Gettting Ready to retreat

After sending off the skirt sloper, it's time for me to gather my things together for the Quilt-Sterne retreat this weekend. The Quilt-Sterne is an online group of quilters, primarily from Germany, who meet in a Yahoo group. Link is here.
It's a fun group, with almost 1500 members.
The retreat (or das Treffen in German) is at the Haus auf der Alb hotel/conference center in Bad Urach, not too far away from my home. It's an architectural gem, so check it out sometime. Haus auf der Alb link.
The leaders have organized a number of workshops, so I'll be learning how to decorate a crazy quilt block, and how to machine sew a feather quilting pattern, for example.
There will also be plenty of time for working on my Tokyo subway project - I have fantasies of finishing the top this weekend. We'll see.
DH will be holding down the home front this weekend, but he will drive me down to Bad Urach, so I have a helper to carry things in and out. 
I'll try to add a couple of photos to this link later today, so you can see my preparations, especially the crazy block I've prepared for the workshop.