Bloggy Friends All Round

It's been so great getting to hang out with Widge all weekend (and show her the reality of our Sunday morning Zoo). I dropped her at the airport an hour ago and right now she is winging her way South, back to her family and Earthquake Country. Sigh. Gee it was cool having her. (And oops she nearly missed her flight. We were shopping...)

Just as it has been great the other times I've met my other blog-friends in real life.

PaisleyJade, Weza Anya Gail and Me for bloggy coffee in "Wackworth" (as Widge called it; tee hee). Surreal.

Lunch at the PaisleyJade house with all the family. A wonderful fun-filled riot.

Dinner with Weza and Anya's families in Brisbane. Superb.

Lyns and LynMarie and co at My Tea Party.

And now... A Weekend with Widgey.

Plus, I just can't overstate how great it is to have blog-links with Real Life friends, like Gail, Meg and Sammy. Weekends away take on a whole new meaning, when you are both photographing every little detail. then there's the ones who move away. We are broken hearted and bereft, but consoled by being able to follow these precious friends all over the world, and keep sharing their lives. Like Sophie. And Amy.

Meeting blog friends in real life is strange and normal at the same time.

It's like a favourite picture book come to life. In 3D. With sound effects.

Familiar... and yet... not.

But never disappointing.

The reality has always been at least as good as the blog.

In my experience anyway.

 

Widge and I spent quite a bit of time raving on about how amazingly normal it felt to be hanging out together. Like, we already knew each other but had just not yet met.

We agreed that we now understand all those internet romances. Really. It's just not that wierd anymore.
Blog freinds once met, translate quickly into Real friends.

I have blog friends all over the country. All over the world.

A world of friends waiting to be met. A world of places waiting to be visited.

There was talk of a roadtrip to Christchurch in summer. We'll bring our tent.
We could stop off on the way along SH1... Taupo? Wellington? Picton? Any takers?? (You'll need to be prepared for a bunch of crazies though.)

And Cat. Dear dear Cat. Cat, who I wish could add comments to her blog. Cat, the leaver of "Love and Light". Somehow our thoughts kept turning to this gorgeous blog-friend as-yet unmet, but treasured by both of us. We found ourselves imagining how cool it would be for all of us to be having coffee with our little Canadian friend. One Day, Cat promises us. We really hope so. Cat you will find a huge welcome here in NZ for you and yours (OK, tears pricking my eyes now).

Before I get too too soppy, I am taking up a challenge that Sammy gave me, this morning as we had coffee at Starbucks before church. (Eeeeeh! Widge got to come to my church!! Eeeeehhh!) Sammy said, why don't we make a way to link up our stories about meeting our "blog friends" in real life??!!

Let's link up our bloggy-friend stories.

Have you met up with a blog-friend in real lfe? Have you posted about it? Lets hook up!!

I'm creating a Bloghop so we can easily find each other. And I've made a Blog-Friends button.

If you want to join in, here's what you can do...

To make all the links available on your own blog:

• Copy the blog hop code and paste it into a post you have done about meeting another blogger in Real Life. (you have to paste it into "html" view in your post editor for it to work)
• Link up your post to the blog hop.

Or if you don't want to add the bloghop code you can just link up here. I will leave the button with linky in my sidebar so you can add to it whenever you wish

If you want to have it in your sidebar permanently for others to find do this:

• Copy the button graphic (right-click) and save it to your computer.
• Create a new sidebar picture widget, and upload the button graphic to it.
• Paste the URL address of your bloggy meeting post into the URL box.
• Click "save".

And whenever you meet up with a blogger in real life, link up the new post!

Ahhh just a bit of fun.

Waddya reckon?

I'll go first.

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1. Lunch with Family PJ 2. Weza&Anya in Brizzy 3. Bloggy Tea Party 4. Widgey Comes to Stay 5. A Weekend with Gail 6. Why I Love You All 7. Warkworth 09 8. Brissie with the Gs 9. Bloggers Unite!! 10. Blogging Buddies 11. Soph and Trees! 12. This one time in. . . . 13. Cake meets Whatever! 14. Blog Nerds & Others 15. Delicious Delissimon 16. Tammy's Two Cents 17. Meeting Renee & Lisa 18. Weekend Bliss 19. Catching up 20. Weekend Bliss 21. BlogFamily Adventure