Blissdom 2011 Part 1

Y'all know I went. And man alive, did I have a great time. Words cannot describe how amazing this weekend was. It was worth the 12 hours of sleep that I got over 3 days. I met so many amazing people. Heard so many inspiring stories. It was unreal. 

I would be lying if I said I wasn't scared to death and feeling incredibly awkward- which isn't something I normally feel- on Wednesday night. I had no idea who anyone was and was terrified to just walk up to a complete stranger. 

Thank God for roomies!! 

They let you have fun with fake horses. 

Molly had a crazy drive in and I was worried she was going to turn around and head back to D.C. from the snow storm. She got in around 12:15 a.m. I will never say she doesn't love us! 

Apparently pajamas aren't the dress code for the Magnolia Lobby at 12:30 in the morning because I had more than a few comments about them when I went down to meet her. 

We got up pretty early the next day to ready ourselves for the Opening Key Note and our first workshop. 

Table 32 rocked it up!!

BelleBeanDog videoed the opening key note. I get chills watching it again but I honestly think you would need to be there to appreciate the awesomeness of it. I was honestly very close to tears through most of the opening key note because it was so incredible. 

Me and Natalie. Something I have learned this week. I need a flash for my camera. Seriously. In a bad way.

Molly and Neely

Peeps coming to find seats. 

 That afternoon we went to Innovative Writing Techniques and got to listen to some amazing bloggers talk.
 

 Let's talk about my love/hate relationship with the iPad. Hubs has one. He loves it. He insisted on buying me a few books for it in the beginning, but it was honestly too much trouble to fight him for the iPad. I tried to blog with it. It's not that great for that. So, I wrote it off. Since I love blogging and all and anything that isn't kosher with it, I write it off. But, John bought me a new book on it last week so I starting thinking about how awesome it would be to be able to take it to Blissdom. And I sweet talked him into it. And let me say, while, it still isn't kosher for blogging, I really do love the iPad now. I might possibly need my own.
 


Stay tuned for Part 2....