Hello! And welcome to the scrollfest that is the rundown on my (er, Lacy’s) trip to Vegas for SITScation, a blogger’s conference last weekend. While the rest of the world was at Blog World Expo, seventy-five or so of us descended on a smaller, more intimate, less overwhelming blogging conference.
If there’s one piece of advice I can give you about going to such an event, it’s that you should bring a mascot. People love mascots, and pink-pantied Lacy was no exception. At the risk of allowing her to become more famous than I, I brought her to The Venetian in Vegas with me, and she rocked it.
Here she is delivering her keynote speech at SITScation in the Venetian conference center:
Lacy was accosted by fans all day long and it felt like being bombarded by the paparazzi (because I totally know what that feels like, me and Paris Hilton, yo.)
Anyway, people screamed and cried and begged to have their picture taken with Lacy, such as:
Kerri (Damn You Little Rock) and Amy (The Bee Dot)…two fabulous ladies from Arkansas. Is that tug-of-war they’re playing?
Also? The infamous Jessica Gottleib. Lacy practically broke her neck, craning to give her a kiss.
And no star-studded photo album would be complete without a picture of SITScation’s fearless leaders:
Here’s Tonya (This and That) posing for the photog on the red carpet.
And then it was Lacy’s turn. Sadly, nobody asked her who she was wearing.
You may or may not recognize the arm assistance of Lara (Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom).
Two people we actually got to spend some time with during this whirlwhind of an event were two bloggers from Los Angeles. This is my favorite part of any conference: The connecting to people IRL (in real life).
Then there was the after-party with many celebrities in their hotel rooms. This is the closest I could get to showing you the after-party, as the bodyguards slash bouncers just inside this door confiscated our cameras upon entry to ensure no leaks to TMZ.com.
After a few speakers the next morning, Lacy lunched with fellow bloggers.
During dessert, she Twittered about the weekend’s events. And since she has about 48 badrillion followers, pretty much everyone knew what we were doing.
Granted, Humpty can be fragile at times, but doesn’t that mean he’s the real sensitive type?
I ducked into a bathroom just to catch my breath and escape all the testosterone, but when I snuck into a stall my eyes fell upon this necklace hanging from the stall door!
And speaking of penises, have I even mentioned all the swag from SITScation?
Lacy and I were exhausted and she insisted on returning to our room, where she sprawled on our tiny tiny hotel room couch. In the sunken living room.
This is my favorite picture from the weekend:
I don’t know if you’ve heard, whether it was on CNN, or the AP Newswire, but Nanny Goats in Panties is now available on Amazon’s Kindle. Tell your Kindle-havin’ friends. And you know what would really be cool? At least for me? If you went to the NGIP Kindle page and wrote a nice little review. You don’t have to if you don’t want to, or don’t have an Amazon profile, or whatever, but I’ve heard it doesn’t hurt to ask people for things. I think it was Renee J Ross (Cutie Booty Cakes) who said those very words when she spoke to us at SITScation.
Do I expect many Kindle subscribers? Heck no. But every little outlet helps. And now I can say I have published work available on Amazon.com - woo-hoo!
What????????? I didn’t get a photo taken with Lacy. Well now I’m just going to have to see you again and get it right this time.
I bet TMZ.com got in there…they’ll post the footage soon, so look out, Lacy.
Sorry I haven’t visited in a few days, but it’s been a rough week. I am so glad Lacey had such a great time at the conference. It looks like all you ladies did. I hope I am feeling up to it next year, I would LOVE to meet Lacey (and you all)…
Thanks for the recap. Have a great autumn and a wonderful Halloween!!!
Is it weird that I like reading recaps of conferences that I didn’t attend? Seriously - it was the same with BlogHer. I just love seeing the pictures and knowing who hung out with who. And what they were wearing. It’s like blogger tabloids. Someone should TOTALLY start one of those!
Glad you and Lacey had fun!
Oh my Nanny, it looked like so much fun, Lacy must have had too much fun, I bet the Celebs were jealous.
Big Hugs
Bess
(now btw.I need your help, Bob has decided to let me run our awards presentation this week, and i decided to let all of you past winners select your favorite blogger for the award, I f you would like to pick your favorite , let me know and I will publish your pick along with the others. Thank-you so much, Bess)
Just another weekend where I was home with my jealousy and envy. We are good friends.
