I am happy I am able to join your community for this second week of the engagement challenge. It was really nice engaging with you guys last week and I looked forward to being here again and again. So, today I will be sharing with you some of my meetings with fellow Steemians in the non-virtual world, the real world. I must say that nothing compares to the moments shared with great friends, especially when you have a lot that you share in common with these friends. I will share a few unique meetups I have enjoyed with a few Steemit friends close by, in my locality here in the City of Uyo in South-South Nigeria.

A Meetup to Brainstorm and Promote Steem

Most of the time, meetings with other Steemians are usually arranged to promote Steemit. Fortunately, I have been privileged to join many of such meetups. Below is a rare picture with other Steemians at one of such meetups, recently. The meetup afforded everyone the opportunity to share their experiences and challenges with promoting and engaging meaningfully on the Steemit platform. Many nice ideas were shared to encourage and motivate all to set personal targets and pursue them.
^{with @wizzyboy03 on the far left}

^{with @madilyn02 and @fortwiz09 on the right}

It is always a delight to meetup with these adorable Steemians. I admire their energy and motivation. I must say that it is always good to have people who show such discipline and consistency to learn from.

A Picnic to Relax with Friends

The life of a steemian is not always about making quality posts. From time to time, creating opportunities to spend quality time with friends and family is quintessential. I have had the opportunity to enjoy many such pleasant moments with fellow Steemians in my locality. It is always a major highlight coming together, not to steem, but to take away the steam from everyday hustle and relax and enjoy. Below is a rare picture of one of such meetups where we had a picnic with some dear friends and great leaders of Steemit here in the City of Uyo. It was a great fun filled evening. We ate and drank and danced and had so much fun.

^{with @ngoenyi and @eliany to the left and my sister and her friend to the right}

^{with @benton3 on the far left @ngoenyi at the center and @ddwosky and @eliany to the right}

Well, I was the camera man 🤳 so I am missing in the photo. Shooting pictures can be so much fun in itself, so I always oblige. 🥸 It was a swell time together with these great Steemians along with family and friends. The evening breeze, the camaraderie; the moment was well spent together.

A Routine Weekend Fitness Outing

As a steemian, one thing you would agree with me about is that your mental health and your physical health are your greatest assets, that is if we take your data subscription and mobile phone out of the equation. Even if we don't sef! 🤷 So it is always a big deal tending to our physical fitness and mental wellbeing. If these aspects of your health are struggling to stay in shape because you failed to carter for them, your steeming will pay the price. You will lack both the motivation to create original posts and the sanity to create quality posts. So as a person, I always try to make out time for routine exercise, even of it's once each week. So this weekend, like a lot many others, I had the opportunity to engage in physical workout with some great steemians. We went jogging, doing aerobics and some stretching. Below is a rare photo with some Steemians after a Saturday morning workout session.

^{from left to right, you can see @ubongudofot @ddwosky @eliany and @nsisong99}

Certainly, workouts are a lot more fun when engaged in with close friends and family. These adorable Steemians are always there to encourage each one to engage in routine physical exercise to keep mentally and physically fit and hale.

Conclusion

The Steemit blog is a nice place to be and interact with fellow Steemians as we read and learn from their posts, comment and upvote and interact with them. Discord, WhatsApp and Telegram also provide nice opportunities for more relaxed engagements with Steemians. But It is nice, in fact, it is a lot more pleasant to always hang out with fellow Steemians offline. Yes, arrange and meet them in person and share beautiful moments that would last a lifetime. You would be glad you did.

Thank you immensely for making the time to read my post. Hope it has inspired you to arrange a meetup with Steemians in your locality. A picnic, a sports outing, a promotional meetup, any objective would do. Just remember to have fun doing so and share your experience so others can learn. Special thanks to you the Venezuela Community for hosting this theme of the contest. Special thanks to lead curators and moderators for the hard work of supporting these engagements with their generous upvotes. Looking forward to your replies below and future engagements. I want to invite @wizzyboy3 @fortwiz09 and @ubongudofot to join this challenge.

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