Weekly Winners {Birmingham Edition}
I was invited to be a panelist at the “Marketing to the Modern Mom” day seminar in Birmingham, Alabama (or Aladama, as Davey says.) The panel consisted of Anissa, Lotus, and myself. We talked about why we blog, how we like to form relationships with companies, the things that we think that companies/marketers can do to reach us better, and the ways we could all benefit. It was very informative, a great discussion, and an awesome mini-conference. Kudos to David Griner and his team at Luckie for doing such an awesome job!
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Anissa and I drove up on Wednesday. I rode MARTA for the first time and she picked me up from the Atlanta airport. That, in-and-of-itself, was a fun experience. Michael’s had his fair share of train treks, so it was oddly interesting to be the one dropped off at the Kiss-Ride.
When we got to our hotel we were quite impressed. We stayed at an aloft Hotel and it was so cool. It was hip and contemporary, and we squealed like schoolgirls when we got into our room.
Once we got our bags in our room, we headed out for lunch. We asked the gal at the front desk and she highly recommended Jackson’s. Glad she did, too; it was awesome.
After that we did some window shopping. We stopped at a very cool shop called Soiree. The style in there was simply breath-taking. I almost bought a scarf. Now that I’m home, I wish I did.
We then went back to the room because we wanted to watch Nie Nie on Oprah. We thought we’d missed it, but forgot to take into account that Birmingham was on CST. We checked email, twitter, napped, watched Oprah, and then we got ready to meet David in the lobby for dinner and drinks.
Then coffee from Oh Henry’s:
Soon thereafter a text came from Lotus that she, John, and Braden were there. David took them to get dinner and we accompanied them. It was so nice to finally meet John and to see Braden again.
The night ended with more mojitos, great conversation, sexual positions (you should check my twitpic stream for that), and then Loter and I took a stroll around SoHo.
The next day was our panel. Luckily Anissa did not require any bailing out of jail and we were on time.
We were treated to a tour of the famous Vulcan and the McWane Science Center. It was an awesome-awesome time!
I wish I could show you every picture individually, but I can’t. So, if you want to see more visit my Flickr!
Thanks again to Luckie for having us out. I thoroughly enjoyed Birmingham and your hospitality is greatly appreciated. Expect a call when I bring my family to town!
Tagged: AL, anissa mayhew, Birmingham, lotus carroll, Marketing to the Modern Mom
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Awesome set! I love how you look at life, so beautiful and so full of excitement and fun.
Amazing, amazing pics as always Mishi! Each one was fabulous! I am so jealous you and Lotus got to hang out together, both of my blogging idols together is too much to resist!
beautiful shots, I can’t wait to have a REAL camera!!
can you tell me what photo bliss is about?
thanks
Jen
i love love love this set, especially the fish, and the rich tones in the photo of what i’m assuming is a chandelier bottom, or some sort of light fixture? it’s incredible.
xo
You have SUCH an amazing eye! I’ve told ALL my friends about you and the pics you took of me. I’m so lucky to have you as a friend!
Oh how FUN! I love your perspective. You shoot such interesting points of view. You rock girl.
Lovely, lovely, lovely… looks like you had a great time – how nice!! Beautiful photos, lady…
Fabulous photos! Looks you had a great time!
Wow! You got some fabulous pictures and it looks like you had a great time.
Just gorgeous shots! I love the oven and the sushi and nice butt on that statue!
Love the tale told in photos. You’re an exceptional photographer! But I’ll bet you already know that…
These are beyond gorgeous, Mish.
I wish I could have been there to hear y’all speak and experience all this with y’all.
MWAH my darling friend. Love you
What an awesome experience!! Absolutely wonderful that you got that opportunity
Great set and looks like a good time too.
Oh how I wish I could have met up with ya’ll & had a mojito too…it looks like you had so much fun. Woohoo!
How fun! I absolutely love the wall of drinks and the chandelier!
Wow….. those are fantastic photos. Not even sure which is my favorite b/c I like so many of them so much. I think I’ll have to go with the bar shots (the wall of booze, the sushi, and the olives) and the jellyfish shot (because I have tried to take this same shot tons of times and NEVER get it!). xoxo
My son loves Marta but we never took it all the way down to the airport yet. Maybe one of these days. :)
Love this set, you have such a way to capture even the most typical things to look so amazing!!!