I had a great time in Kentucky. From the minute Brad picked me up at the airport, I enjoyed myself. When I saw him, it was like we had never not ever seen each other before. I got lots of hugs from him and Liz and, really, lots of hugs all weekend from everyone!

There was lots of drinking, eating, karoake-ing, drinking, eating, dancing and did I mention drinking? And talking. Lots and lots of talking and hugging and meeting and greeting. It was really a lot of fun. Saturday afternoon, Lynda and I went shopping for a ring for her. She likes to get a ring from every place that she travels. We found 2. We enjoyed ourselves, too.

There were 4 different kinds of people there.

• There were those who I knew from blogging and had met face to face before.
• There were those whom I knew from blogging but had never touched skin with before.
• There were those that I sort of knew or knew of but had never really met online or off before.
• Finally, there were those that I never knew online or off.

Some of the people I met this weekend, whatever group they fell into, touched my heart in a special way. I’m not going to name names because I don’t want to hurt feelings. I think that they know who they are anyway. There were at least a couple people who weren’t there whose presence was greatly missed. At the very least, by me. There was not one single I met that I didn’t like. Maybe a couple who didn’t like me, but no one that I didn’t like. Any single one of the people I met this weekend would be invited to my house in a heart beat. I would be honored to have them all visit. They just need to let me know a couple weeks in advance so I can clean the house. And, yes, it would take that long.

Thank you, Brad and Liz for opening your house to us. You were awesome hosts. I couldn’t hope for a better brother and sister-in-law. I can’t wait to see you again and for you to at least meet my husband. Liz, you’re a fantastic cook. I think I gained 10 pounds. We’ll see on Saturday.

I’m just going to give you a link to my ConFab, Baby! Flickr collection instead of posting them here for a few reasons–it’s easier, those who want to see, can, and it won’t take those who have dial-up forever to load this page. So here’s the link.

Sorry it took me so long to post about this. I got home late and then had technology problems. Monday was a crazy day and I had some more technology issues with Flickr to deal with and by the time that was all done I was too exhausted and went to bed. It wasn’t because I didn’t have an awesome time. I did. I also needed to ruminate (great word, huh?) on it for awhile. It was just one of those things, y’know?

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