At lunch on Monday on the 15th, everyone went to the cafeteria on the WMO building. The cafeteria is on the top floor, and there is an open air deck all around the building with spectacular views of the area. David ran into someone he knew from grad school who now works at WMO. He is half-Swiss and moved back to Switzerland about 10 years ago. They had a nice sandwich lunch out on the deck, at least until the cold wind chased them back inside.
That evening, David went out to dinner
at Les Relais de l'Entrecote with some CEOP scientists. The restaurant only serves one item for dinner - steak with their special sauce and thin french fries. The waitress wrote down on the paper tablecloth how well everyone wanted their steak cooked. She even came around and filled the plates with both steak and fries again after they were cleared once. David had a Cardinal beer with dinner; everything was delicious. On the walk to dinner, they walked across one of the bridges over the Rhone. David tried to take pictures of the night cityscape, but the wind was blowing the camera (and shaking the bridge as well).The meeting itself is going well enough. David is glad to see everyone who he only sees at most every year or two, as well as talking to them on international telecons every couple months. Some of the scientists though tend to filibuster when showing their results, and the agenda kept getting pushed back. There were many interesting results shared, and there will be additional international collaboration in the coming months and years.
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