My morning started with a 5 am wake up call to get ready and get to the LIRR in time for a 6:13 am train that would get me to the city by 7 am where I would catching Amtrak to Baltimore at 8:10. I woke my husband at 5:50 and he dropped me off at Dunkin Donuts for a large coffee prior to catching my train.
Chris said I left way too early as usual but I’d rather be early than late even if it means waiting at PENN station for an hour. I walked around, grabbed a magazine and breakfast from Chickpea (egg white wrap). At 8 am we boarded the Amtrak train for Baltimore.
I found a seat and settled in for my 2 hour and 45 minute ride to Baltimore!! What I loved about Amtrak is that I didn’t have to be stressed about driving alone and I could connect to their Wi-Fi ( although it was not great) and blog. I was able to get some future posts written and clean up my AOL email that had like 600 emails in it!!!!
I arrived in Baltimore around 10:40:
I decided to take a cab to the hotel instead of walking because unfortunately my shin is killing me from all the poking and prodding by the doctor on Tuesday. The cab ride was less than 10 minutes and I arrived at the Hyatt Regency in plenty of time for the McCormick tour.
This is my fist trip away by myself ever!!! I actually feel like a real grown up now even though I still miss the family.
I will be recapping the entire weekend in my next few posts including my trip to McCormick, all the great bloggers I met and all the awesome sessions I attended. I promise the next few recaps will be more interesting than this one but I was excited about my my first trip sans family that I just had to post about it!!!
Stay Tuned……….
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Sounds like you are having a great time! I am reading everyone’s tweets and blogs and wishing I was there:)
hikermom recently posted..Free Rant Friday
Would have loved to have met you, my posts will all be coming this week!
So glad you made it down and that we had a chance to meet! It was a fantastic weekend!
misszippy1 recently posted..Then and now
It was great meeting you too!!! I am missing all my Fitbloggin friends!
Toni, for me one of the conference highlights was getting to meet and spend time with you! I’m so proud of all that you have accomplished and the wonderful things that lie ahead. Send me an email when you have time to follow-up on the ideas we discussed.
Thanks so much Shira!! I took so much back from this conference!! New friends was one of the best things plus I learned alot about myself. I will email you definitely!
Looking forward to seeing your other recap posts.
If, by chance, you took any photos of me while I was sleeping (I drool when I sleep), please don’t post them here
It was great rooming with you Toni!
Tamara recently posted..Healthy eating on the road: food at FitBloggin
Promise I will not put any pics of you sleeping, those are strictly for blackmail….jk! We never got a pic together, unless you have one?!? This just means we definitely have to meet up again!
Thanks for being an awesome roommate, sorry about the hiccups
It was so great to meet you, Toni! I wish we would have had more time to chat… the weekend was packed. I can’t believe how fast it went! Hope our paths cross again.
Laura recently posted..Fitbloggin Recap part two + Drink Chia sampling
It was great to meet you too!! It was a busy weekend, I am sure we will cross paths again!! Thanks for the Drink Chia!
so so grateful we finally met in person!
xoxo
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Me too!! Thanks Carla!