I was scoping out the Sony website today and came across their blog. Apparently Rick, the head Sony guy that I sat across from at dinner one night in La Jolla, California, wrote a post with the help of Yolanda, another head Sony lady, about their experience at the Sony Mommy Blogger Event. The post is cleverly titled the Mother of all Bloggers. I was so excited to see my name “in lights”.

Sony, you guys rock! I love you all. Thank you so much for choosing me to be apart of something that will truly be great!!!

Since I am now the proud owner of a Sony Alpha a300, it is time for me to get back into the Wordless Wednesday game. This week is a semi-wordless wednesday because I feel the need to explain the photo to your left.

We took a trip to the San Diego Zoo while in California for the Sony Mommy Blogger Event. We were in the Ape/Monkey section when this one particular Ape was pretty sick of all the people taking his photograph. So being the ape that he is, he walks right up to the glass gets on all fours and points his butt right up to the glass window!!! How funny is that. It was if he was saying “So you wanna take my picture, do ya? Well take a picture of this! *shoves butt up to glass”.

Animals are so funny!

While at the Sony Mommy Blogger Event a fellow bloggy mommy comes up to me and says…

“Table for Five wanted me to tell you to say Hi for her. She is a big fan. She said ‘Make sure you tell her I said hello…I know she is there’.”

Wow! I was completely thrown back by that. Me…little ol’ me, a painfully shy southern girl. I told Lisa “Really…Seriously?” “Wow, I don’t even think of myself in that way.” I felt like such the little blogebrity just then. Imagining that I have such a huge influence on others really makes me feel good and having other people say hello on their behalf when they couldn’t be there made me feel tremendous!

So for you Tables4five I give you a great BIG thank you! You really did make my trip!!!

So I bought a little hedgehog at the San Diego zoo while on my stay at the Sony Mommy Blogger Event in California. I was trying to think of a name for him to remember the time that I had out there. My father suggested that I name him “Bouji” in honor of the four star hotel and meals that we ate. I am a very down to earth, southern lady and to put me in an environment that required me to eat something with a different fork and drink from more than one glass was completely out of my element. We had one waiter at a four star restaurant that we ate at that was completely enveloped in the “bouji lifestyle”. We had our five gazillion utensils all laying neatly in a row. I immediately flicked one of the spoons in the middle so that it was sideways just to disrupt the order of things. Immediately “bouji waiter guy” came running over to our table and corrected my misaligned spoon as if the planet were to stop spinning had the spoon not been in its perfect place. Each time he came to our table he adjusted the spoon and each time I turned it the wrong direction when he left. I thought it was funny to mess with the guy a little bit to see how often he would correct my “southern bad habit”. Life doesn’t have to be that serious. I’m definitely not the type of person that could ever be famous. I couldn’t stand people waiting on me hand and foot, nor did I care for people doing things for me like opening car doors. I mean seriously, I got this all by my little self.

So in honor of the “bouji guys” of California that waited on me as if I were more than an internet celebrity, I have the hedgehog. I’ve been wanting a little something to take along with me and take pictures of the object with the background of whatever I am doing. Bouji will forever be with me, he will be in a photo set all to himself on flickr. You can see his adventures and daily life. You never know where “bouji” will turn up.

I was checking out Me Ra Koh’s Blog (my new idol, person I look up to in the photography department) this morning and found out that she thought some of the photos I took at the Sony Mommy Blogger Event were pretty swank!