Day one

After a much needed rest, we woke up at 6:30 this morning so that we could get to the Bella Center early. After the craziness of lines and security we experienced last night - we did not know what we would find.

The bus stop is about a 5 minute walk from our flat - and along the way might be the most amazing pastry shop ever. Yaincha and I stopped in there for breakfast and were overwhelmed by multitude of delicious options! For better or worse, our goal is to try every pastry before we leave. :)

the bus ride was great - very easy to get around and about a 10 minute commute to the Bella. On our bus we were sitting by party delegates from Nigeria and met delegtes from the Swedish Green Party. So, i think there are going to many opportunuties to interact with officials!

To our surprise, the Bella Center was quite this morning. Hardly anyone was here yet when we arrived, so we were able to walk around and check it out without the hasslte of a crowd. It is such an awesome venue - and very huge!!

There is a documents center where you pick up a daily schedule of events, sessions and meetings, then there is another center with so many brochures, pamphlets and other information - it's insane - i am carrying around about 10 lbs. of information in my bag! There are so many different sitting areas and a huge interenet station. There is an area to Skype with a web cam as well as a lounge area with couches.

It is going to be a full day today - there are so many sessions and meetings that i want to go to - i am already having to choose between conflicting events. I think that i will write a separate post for each meeting that i attend - so stay tuned!