Most funny was Willi Weissenbrunner, who took a big bag of laundry with him to be washed during the party. He said today is the only day to get stuff clean, otherwise he can´t change underwear for the next two weeks. Willi is a hard man, but this is too much even for the most powerful Celt, so we activated my washing machine during the fest.  (On our big globe I think this was the only one World Wide Party where laundry had been done.)

At exactly 21,oo o´clock we rose our glasses of Hefeweizen and toasted to fun, friendship and all good people we met, we know and we will meet in fandom. Shortly afterwards I rushed to the computer and answered some e-mails of friends who sent electronic greetings. Among them were Cat Mintz (who will celebrate the party in six hours), Wolfi Bauer and Gina Manzetti (who celebrated just right with us) and Bruno Barras, who celebrated the event six hours before ours in Malaysia (and was surely drunk the time we toasted him...)

All in all we had a nice party with a lot of jokes, fresh underwear (for Willi), nice e-mails and good music until 26 o´clock (or was it 27 when the last fan left...)
We all promised to continue next year with more emphasize on the world wide net, maybe with life-video, let´s see.

Now we have two reports from good old friends of the Party:
Lloyd Penney wrote: "The World Wide Party this year coincided with one of our regular fannish pub nights, the monthly Third Monday, and it was at its usual location, Orwell´s Pub in the west end of Toronto. Our attendance was better than usual this year (about 15 fen), and there were a lot of people new to the event. Just before 21ooh, I called everyone´s attention, and explained the reason and history of the World Wide Party. The general reaction was "cool". We all tipped a glass of beer/cider/diet Coke to the following toast...

"To fandom, to summer, to friends here, there and far away."
 

Yvonne was at home, missing our regular pub night, studying for an accounting class! Here´s her report:

"At 8:59, I took a break from accounting homework and got myself a glass of water. I went on the balcony and without hesitation raised my glass and said...

"A toast to fandom. To those who came before us...some may be gone, may you rest in peace and enjoy Heavencon, some are still here, and we honour you. To those who are in fandom, may we do honour to those before and at the same time leave behind a lasting legacy. May we also teach fans of the future what was done before us, what we are doing now, and how to continue without re-inventing the wheel. To all in Fandom, past, present and future, I raise my glass to you."  (Franz Miklis for the 1999 celebration.)