So, on Friday, I did that whole crazy thing of actually meeting someone from the internet.
Let me start from the beginning. . . (which sounds like this will be a long story, but it’s not, I promise!)
Allison from The Book Wheel won the Liebster Award the other day. While reading her post, I noticed we had a lot of similarities, like both of us have rescue dogs. Allison’s from Gainesville and is a Gator, and I said I was a Seminole, and we figured out that she went to FSU for a year a few years before me, and then she moved to Boston.
Coincidentally, Boston is my next move for mid Jan-March, but when I asked Allison about it, she had just, last week, moved to Denver!
I mean, come on, that’s a crazy coincidence considering I’m in Denver until mid January.
We became Facebook friends and realized that while we don’t have mutual friends, we have mutual mutual friends. This was extremely helpful in convincing myself (and my husband) that Allison wasn’t some 40-year-old man or a catfish.
Allison and I met up in downtown Denver and spent a couple hours chatting over coffee (so long, in fact, that we totally forgot to eat lunch). We spent the rest of the day wandering around, checking out the Denver Public Library and some of the downtown area.
We enjoyed our time together so much we went to dinner, too!!!!
Meeting up with Allison was awesome because not only does she enjoy reading the same books I like, but she also understands the blogging world.
Another great thing about meeting Allison from The Book Wheel was that I liked her as a person, and made a good friend in real life.
Want to hear Allison’s take? Click here!
Thanks for reading,
What great luck to be in the same city for a few more weeks! I’ve had a few opportunities to meet people I’ve met online. I understand the safety concern but every one of my meetups has been terrific.
I think if you meet in a public place, and the person has an established blog with many followers, the odds are in your favor!
At least that is how you rationalized meeting me!
Very true!!!!!
This is wonderful!
Great!!
It’s wonderful to find people you think you can be friends and discover that, indeed, you can be friends!
I have been blogging for 4 years and 2 years ago I went to Madrid to meet some of the bloggers: a lot of people from other cities travelled to Madrid and we spent the whole day together; it was wonderful and I made a lot of friends (I consider them my friends).
We are thinking of doing it again this year
So what a luck Allison wasn’t a man!! heheeee
I also thought about “the danger” that kind of things have, but well, I think as an adult, you can really search for a little bit of information and find out if it’s a liar or not (I want to believe that).
Isi,
One of the things we did was meet in a public place and become Facebook friends. Some people do put fake info out there but it’s harder when you have hundreds of FB friends (with some mutual mutual friends too) to fake it.
It’s nice because now Allison and I are REAL friends as well as blog friends!
That’s so great that you went to Madrid to meet people! How fun and how lucky!!!
How nice for both of you! The world surely is full of serendipity, and it’s amazing when we come across it.
Thanks, Kendra!
I had so much fun meeting you! I wish you weren’t leaving but I am looking forward to Wednesday!
I know. . . but I’ll see you Wed for sure, maybe tonight even, and then we’ll howl with the wolves next week!
I am SO EXCITED about the wolves!
She still agreed to meet and be friends after you said you were a seminole?
Hahahahaha! You’re too funny. And I might be offended if we weren’t bridesmaids at each other’s weddings!
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great, this is wonderful..how nice for both of you!!
Thanks!!! It was a nice treat!
Yay! So happy for you two! Am I also a smidge jealous? Yes!
It’s great to see a picture, thanks for sharing!
We did talk about you while we were meeting! We said you post so much we have no idea how you find the time (and it seems we might be a little jealous of that)!
So you were with us in spirit!!!!!
Wow! This is cool. Now, if I only live near your place… haha! I hope you and Devin will try vacationing here in the Philippines. We can also grab for a meet and greet with some tea
Haha! If Devin and I end up in the Philippines, I promise you will be one of the first to know!
Yay! I’ll glad to tour you.