Katrina Carefoot, Mabel BlogHer correspondent, from Fickle Feline, will be blogging throughout BlogHer ’09 about her experience in Chicago. For updates by the minute, follow her on twitter!
Eight hours door-to-door from Toronto to Chicago. Not bad, right? I suppose so, if you were driving! But Julie and I were flying, with her 12 week old baby boy Finian at that! After circling above Chicago for 30 minutes due to a crazy rain, our little pond jumper plane needed to refuel so we diverted to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Lucky for Julie and myself (and all the other passengers), Fin was an angel baby, and kept his cool. As the minutes ticked by, we texted like mad with our BlogHer counterparts already in Chicago and let them know that we were going to miss (BIG SIGH) the SocialLuxe party. I am still recovering from missing this event (and don’t even talk to me about the swag we missed out on).
Once we landed, it was fairly smooth sailing to the hotel. Except that President Obama is in town (maybe Michelle will speak at BlogHER?!) so traffic was a nightmare. When we arrived, Fin was starting to fuss (I didn’t blame him, I was tired and hungry too), so we dumped our stuff and found food and “beverages”. I somehow managed to be late to all of the parties (People’s Party and Room 704 Party) so I continued to miss out on the awesome swag getting doled out! I need to get on top of my game! I did get to meet some of my favourite bloggers, Cecily, Deb, Lotus, and Heather, all on the first night, so that was a real thrill. And of course, I met a bunch of other awesome ladies who I will now be reading up on.
What’s in store for today? Breakfast and lots of coffee first, then sessions all day! I think I’m going to check out:
Room of Your Own 1: Realllly Personal Blogging – How much info is TMI?
Room of Your Own 2: Blogs & Body Image: What are we teaching our kids?
Identity/Passions: PatientBloggers – You Are Not Your Disease, You Just Blog About It Every Day
Time to go – the ladies of BlogHer await!
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Great post kat, a nice dispatch altogether! Although, nothing like a 1 hour flight turning into an 8 hour day. What gives?
I know! It was supposed to be a simple up and down flight. Turned into a mini marathon.