rain on tulips

I feel so bad because I went and met up with a bunch of great, fun bloggy ladies on Saturday, and had a wonderful lunch with fantastic company… but I had to leave early to get ready to head to Grandpa J’s funeral, so I missed out on all the post-lunch fun, and also the picture sharing.

However, the other ladies there did such a wonderful job re-capping, that maybe I can just leave it to them, and promise to do justice to the next one — spaghetti sleepover, anyone???

Millie played the wonderful hostess/coordinator, and shared the stories of the odd looks for her cardboard sign in Sheepish in Seattle.

The Daring One shared her take of the day — belly laughs included, in Bloggers Get Hungry Too. I blush every time she gets to me… mostly because how weird that I make that impression!

Jenny covered it all in How I ended up on the Seattle waterfront with a lady holding a cardboard sign that says “What on earth is that smell?”.

Kimberly shared a great photo with numbers and names* in I’m Number One!

Annie told about her entire trip across country which precipitated the bloggy lunch thing in Turning MOLF’s into IRLF’s.

Carronin (Annie’s “sister in crime”!) covered the trip in Meeting NCS and Millie IRL.

No Cool Story (or, she who must not be shown in any photo!!) talked about her lunch and her entire weekend in Veni, Vidi, Blog! and Great NW Adventure.

CarrotJello shared her point of view — with no pictures! — in Oh, hi there…. and Don’t hold yer breath….. She’s due to have her baby any time now — well, on Friday (smart girl, planning it all!) — and she looked wonderful! (I would have been grumping around and complaining to anyone who’d listen if I were 10 months pregnant!)

An Ordinary Mom shared in Bloggers Unplugged.

And Eve, who posted in This One’s for the Girls about the UPCOMING bloggy lunch, may be the only one besides me who hadn’t posted a real update! I’m sure hers will be a little better than my linky-thing here! But she was a lot of fun to sit across from, and any time she’d like to come clean my kitchen, well… *coughcough*

So, all in all, I had a great time (I did get over being nervous, Millie!), met a lot of really fun ladies — many of whom live within reasonable drive times from me! — and only pouted for a little while about missing waffle cones!**

So. When’s the next one!? (she asked hopefully!) And next time I promise to not pretend to have a ‘real life’ to interrupt in the middle of the fun!

*That I missed out on — waahhhh! — because of that ‘real life’ interrupting mentioned earlier!
**Found out later that everyone missed out on those, since the ice cream place ran out of waffle cones — oh, the tragedy!