It was a looong weekend because of the Mac event organized by Mac users in Varaždin.

I was excited about the whole thing so much I could not evan sleep the night before. And despite my high expectations the whole event turned out to be even better and caught me by surprise.

The whole thing started when BJ boys (how everyone popularly calls them these days) picked me up in Križevci so we can go together to Varaždin. During our 1 hour trip the only subjects we were talking about were Apple, Macs and Mac users.

Once we came to Green Pub (where this Mac event was held) the mayhem began :). Believe it or not, all that most of us were talking about were Macs and how to use a Mac in our daily routines.
There were many different types of Mac users there. Some were into photography, others into music, we also had programers and much more. So you can imagine how wonderful it was (for a Mac and Apple fan and user) to see and hear how everyone of them uses their Macs. I even learned some other stuff not-Mac-related from some of the users (much of that was about photography).

The best thing was the openness of the people there. After the initial handshake, with the people I didn’t already know, the conversation just started as we knew each other for years and not minutes. It was amazing.

I’m also glad some windows users came and asked some questions about the Mac platform. I hope we were not influenced by beer to much at that time and that our answers pushed them a step closed to becoming new Mac switchers.

At one point there were more than 30 people in the room and about 9-10 MacBooks of all sorts on the table. Almost everyone had some Apple hardware (iPhones, iPods of all generations, MacBooks and even 4 Apple remotes ;) ).

I think it was about 5 when the official MacBeer event was over and everyone went home. Then a small group of us went to the originally booked bar for this event and had an after party. As now there was a smaller group of us we naturally connected even better (like this was possible) and had an even better time. I only remember I was laughing almost all the time because of some jokes that were passed around :)!

Once the after party was over Bj Boys, BlackShtef, Ficho and me went to dinner. It turned out to be as funny as the after party and because we had such a good time we decided to have a second after party as well.

After we circled Varaždin about 5-6 times we went for some additional beers and partied until midnight. Then Ficho sent us home and the rest is history!

The conclusion is that it was the best gathering of any sort I’ve ever attended (and a lot of other people agree with this as well), and that a lot of people that I only knew by their virtual personalities are even better when you meet them in person. I would also like to congratulate everyone who participated in organizing the whole thing - You’ve done a great job from choosing a location, creating flyers, posters, backgrounds, making sure we had something to eat and drink and have a great time.
We loved the whole thing so much that we started to think about organizing something similar soon, but which will involve some meet :).

With this I’ll end my MacBeer report, and if you are interested in more check all the photos from that event.

You can see all my photos taken that day here:

http://gallery.me.com/darkokontin#100256

And here are the photos of everybody else who uploaded them afterwards:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/madness_photo/archives/date-posted/2009/03/16/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanja-gavric/sets/72157615335787540/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/buffy10/sets/72157615238902485/
http://gallery.me.com/lukasucic#100116
http://gallery.me.com/filip#100033
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivanbrezakbrkan/sets/72157615265152552/

If I missed someone’s gallery please let me know and I’ll include it in the list.

Ok, that is enough spamming (again) for today :) God bless all Mac users and their Macs!

C u!

EDIT: New gallery is up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavlijovic/sets/72157614617359098/

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