Sunday Hubby and I were booked in to go to the Hello Blogger Events lunch. The finally meet up for 2011. And wow, what an amazing year of meeting new friends it has been. At a tough moment in our lives where we don’t have a lot of friends around us, meeting bloggers and being welcomed into their lives has been wonderful. Short version, I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

It turned out that at the last minute Danielle had to pull out and we had been delegated host duties. Happy to help, but nervous {this was a pretty big, casual event}. Dani said pack labels, find the right venue and don’t be late. We managed to do all of that. And than we sat and waited.

The great pens and offending labels.

The first to arrive were Tonya and Belinda. First to attempt to label themselves, we found that the labels had no stick. Apparently they were MUCH older than they looked. Fail. But moving on, soon we had our two tables spilling over with bloggers, bellies full of pizza and the day had turned from sunny and hot to raining and muggy. Ahh Brisbane.

A raging success. I had an awesome time catching up with old friends {though a few were noticeably absent. Sad face}. I met and got to chat with some new faces. I LOVE that. And soon Hubby and I were in the car, whizzing our way to Garden City for a bit of retail therapy. But more on THAT later.