Well, here we are. The final recap of Blend. It’s also the saddest, because we all had to say goodbye!
Sunday started out with another boot camp, held by Tiffany Vandemark. I was super tired and definitely slacking, but it felt good to get moving before a long day of traveling. We split into groups and did 7 different stations.
Speed skaters! Woo!
Afterwards, we had breakfast sponsored by Chobani.
I had coffee & a little bit of everything!
We were all so sad to be having our last breakfast together!
Alyssa, Courtney, Heather, Katie, Laura, Ashley, me, and Tina
Janetha, Katie, & Lindsay held a raffle.
I ended up winning a super awesome prize!
$50 gift card to Bob’s Red Mill whaaaaat!
We all said our goodbyes and headed on our way.
It was so nice meeting you (Julie, above, and Laura, below)!
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When we arrived at the airport, I had lunch with Heather, Tina, Laura, Courtney, & Alyssa before heading our own ways. Well, I had a liquid lunch. Bloody Mary!
My stomach was off so I thought maybe the tomato juice would do something. Tomato juice and vodka. Yeah, great remedy Jill. Eventually I grabbed myself a (not good at all) brown rice, veggie, & tofu bowl from some random place in the airport.
Followed by TCBY! I got honey greek yogurt & white chocolate mousse with sprinkles and peanut butter cups.
And eventually settled in my gate where I waited for 3 hours for my flight. Ugh!
I boarded around 5:00 pm and enjoyed a Simply Bar before trying to doze off for the entire flight and not have any success.
Love the stats!
I had a window seat, which I never choose but because my flight was moved, I ended up with one.
How pretty are those clouds during sunset?
I must say thank you again to Janetha, Katie, & Lindsay for hosting such a wonderful weekend! I am truly inspired by all of you and absolutely cannot wait until Blend 2013!
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The Blend Retreat looks like it was so much fun! It didn’t work out with me this year in terms of timing, but I am definitely going next year after reading your recap. I love that it’s a smaller group too – a lot of these blogger conferences are getting to be so huge, so it’s nice to see there are smaller ones popping up!
Yes it was great having a smaller group! I felt like I got to talk to/get to know everybody!
It was sooooo nice to meet you too! I’m glad we got to spend out last moment together in the airport with bloodys and yogurt.
I know! I’m so glad we got to chat a bit! Blend was not nearly long enough – let’s rally for 1 week next year! haha!
It sounds like everyone had such a great time, I wish I could have gone! Hopefully next year
The stats on that Simply Bar are amazing! 3 grams of sugar?!?! I definitely need to pick one up next time I go to the store!
So jealous of your Bob’s Red Mill win, that is awesome! It looks like such a blast
A gift card from Bob’s is seriously awesome. I’m becoming obsessed with his TVP – they are awesome in veggie burgers.
I always see that in grocery store and I never knew how to use it! I may have to give that a try!
Just look on the package. There is an awesome recipe for red beans and TVP rice. You can’t even tell that you’re eating soy protein.
Ooooo! I will probably buy that with my gift card!
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