Blissdom Travel Pictures

My one-line review of Blissdom: I didn’t love it.

I enjoyed it, mostly, but I didn’t come away feeling totally inspired the way I did after BlogHer last year. Judging by the tweets on the #Blissdom hash tag, I was one of the few who felt that way.

I think it was a combination of things – it turned out to be a bad time to travel for all sorts of reasons, which made it hard to enjoy the conference. But I didn’t love the speakers. And I just didn’t get the same vibe. Maybe that’s the difference between an event with 700 people and one with 4,000. Or maybe it’s because I went into BlogHer totally ready to be fired up and feeling alive because of what I was doing in this space at the time, which I don’t feel at all right now. In any case, I’m glad I went but I’m not sure it will be on my list for next year.

Things I did love:

Rooming with Mama Track and Baby Track. Natalie was awesome and that baby is just so unbelievably, squishily cute. I could hardly stand it.
Meeting some bloggers I really wanted to meet. Angela was an absolute dream and someone I’m really glad I got a chance to meet. Mary Lauren was awesome – way more outgoing than I expected from her blog and we had a great time talking (and wondering why the heck Joe Jonas was performing at an event full of women in their 30s and 40s) at the party on the first night. I met lots of others too – Dana, Kimberly, Carri, Doc G, Amber, Greta, Shell, and was really, really glad to see Jessica and Frelle and Katherine and Shannon again. I didn’t spend nearly enough time talking to some of them, but it was great to see those faces and get hugs again.
The hotel. Just, wow. It’s incredible. Seriously – check out their photo gallery.

One thing I didn’t do is take pictures of people or the hotel, both of which I intended to do. But I did take pictures from the air on the flight down. (I know, I’m a travel geek.)

So I’ll leave you with these, which are better than whatever words I have right now.

Heading out – Alberta from the air