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Long overdue post: SMX wrap-up

by Carolyn Shelby on June 11, 2007

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I’ve sat down to write this post at least a dozen times, and I’ve either been too tired to write coherently, or been busy and otherwise preoccupied. So, I apologize for the completely untimely nature of this SMX summary.

The Space Needle in Seattle, WA

The Space Needle in Seattle, WA

Here’s the quick play-by-play of the trip…
I left for Seattle early in the morning (at like 4 am) on Saturday, June 2nd. Arrived at SEA at 10:30a local time. Spent a couple hours in the lounge twittering about how bored I was. Wandered through the duty free shop and got sprayed by a lady testing perfumes, so I smelled very flowery for a few hours, which I suppose is better than smelling like sauerkraut or something. Got a limo to the hotel (yay). The weather was fantastic, the hotel was very nice. There were flowers waiting for me in the room for my birthday (peonies — my fave).

Saturday night, we walked to Belltown. Stopped in a couple shops… had dinner at the Queen City Grill (very good steaks). We ate outside and people watched a bit. I noticed a disturbing trend… apparently it isn’t usually quite that warm in Seattle, so there was an overabundance of very, very, very, very white people in shorts and sun dresses. Let’s see… after dinner we cabbed over to the Space Needle… It was prom night, so the place was packed with teenagers and tulle. We bumped into Danny Sullivan, Matt Cutts and Vanessa Fox on the oberservation deck. We (exclusive of the aforementioned people into whom we ran) hung out until sunset so we could get some pictures of the skyline, and then I think we just headed back to the Fairmont. [click to continue...]

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Cshel’s SMX travel schedule

by Carolyn Shelby on May 31, 2007

As I’m starting to do laundry and plan out my “what to pack” list (so I have everything I need, yet also don’t have to schlep enough crap to last me an ice age), I figured it wouldn’t hurt to share my itinerary so anyone who wants to catch up with me while I’m in Seattle can do so. It also benefits the people who won’t be in Seattle, since they might be wondering where in the hell I am and why I’m not being super speedy about returning emails and calls.

I’m flying out (ungodly) early in the morning on Saturday, June 2nd. I think I land at SEA-TAC at like 10:22a local time. I’ll be doing some touristy things on Saturday and then all the conference related events and activities Sunday through Tuesday. I’m leaving on the red-eye Tuesday night (11:20p).

I’m taking my camera and I’ll take TONS of pictures, which I shall upload to my Flickr account as time permits, and I’ll try to blog and twitter as much as possible.

Let’s see…. what else? Oh! I finally remembered to sign-up for a better texting plan, so feel free to text me with impunity and without the fear of getting an irate phone call about how I pay $0.25 per text message, because I don’t anymore. (Yay!)

So anyway, I’m looking forward to the conference and seeing people again! I’ll post some recaps when I have information to share.

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