Day 14 – Friday Convention

The day had finally arrived for the convention to start. Our hotel, the Renaissance Wien was packed with Witnesses so you can imagine the long line for the breakfast buffet. Although, as you would expect it was very orderly. The few non-Witness guests at the hotel seemed over-whelmed by the crowd.  We were instructed to meet at 8:15 a.m. in the lobby where we found several Austrian brothers and sisters with the orange umbrellas who would guide us on the subways to the stadium.

Peter (on the right) was our guide for our two subway line connection to the stadium which took about 30 minutes.

As we got closer to the entrance of the stadium, our brothers and sisters were waiting with welcome banners along the sidewalk. How loving!

The Convention banners displayed proudly.

A panorama shot of the stadium. There were three sections: German was the largest, followed by a section for Serbian-Croatian, then English.
Here is the view from the English corner of the stadium looking toward the German side. The Serbo-Croatian speaking section is to our right. The attendance was about 26,000 total (19,000 German and the balance English and Serbian-Croatian).
Here is family; seated and ready for the convention video to begin.