I love the recap and having lunch with Lacy was so much fun! And asking never hurts. Hell, I don’t even own a kindle but I will review you there is I can because EVERYONE should read Nanny Goats in Panties!
WOW! It looks like you guys had so much fun! I want to go!
Visiting over from SITS. I’m a new follower now!
I love how I couldn’t look up (or smile) for the picture because I was too busy playing with my bedazzled vibrator!
That looks like a whole lot of fun. Hope Lacy isn’t too tuckered out after all that partying!
I just glad you didn’t get a picture of the naughty things Lacy and were doing at the conference with our free penises!
The last thing we need in bad publicity like that!
I’m so glad I finally got to meet you and I’m serious when I said your my new BFF. Whether you know it or not, you are!
Lacy has quite a following. I didn’t realize just how popular she was till now. Blue Man!? Luv them.
It was nice of Lacy to allow so many pictures of her. That can be tiresome for sure.
LOL - I LOVE the pictures and the fact that Lacy was so “generous” to her “adoring public” hee hee hee! Looks like you guys had a great time. Since I am from the Little Rock, Arkansas area originally, I am going to check out those 2 girls blog here on your site! :o)
I love that you got a picture of all the swag…….that goat really gets round. Such a pleasure to meet you!
The photo with Blue Man cracked me up!
And AMAZON KINDLE!!!!! OMG! That is awesome. Congratulations! That should be a post all on it’s own! That’s huge!
xo
Okay, this post trumps the tacky wedding post from a few weeks ago. I love it Lacy gambling and being seen with various male suitors in Las Vegas. Classic!!
I was just pricing the Kindles on Amazon this morning! I’ll call that kismet. And then, I received an email for a chance to enter the Kindle wish list sweepstakes. Well kismet will have to wait for me to land a gig before I can attain the Kindle DX the one I really want. Congratulations on NGIP being part of the Amazon blogs. Good job and I’m still ROTFL at this post.
LOL, that is fantastic!!
Wow Lacy - what a great great trip!
Thanks for sharing!
i loved meeting Lacy. i cant believe i lost all my senses and did not get a picture with her. i guess i was just too star-struck and inspired from her sitscation address.
so nice to meet you both!
OMG! So cute! Jealous!
I’m totally jealous. What a fun time. Great photos. Lacy is a super-stah! Congrats on the kindle. That rocks!
I am so glad Lacy didn’t shun the Paparazzi! LOL!!
I so wish I could have gone. I hope you enjoy my rich soap.Maybe next year you can pack me in your bag and take a real goat. Not that I would want to steal Lacy’s thunder or anything. She’s cute in a stuffed goat kind of way. But I am loyal to my Luke.
Wow- Lacey got around! Great recap! It was so fun meeting you both. I hope Lacey didn’t get the swine flu like so many of us did!
I am pea green with jell-ass-ee. Looks like you had a great time.
Looks like you and Lacy had a grand time at the conference. Sure hope Lacy kicks her gambling addiction and her goat crush on Venetian Guy. I love the last pic of VG it is really pronominal.
Ya’ll rest up and have a great day!!!
Love it, love it! I had a great time too =)
Whoa! That little Lacy goat really gets around. Maybe I should try wearing some pink panties myself. It looks like fun!
Your pictures are wonderful. I’m a terrible picture taker. It makes the story SO much better and Lacy is darling. I’m also a Kindle owner, so I’ll have to check out your blog for the Kindle.
Thanks for posting all that, it’s nice to see faces and put them to bloggers! And I’ve seen that little goat already once this morning in another post, how funny!
Eat your heart out, Olga…I smell a ‘Lacy the Traveling Goat’ series in the works.
That looked like all kinds of fun. I must admit that I am a little starstruck over seeing your goat with the Travelocity roaming gnome. Did he hit on Lacy?
OMG you took amazing pictures!! sadly there are none of us together…but next year for sure!! Lacy really was the life of the party! she made the rounds! lol….it was so awesome meeting you, i can’t wait til the next time we meet us, i’ll bring my mascot and they can party together!
Fun. And pink and goatskin was hilarious. Laugh out loud, choke on my drink funny.