6 p.m. and I knew I'd only have a couple of hours before I 'd need to leave and make the 3 hour return journey home.

Enter @immarojas to the rescue!

The lovely Imma very kindly offered to meet me early so I could get more Steemian time in and, after a lot of to-ing and fro-ing we finally decided on meeting at Moorgate, which for some reason I described erroneously, as being at the end of the Northern Line. 😕 From there we headed back to Liverpool Street to a little cafe where we had coffee and cake and hunkered down to share Steemit experiences.

From there Imma took me back to the station where we met up with @teodora and Enrika.

We got to the meetup venue, the Queen of Hoxton, about 5.30 where upon Enrika managed to get some changes made to the tables so that we could have two large ones next to each other and Teodore and Imma set about sellotaping signs to the window.

The venue was a really fun place with a dance floor downstairs and a roof top terrace where you could get food and lounge around on cushions.

Enrika had come prepared and had cashed out some SBD, to buy us all our first round of drinks! We decided on a bottle of red to start with and now we were all set, ready for the first arrivals.

As the evening went on more and more people arrived until there were 20 or so of us. Very exciting and bodes well for the future!

I didn't get to speak to everyone but enjoyed conversations with a number of fellow Steemians including @dragosroua, creator of the steem.supply tool which I use everyday.

We had an interesting talk about his tags tool but, it wasn't until the train ride home that I realised that was I was asking for wasn't possible. I was talking as though each post has one tag when, in fact it has 5. No wonder he thought we had a different understanding of how tags work in Steemit! 😁 😁 😁

@simonjay and I had a good chat about the pros and cons of niches, amongst other things, @adetorrent and I got into a competition about who had won the most photo contests 😁, @ivargereiko and I traded stories of how we got into Steemit and where we hoped to go with it, @teodora and I discussed certain vegan projects and alternative lifestyles, and @ultravioletmag gave me the low down on delegation and other strategies.

These are the ones that popped into my head there were many others and thanks to all you for making it such a fun evening.

Thanks to @bristena94 for keeping a note of us all! 😊

Here's a pic, curtesy of @bristena94 that shows a bit of the atmosphere.

Sadly, I had to leave before the party, party got going but I'll be back.

8.30 pm saw me wending my way homewards which took 6 trips on public transport!!!

If I'd been more on the ball it could have been 4 but I took the tube in the wrong direction and had to double back thereby missing my train to Brighton and having to get 2 instead of 1. It was most definitely worth it though and a huge thanks to @redrica for organising ti and being the perfect hostess. 💙

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