After waking up and feeling like we had eaten and entire cow each, we got in the car and headed for downtown to attend the conference.

Everybody agreed on the fact that the party the day before had been pretty bad, and the hopes were therefore not big for the evenings’ two parties – Zeebys Award and Nickelodeon kids and family group party. However, I did like the photo shoot they had at the entrance.
 Realgames party

From left to right: Chris (Nonoba), Hot girl, Maya (Mochi), Pooj (I’minlikewithyou), Charles (I’minlikewithyou), Marc (me - Nonoba), Oliver (Nonoba), Carol (Mochi), and Ira (onemorelevel).

First we went to the Zeebys award show - wow did that turn out to be a reason to get drunk… The awards mostly featured countless variations on the “hidden object & adventure” genre — high production value, for sure, but not very innovative. The band - yes there was a band - was actually pretty cool, but played their songs way too long, the only thing that kept me from falling a sleep was following Maya twittering with Charles about escaping from the award show.

The MC was, however, really good. He was funny and was almost able to make the award show worth attending, but then again I am still sitting here with a feeling that I lost 2 hours of my life that I will never get back.

Ok, so the first evening venue was not a perfect match to what we were looking for, but the next one was. The Nickelodeon party was at the Seattle Aquarium with an open bar. It was a great venue and everyone looked to have a great time, and touching fish became a lot more fun after a couple of beers and Captain Morgan with Coke. What maybe also made the party so much better was the fact that we knew so many more people.

Great second day, tomorrow will be kind of slow since many are leaving early.