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* I posted this on my blog when I got back and figured I could share it here too, enjoy!*
So BlogHer '08. I don't really even know where to begin. In a word however: Awesome. I mean seriously, awesome.
Now I don't want to bore you to tears with everything that happened and hell I did start to post about it on Friday, but you know me, I can't really keep it short, so here goes, long post ahead:
Thursday:
So I got to fly Virgin America Airlines, ever been on them? Amazing.
There are black lights and your own personal television and the nicest
crew ever, I mean really. It was so cool. So after a relaxing flight
(and watching SVU) I hopped in a cab and made it to the hotel. The hotel that had a sweet bed, big TV and a bathrobe (heaaaaaaven)!
I want that TV!
Basically a sweet start to the weekend. After that I grabbed some dinner with the oh so lovely Jamie (haha I'm hilarious), Vanessa and Jenn
at a lovely little diner (with the sloooowest service ever). Anyhoo,
after that we headed to the newbie party where I got to meet some of my
faves (Nanette, Ashley, Emily, Katie and Missy) and meet some new faves like Jessica, her coworker Theresa, and Sizzle.
the newbie party
me, Jamie and Jenn, woo!
Basically between the newbie party and the People's Party it was a great way to kick off the weekend.
Friday: Woke up bright and early to grab breakfast, mosey the exhibitors booths and listen to the morning speakers.
Went
to some sessions, met some schnazzy people and overall had a pretty
good time. And to top it off, I was selected to go to a special lunch
with chef Rocco DiSpirito (holla). I kind of sort of felt like I had to
go since Bertolli was one of my campaigns a couple months ago and
featured all sorts of Rocco videos. The lunch was so fun (and pretty
entertaining, read: lots of women swooning over Rocco, haha).
Got to try out some new sauces, yummmm
Rocco cooking away
me and the man of the hour
He
was super nice and very into answering questions and cooking tips, heck
we even got one of his cookbooks afterwards. After the lunch I went to
more sessions, hung out with fabulous bloggers and got some swag. At
the end of the night there were some bloggers that got to read some of
their posts that got selected and man were they awesome. Some were
completely moving while others had us laughing to tears, I thought it
was such a great idea and so fun to listen to.
After all the
keynoteness there was a partay sponsored by TNT at Ruby Skye which was
awesome. Got some tasty food, saw some TNT stars, free drinks and some
great blogger dancing, basically: fabulous.
these girls are awesome
seriously, awesome
my partners in crime for the night :)
Saturday:
Basically another day of fabulous sessions, meeting new peeps, and
picking up more swag. All the awesome stuff came at night. The closing
keynote speakers of the night were the oh so fabulous Heather Armstrong
of Dooce fame and Stephanie Klein of Greek Tragedy. Both women were
