Monday, September 29^th 2008 (Rob)

Coking.com Seminar Training and Welcome:

Today was definitely a workday, but there was a lot of fun to be had as well. Unfortunately, I have no pictures for today. I will find some good pictures from yesterday to put in their place. Most of the good pictures today were taken  by other people.

I woke up at 6:00 this morning to start of a lovely first day of the seminar. Setup the different IT equipment and then had some breakfast. Breakfast here is similar to our style in the states. There are eggs, bacon, sausage, tater tots for hash browns, and some other normal American food. Along with this, they have hard boiled eggs, soft boiled eggs, breads, nutella, mushrooms, and Sauteed tomatoes. Not all the food is the same, but it is all delicious. Every meal I have the opportunity to try something that I have never tried or am not used to trying. It is quite the experience. I had some type of raw white fish with a red-orange sauce over it that was delicious. Of course there are all these amazing hors-devours that are perfect for each meal. I am quite impressed by the culinary expertise of this region.

Later on in the evening, after the day of training we welcomed most of the regular seminar attendees with a spread of different finger foods and hors-devours. More importantly, there was delicious beer, wine and champagne as well.  

After mingling and saying hello, the event was moved to the restaurant and Ice Bar. The restaurant is the place where we eat most of our meals and the Ice Bar is a bar attached to the hotel that actually has a bar made up of ice. I had some delicious dinner and a few different drink which made the evening quite a good time.

So far I have seen that they know how to treat you in Germany.