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This weekend was all kinds of ridiculous and amazing. I really don’t know where to start. Don’t people usually start at the beginning? I guess we will start there.

After a long flight which was 4ish hours, but felt like 10 because of the Incredible Farting Woman next to usÂ who was obviously punishing us (us being Jenn and myself) for something and the screeching banshees (children) in front of us, we finally landed in Oakland. Jenn’s friend Colin picked us up and brought us around to our hotel, the Hotel Carlton. It was absolutely adorable! A small boutique (and green!) hotel with pinstriped walls, lovely furniture and super friendly staff that was about 5 blocks away from the Westin where BlogHer was being held. They did give us unopenable wine though. That was not fair and another story to come. I would definitely stay there again though if I end up in San Francisco in the future.

Vanessa stayed with us Thursday night and while Jenn was out seeing the sights, we decided we were freaking starving and needed food. Food that was not the itsy bitsy pretzels that Southwest so generously gave us on the flight. Jenn was going to meet up with us later and we were off in search of Katelin and food! We settled on Lori’s 50’s Diner which blew because we sat for like 20 minutes and were not even acknowledged once. Everytime we needed something, we had to practically pounce on our waitress. And why there are two of that place in a two block vicinity of each other, I do not know, but Jenn finally caught up after a ridiculously confusing phone call that went something like this:

Jenn: I’m in here!

Jamie: No, you aren’t.

Jenn: YES, I am. Where are you?

Jamie: At the bottom of the stairs!!

Jenn: Wait…there are no stairs….god dammit

Then since we were all n00bs to BlogHer, we headed to the Newbie Mixer where there was open bar. Now let me tell you, I only needed one drink because my cranberry vodka was 85% vodka and only an teeeeensy bit cranberry. Open bar was not necessary, I would have been on my ass had I had another. Business card here, photo there, lots of hugs all around. Finally met Sizzle, Missy and Lara that night. Ran into another of Chicago’s Finest, Jessica and her friend/co-worker Theresa. We party hopped between the Mixer and People’s Party. By the time we got to the People’s Party, it had been ravaged. I magically aquired the first of many swag bag’s since there were none left.

And oh, that was just the beginning…

(view from our hotel window)

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I love San Fransisco! I am so jealous you got to go out there. I would love to do that! I hope your trip was fantastic! Can’t wait to hear more…

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seriously chicago and la should be a whole lot closer, i had so much fun this weekend

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OOoooh hurry up and keep posting!!

This is so fun to read about.

It makes me want to be able to leave, too.

No fair.

Ew. Farting woman. Gross.
Yay for BlogHer though. And yay for S.F. [i love 2 hrs south and am in love with the city]. Can’t wait for part 2! Sounds like fun so far…

I love hearing about everyone’s Blogher experiences…I wait in twitching suspense!!

It was absolutely awesome to finally meet you! Thanks again for sharing your room, cookies are on the way. BlogHer went by way too fast and I think a trip to Chicago is in order because I can’t wait a whole year to see you again!

loved finally meeting you! i’m glad you had a good time, because i totally loved the entire experience.

Seriously….TWO Loris!? That’s stupid. I miss BlogHer

My favorite part of BlogHer (having never actually gone) is reading the stories on the Monday after but I have to tell you that yours is the first one posted that I’ve seen. Bunch of slackers! I want details!

I’ll look forward to the rest of the story – hey you should get a whole week worth of blogging out of this.

i’ve been waiting for everyone’s recaps!!!

snaps for you and jenn both for being to withstand the farting woman AND screaming kids?! i would’ve highly considered just sitting in the airplane bathroom for the duration.

can’t wait for part 2!

awe, it sounds so fun already.

clearly i’m anxiously awaiting part 2. (and 3 and 4?)

=) ox.

More. More. More. Please. Please. Please!

And what exactly makes a hotel green?

It sounds like so much fun so far (despite Farty/the banshee)! Can’t wait to hear the rest. And I wanna go next year….

It looks and sounds like y’all had a lot of fun! And the hotel room was totally cute, too!

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It was so great to meet you!

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