Last night, I ventured out to the Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash with three of my friends, and fellow bloggers. Amy, from Crunchy Domestic Goddess, Melissa from Nature Deva, and Julie from ChezArtz.
Amy, Melissa, Julie, and I were all friends before we were bloggers, so this was a great chance to catch up with each other, mingle with other bloggers, and watch the Obama speech. We took the bus downtown, which is the first time I have ever taken public transportation anywhere. I’m glad Amy’s husband, and Melissa could figure out bus schedules!
We arrived at the bash a few minutes before the speech started, and I met Amber from Mile High Mama’s in person. I was a guest blogger there in June, so it was wonderful to meet her!
When it was time for the speech to start we all crammed in a room to watch. I am not a big political person, but Sen. Obama gave a terrific speech. It was very interesting to hear his thoughts and ideas. He had some great humor in there too, and I think this was probably one of the best speech deliveries I have ever heard in my lifetime-so far.
After the speech was over, we took pictures, ate, and visited with more bloggers and some company representatives. I was really happy to meet Tara from Lijit, who’s search feature I have on my blog. She gave us the only bling from the night, a Lijit T-shirt, so thanks Tara!
I met some local bloggers who I have talked with on Twitter before, such as Crunchy Green Mom, and met bloggers I was not aware of (but are now) such as Laura from LaLaGirl (a mother of five, who has TWO sets of twins!)
We also met the husband and wife bloggers behind My Left Nutmeg, who were chosen as the ONE political blog from the state of Connecticut to blog at the Convention. Julie and I left a guest post on their blog, and Tessa, let us use her laptop to check in on Twitter.
We didn’t want to go home, but we didn’t want to miss the last bus back to the suburbs, so we left a little before midnight. The bus we wanted to take was packed, so we waited about 15 minutes to take another one. We at least had a seat on this bus, but it made a lot of stops. After driving back from the bus station, and then back to our town, it was 1:30am!
I had a lot of fun though, and it was wonderful getting to go out for a night (thanks Joe!), with my friends, and being able to make some new friends as well.
I forgot my camera, but Amy e-mailed me the pictures that she took, so here are some shots from last night:
Melissa, myself, Julie & Amy
Amy checking in on Twitter (that’s Tessa in the background from My Left Nutmeg taking the picture)
Writing my guest post on My Left Nutmeg
The three ladies at the top are Amber, Lilith, and Laura.
P.S. If you are a regular blog reader of mine, then you may have picked up on something that I never have done before on my blog, but did in this post. Can you guess what it is? Leave me a comment or e-mail me. I’ll give a special shout-out to you if you noticed what it is. 🙂