#Vegas2013

I think I’m finally caught up on sleep after the Sin City shenanigans and blogger meetup this week!! This was my second year attending the event and I was so excited to spend the whole trip hanging out with a bunch of ladies that have grown to be such good friends of mine over the past year!

I arrived on Monday and met up with one of my roomies, Kelley (Teacher Idea Factory) at the airport. We met for the first time in Vegas last year and this year. I absolutely LOVE this girl!! Over the past year she’s gone from being one of my favorite bloggers to one of my favorite friends and I was so looking forward to hanging out again during the trip! Our other roomie was our friend Melissa!! (She’s one 1/2 of  Lesson Plan SOS ) She’s a total sweetheart who keeps it real and I was looking forward to spending more than just an evening with her this year! The three of us chatted it up for about half an hour in the airport before finally deciding, perhaps we should make our way to our glorious 1,200 sq. ft. suite at the Venitian….

                                 {I may or may not have almost knocked that entire Queen Of The Desert display over. Thanks for looking our Melissa!! Haha!}

But not before we made a pit-spot for lunch at I <3 Burgers. I did indeed HEART me one of their big delicious burgers along with their dessert worthy sweet potato and cinnamon fries!

I was a little in awe of our room. Just imagine, three girls and ALL their STUFF rooming together with so much space we could each occupy our own little section of the room with plenty of space left over. There was even a color printer in the room. Don’t think we didn’t contemplate prepping a unit or two 😉

We quickly decided that a day at the pool in a private cabana was a MUST – so bright and early the next morning we headed down to claim our little slice of poolside heaven for the day! We were joined by some more sweet friends that we’d been itchin to hang out with – Kristen (A Teeny Tiny Teacher)  Hadar (Miss Kindergarten) and Christy (Crayons and Whimsy). Kelley and I had met Hadar for dinner once a few months ago, but it was so much more fun getting to spend a whole day hanging out with her! Kristen is just as adorable and fun in real life as she is on her blog. After talking for months online it was SO NICE to be able to hang out in person!! They introduced us to Christy who is also a California blogger (Melissa and I were totally outnumbered by these Cali gals) and she is the real deal yall, you gotta check out her blog! We talked, snacked, swam, and soaked up the sun  all. day. long. 

We met up with another mutual friend, Tanja (Journey of a Substitute Teacher), before heading over to the meetup. Yup, big hugs all around when this lady joined up with us!

                                                                    I adore these girls!!

 

 We also got to meet Amy and John from TPT!! I can’t tell you how awesome I thought it was that they flew in from NY for this event. Like I told John that night, TPT is by nature an online business, so it’s really nice to be able to shake hands with them in person and just say THANK YOU for brining this blessing that is TPT into so many lives! They went out of their way to connect with members of the TPT community which makes me even more proud to be part of the outstanding organization!!

A big thank you to the uber talented photographer Natalie from What The Teacher Wants who snapped some of amazing photos from the event and was willing to share!!