I’m behind on blogging this weekend and these pictures feel like I took them a week ago – not yesterday!
Trips like this are expensive and I’m just some poor Mexican, so I don’t have the money to travel the world as easily as I make it seem on ol’ RER.
I volunteered to be a Live Blogger so I could get a free ticket to Blogher Food and Tina let me crash in her room. Thank you Tina!!! I.O.U. something I don’t know what (but no, I still won’t rub your feet).
Yesterday morning’s first session was Food Bloggers as Storytellers. It was really interesting to hear the panel of bloggers talk about how they approached telling a story with a recipe. Each one had a different approach, but everyone agreed that the most important thing is to be authentic and really tell your own story the way you feel comfortable. 
The speakers:
Moderator: Rebakah Denn www.eatallabouttit.com
@rebekahdenn
Beth Lee www.omgyummy.com
@omgyummyblog
Melissa Crane www.dashofeast.com
@MelissaHCrane
Molly Wizenburg www.orangette.blogspot.com
@mollyorangette
Tori Avery www.theskiksa.com
TheHistoryKitchen.com
@theskiksa
This was one of the two session I Liveblogged – this means I put on my speed typist hat and took tons and tons of notes!
My favorite snippet from this session came from Beth Lee (www.omygyummy.com) who said,
I heard a quote from Frances Lam that I wrote down, “I write about food because I love people.”
Also one of the attendees chimed in a suggested the book, “On Writing” that I want to check out.
After the session we had a small break (that’s when I posted breakfast) and then it was time for exploration and lunch!
Lunch was on our own so Tina and I headed to the Public Market Center. This is the place to be on a Saturday afternoon – it was PACKED!
We walked around the market looking for lunch and finally decided on Pear Delicatessen.
The tables were all full so we grabbed our stuff and headed to the park across the street to eat.
No, we didn’t run across the freeway. This was the view 
I wanted to keep it light so I could finish off my chocolate chip cookie and had a salad.
We walked through the market again on the way back because I needed fruit for my flight home Sunday. 
This drawing caught my eye…
Then, I bought the most expensive pear of my life!
I was about to buy some strawberries, but the vendor gave me a piece of pear to sample and it was delicious. I asked for 2 and it cost $6.00! I was shocked, as asked how much they were each. They’re sold by weight and apparently weigh 1 lb. each! I almost canceled my order, but was embarrassed so I handed over my dirty green paper and took my fancy fruit.
Suddenly, I no longer feel guilty about eating a $8.00 watermelon in 3 days! Saves money.
When we got back to the hotel we swung by the conference area for water. There was a nice man making espresso drinks and I had another Mexican-Americano, this time hot.
I also enjoyed a small chocolate chip bread pudding muffin and piece of banana bread from the chocolate booth. These pictures aren’t blurry, you’ve just had too many mimosas with brunch…
We had an hour to kill before the second session of the day and relaxed back in the room.
This.is.the.life.
After a bit of down time Tina and I headed to the session on photography. It covered photography editing programs that are FREE. 
Free Photo editing programs:
Gimp.org
Pilxr
Notes:
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Fix as much as you can before you edit = make sure the lighting is good!
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If you are taking more than 2 minutes to edit a photo you’re taking too long.
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Don’t over edit or make it look cartoon-ish
After that session we walked into the lobby and there was a crazy selection of snacks! It was like a free buffet at the imaginary gourmet movie theatre of my dreams!
animal crackers in my soup cupcake
They really take this to heart…
I was tempted to dive face first into this container of popcorn!
I grabbed a macaroon, but didn’t like it. I’m not a dry kinda treat girl.
So I stuck with the popcorn and had a few rounds of the regular and chocolate drizzled stuff.
More to come…
I think I gained 12 pounds just oogling those cup cakes and the drizzled popcorn and the Fran’s (??) chocolate bar and the cookies and the cheese and crackers and the wine and the…..
well, you get the idea!! yummmmm city!! I hope I never get invited to one of those thing, my pants collection would go out the door.
🙂
Next time you are in Seattle…you MUST do the food tour of Pike’s Place Market. I did it on a girls trip and it was the highlight. You would love it. Pear Deli is on it and you try a salted caramel…so good.
There’s more??? These pics are already killing me! Anyway, glad you went for the event and had fun. Maybe I should put this down for something to do next year!
Those were some expensive pears. I hope they’re THAT good.
I’ve never had a French Macaroon before, sad to hear that you didn’t like them. I’ll probably still give them a shot eventually.
I like how you figure out how to make things work, esp if you don’t have the cash to do it on your own.
oh wow! so wonderful. Did you go to the Gum wall?
No, but I have one at home…
Ps I love love love the book, “On Writing”
Lotsa food!
That’s it!! I must go to Seattle at some point in my life. I should figure out a race to do there and drag the family along with me. 🙂
That’s awesome that you were able to figure out a way to get to Blogher on a budget. Nice job! Btw, I checked out those photo editing programs you mentioned & it looks like the site for the first one is gimp.org, not .com. Thanks for the recommendations!
Thanks! Just fixed it 🙂
All those treats look delicious!!