Living in Ohio, most of my wine friends I only know via the internet. We chat on Twitter and Facebook, but I rarely get to go to any of the events or Tweetups, therefore I was really excited to get to meet everyone at the Wine Blogger’s Conference.

The conference itself was everything I had hoped it would be, fun, informative, lots of great people, and most importantly never dull.

I arrived around 11 pm on June 24th and after a $124 cab ride from the airport (don’t ask) I finally got to lay down at the Marcus Whitman hotel .

While palate fatigue was a daily occurance (they had wine tables set up at 9 am) and I never did adjust to the change of time zones ( I was in bed at 10 and up at 5 am) I had so much fun. People I only got to talk to through Twitter were even better in real life. I even got fake married while I was there, but that’s another blog post entirely. Here are some of my favorite people:

Remy Charest, and David Honig

(check out all my ribbons)

Joe Roberts (1WineDude) who won blog of the year.

Melissa Dobson.Hoping to be just like her when I grow up.

Tia Butts. Love her!

Oh, were you wondering about the wines we tried? You’re going to have to wait for another post. =)