3 hours, 1 Scorpion Sting and 15 new blogging friends later...

(...and let the record show that the 1 Scorpion Sting was due to the suspiciously high amounts of rum it contained despite it being listed as 'medium' on the bar's alcohol barometer, coupled with the fact that I had to drive home - not because I wouldn't have loved to have had 3)

So tonight I made 15 - 16? 17? - new friends who I have (at least) one fabulous thing in common with.

Yes, I can count.  Several had already left when we grabbed found a girl to take this photo.  With 12 cameras.
That's me on the top right.  And 11 members of the coolest new club in MN.

We are Minnesota Bloggers.

We are vastly different and all have our own individual stories to tell.  Which we did.

I am, by far, the oldest (and by 'by far' I mean that I could totally be their much older sister,

 of course). 

I listened to my new blogging friends talk about their brand new marriages, the weddings they are planning, their first anniversaries, their pregnancies and their babies.  

I talked about my 19 year marriage and my teenager's obsession with One Direction and kept my mouth shut when they were describing toys they used to play with that 

I remember my own daughter playing with.

Two opposite ends of the spectrum.

But it didn't matter.

As Kelly (one of the adorable planners of the Happy Hour and one of 

the founders of MN Bloggers and a dead ringer for Elle Woods) 

said at one point in the night, 

"...age is just a number." 

(and I swear this comment was not initiated by me overcompensating 

for feeling like the old lady in the bunch).  

We are old (cough) and young, married and single, career-oriented &/or looking for a job, 

mamas and mamas-to-be, native Minnesotans and transplants, old friends and new friends....

and we have one fantastic thing in common (besides our obsessive love for The Bachelor) - 

We love to write and we love to share our stories.

And now we are friends.

And I'm happy to be part of the club!