Welcome back to Show and Tell. Everyone is welcome to join, even if you have never posted before and just found out about Show and Tell for the first time today. In fact, we hope you do go back to your blog and post your own Show and Tell item and then return with the link to your post. Details on how to participate are located at the bottom of this post.

Let’s begin.

So I said I wasn’t going to post until tomorrow but then I was listening to Dooce and her foray into vegetarianism and it made me want to talk about this. We have had so much trouble eating in San Francisco. Isn’t that bizarre? The section of town we are staying in has a dearth of vegetarian options. The place we went to last night had literally one vegetarian thing on the menu. I know there are these great places in the city, but we missed them. And that makes me so sad. And I guess that is how the San Francisco bloggers are going to get me to drag my ass out here again. The best meal we ate in terms of choice came from the amazing food court near the Powell Street BART stop. Mmmm…grilled asparagus.

If you are seeking inspiration and want to join Show and Tell this week, tell me about your best meal this week.

What are you showing today?

Want to bring something to Show and Tell?

• If you would like to join circle time and show something to the class, simply post each Sunday (or earlier in the weekend or on Monday if you can’t do Sunday), hopefully including a picture if possible, and telling us about your item. It can be anything–a photo from a trip, a picture of the dress you bought this week, a random image from an old yearbook showing a person you miss. It doesn’t need to contain a picture if you can’t get a picture–you can simply tell a story about a single item.
• Label your post “Show and Tell” each week and then come back here and add the permalink in the comments section below (make sure you don’t just comment that you participated: add a link to your blog in your comment so people can click over). I post a new Show and Tell post every Saturday night or Sunday. I usually move people up into the body of the post every few hours.
• Oh, and then the point is that you click through all of your classmates and see what they are showing this week.
• If you want it…
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I am going to write my wrap-up post tomorrow when I’m home; tell you all about the panel and the final people I met and all these other cool things that happened along the way. But I’m listening to Heather Armstrong and Stephanie Klein right now. So my attention is split. So…in order to discuss the incredible Alice in Wonderland quality to BlogHer and do it justice, I’m going to wait to write words and instead present you with pictures.

OH! And before I forget, I am going to post the Show and Tell thread tomorrow once I’m home. So…post tonight if you want to get it up, but make sure I know tomorrow so I can add you.

But here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure:

This one was pretty emotional. Bleu drove up with Bliss for an hour of hanging out before the panel. And it broke my heart that the time was so short, but it was pure love to be in her presence.

This is more for me perhaps than even for you, but I’m sitting in this panel and just heard about a really cool project called Hope Notes. I want to make sure I can find this again when I get home so I can actually do it. But…um…if you wanted to do it too, it would be really cool.

Okay, I know I have been an emotional wreck this weekend, but it is incredibly moving to be sitting in a room with so many women all talking about how we can use our blogs for compassionate acts.

I love BlogHer.

I’m now at the kind bloggers (compassionate bloggers?) panel but a few minutes ago, we were sitting in the opening keynote. PJ was taking notes, Luna was listening, Lori was still trying to navigate Twitter, Rachel Inbar was passing out gum. And I was taking pictures.

At 1:45, anyone who wants to meet up pre-panel, we’re going to be at the circular sofa in the lobby. Join us.

BlogHer is the best party ever. It’s hard to say this knowing that some of you aren’t here, but it is pretty emotional to finally get to hug someone that you’ve read for so long through the computer. Last night, when I came out of the keynote address, I passed by this balcony and as I looked down, I saw Michell. And I was so excited that I blew her a kiss before running down the stairs. You spend so much time reading someone’s life and then BlogHer comes about and you actually get to crash into people’s lives.

Having never been to a conference in my life, I didn’t really get that fact until after I was here.

Last night, I got to meet a bunch of ALI bloggers. Lori, Pamela Jeanne, and I were joined by Luna, Michell, and Millie. Some husbands came along too (not to make Mr. Luna feel left out. He took the picture below AND he had to hip check a hostess out of the way to claim her spot to take it). We started at an Italian restaurant and ended up at a small French cafe, squeezed around two small circular tables.

And it’s amazing. I know I’ve met a lot of bloggers by this point considering how often TOOTPU gets together, but it still amazes me whenever someone steps out from the screen and I get to hug them. You all mean so much to me and it’s hard having so many people so far away.

I want to go home because I miss the twins, but I want to stay here in this eternal party. I am definitely going to the DC Reach tour in the fall (October 13) and I think we should try to drag together as many East Coasters as possible for that. Or the Boston one. I’m not sure which other cities are part of the tour.

So, without further ado, the ALI bloggers from last night:

And now the opening keynote begins the final day of BlogHer. Our panel is at 3 this afternoon.