Confessions of Jersey Girl

Meeting bloggers is a funny thing.  When I started blogging when I was in High School, the thought of actually meeting other people who blogged was not really something I had ever gave much thought too.  My online relationships were few and far between and I mean… who meets people from the INTERNET!?  They could be serial killers for all I know.

Right.

And then, a few years ago… there was 20sb.   It was a game changer.  It was a community.  For almost two years, I followed the lives of a handful of people, thanks to this network.  Phone numbers were exchanged, gchats were had, texts were sent, skype conversations were a regular event.  It never really entered my mind that I hadn’t met these people face to face.  I count may of these people as some of my best friends.

And then Vegas happened.   Then there was Chicago and NYC.  There were sleepovers in Cali and Minnesota.  Now, there was Philadelphia too.

Down here in the wonderful Southern most point of New Jersey… it’s not exactly a very social media savvy environment.  Sure, there’s always NYC, but that’s over three hours from where I am.  Anyway, Thursday I headed up to Philadelphia to meet up with Jess (!!!!!), Caity, Katie and Rachael.  I had already met Katie before in NYC, but the rest of these lovely ladies?  Not so much.  I was beyond excited to get into the city and see them!

After a little confusion getting to the PATCO station, I met up with Katie and we were on our way.  It was a gorgeous day on Thursday, probably almost 60 degrees out.  We wandered around the city snapping pictures and having fun, and then we met up with Jess!  Seriously, I was so excited to see this girls face.   I helped her start her blog a little over a year ago, and I just adore her.  It was insane to me to think that we had never actually met, but when we did?  It was so normal.  Like we were already awesome friends that hung out every night.

Soon after, we met up with Rachael and spent some time goofing off in Love Park and getting on the Discoery Channel.  FYI, we’re going to be famous.  As it turns out the Discovery Channel was shooting a show on realtionships of all kinds and were were filmed being goofy and singing underneath the Love sculpture.  It was an absolutel blast and it’s been a LONG time since i’ve laughed that hard.

We met up with Caity at Osteria for dinner where we proceeded to put ourselves in a cheese coma.  Well, all of us except Jess… but we’ll let her slide.  We had mozzerella en carozza, which we decided is like french toast (watch for a blog post on how to make this.  INSANELY easy and oh my god, so good) and the best pizza EVER.  Seriously.  Yum.  We all talked and laughed and just had the best night ever.  I seriously needed a girls night after the past month.  Towards the end of dinner, it was decided that this was going to be a monthly event, and I couldn’t be more excited.

Our next meetup / girls night will be February 25th in Philly.  If you’re in the area, come join us!!