Happily the 2nd Annual Blogger Ball went off without a hitch. Everyone came, and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Of course how could you
not when Embassy Suites pulled out all the stops. I was thrilled how my vision for the room decor came together as a backdrop the amazing food and cocktails. A huge roast beef carving station, desserts, veggies, fruits….all of it. Top notch. And working with the team at Embassy Suites was so easy. You give them an idea and they run with it. Paying excellent attention to details (like adding our BlogCrush logo to all of the smallest elements in the room) and having an excellent audio-tech team to arrange for the dual screens for video and twitter fall simultaneously. I want to thank Sharon Garofalow for working the check-in desk for me, and Marci Taylor for taking all of these photos. As usual I discovered it is really very hard to be in more than one place at a time. And those two ladies took that burden off.
The raffle was exciting and Tracey Clark won the much coveted iPad donated by the superior sponsor Atwater Clothing. And then in a cool turn of events the Atwater guy (Mike Elias) won the other big prize of the night; the original artwork by Lisa Mertins. But lots of other prizes were given out, donated by many wonderful sponsors and all were greatly appreciated. Including lots of wonderful small giveaways like gift cards and coupons to everyone in attendance (thanks to Snapfish ,Fresh&Easy and Smith&Vandiver). But without a doubt the greatest part of the evening was being on stage and having a captive 
audience listen to me was seeing all my friends and fellow members of the blogfia. I love my blogging community. All such interesting people, smart, clever and full of energy. And I love being part of bringing those people together for this one night. I could look around the room and see new friendships forming…and that is just awesome. Especially since my own closest friends are those I didn’t know before I started this journey into the internet obsession career path a few years ago.
This is my tribe.
These are my people.
Me, Suzanne (my BlogCrush Co-Founder) & Lisa (together we are The Three Disneyland Moms)
Were you there? Did you write a post? (I hope you do!) Please leave the link on the BlogCrush Facebook page!
And also, add your photos there too so we can untag ourselves from the ones we don’t like and then beg you to take down before anyone sees them so we can all enjoy them!
My friend Modchick has a flickr set of photos from the night here.
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I had such a great time! I didnt get to say hello to you but you did a great job MC’ing the whole thing :)
thank you thank you thank you.
It was a wonderful night all thanks to you girlfriend. Thank you for working so hard to make everyone feel special.
Great Post!
Smooches – K
awww, i’m so bummed to have missed it but at least i’m proud sponsor marcy!
Looks well-planned and attended by fun and interesting people. I would expect nothing less from you. : )
What beautiful shots — I wonder who took them ;) Seriously – thanks for an awesome time and for letting me snap away with your awesome camera!
Next year I’ll be in the 12th grade and I’ll get to go to the prom…finally! ;-) It looks like it was so much fun. I really do want to go next year!
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