At the meet-up:
I didn't take any pictures myself but I should have plenty once the guys that were taking pics upload them.
Anyways, onto the activities:
First we all met in front of the Notre Dame de Paris, one guy had an MLP magazine held up so we could recognize the group. I had my umbrella hat too to make things easier. At first it was all kinda awkward since I knew nopony, we had around 30min of delay because of problems with the metro.
In the end we were about 30 people, with two guys from the US, two from Belgium, me from Brazil and the rest was French, there were 2 girls. We did a lot of walking between going for lunch and then going to a toy store to buy ponies, walking was great to break the ice for everypony. At the store we were met with the horribleness of pink celestia and people bought some ponies.
From there we took the metro to the room we had reserved, We listened to pony music, played in the ball pool and ate a pony cake. Then we watched the two new episodes of season 2 (for which many made the effort of not watching them until the meet up), it was amazing even if I had already watched them, there is something special about watching episodes with 30 bronies from inside a ball pool.
After that we had the Pony Quiz which I had made which was lots of fun as I was amazed by the incredible knowledge of some ponies. Then we were off to more ball pool shenanigans (pictures to come) including a fight between the solar empire and the lunar republic. We watched some random episodes together and did a massive sing-along of WWU. When our time in the room was over part of the people left and about 12 bronies went for dinner at a japanese restaurant for noodles.
Finally to end the night we went to a bar to have some drinks and talk more, we were there until about 1am. One brony stayed for the night in my house and we had more awesome talks.
I should say more about what was talked about, the general topic of the conversations was not about ponies. We mainly just discussed what we did with our lives, what we liked, our prospects for the future in terms of work... It was a lot of fun seeing as we had similar likings, almost everypony had a decent knowledge of computers, most liked anime/games and knew about 4chan.
In the end, it was a lot of fun and we are sure to make another meet up some time and for the people near Paris to hang out randomly.
PHOTOS TO COME
I didn't take any pictures myself but I should have plenty once the guys that were taking pics upload them.
Anyways, onto the activities:
First we all met in front of the Notre Dame de Paris, one guy had an MLP magazine held up so we could recognize the group. I had my umbrella hat too to make things easier. At first it was all kinda awkward since I knew nopony, we had around 30min of delay because of problems with the metro.
In the end we were about 30 people, with two guys from the US, two from Belgium, me from Brazil and the rest was French, there were 2 girls. We did a lot of walking between going for lunch and then going to a toy store to buy ponies, walking was great to break the ice for everypony. At the store we were met with the horribleness of pink celestia and people bought some ponies.
From there we took the metro to the room we had reserved, We listened to pony music, played in the ball pool and ate a pony cake. Then we watched the two new episodes of season 2 (for which many made the effort of not watching them until the meet up), it was amazing even if I had already watched them, there is something special about watching episodes with 30 bronies from inside a ball pool.
After that we had the Pony Quiz which I had made which was lots of fun as I was amazed by the incredible knowledge of some ponies. Then we were off to more ball pool shenanigans (pictures to come) including a fight between the solar empire and the lunar republic. We watched some random episodes together and did a massive sing-along of WWU. When our time in the room was over part of the people left and about 12 bronies went for dinner at a japanese restaurant for noodles.
Finally to end the night we went to a bar to have some drinks and talk more, we were there until about 1am. One brony stayed for the night in my house and we had more awesome talks.
I should say more about what was talked about, the general topic of the conversations was not about ponies. We mainly just discussed what we did with our lives, what we liked, our prospects for the future in terms of work... It was a lot of fun seeing as we had similar likings, almost everypony had a decent knowledge of computers, most liked anime/games and knew about 4chan.
In the end, it was a lot of fun and we are sure to make another meet up some time and for the people near Paris to hang out randomly.
PHOTOS TO COME