thanks for sharing and it looks like yall had a great time!!! how fun!!!

I enjoyed reading your post! Everyone looks fantastic.

Look at all of you - I need sunglasses to shield me from the glow of fun and uber-fashion-fabness. Wish I could be at one of these someday...

I really enjoyed reading your post and it looks like you had a fun time! Love the pictures!

Thank you so much for this write-up. You made me feel like I was there.

What a fun post! Thank you for writing this up, Rita. Wish I could have been there! You all look terrific!

Rita, your account of the day was absolute perfection--only rivaled by living the actual day! Thank you so much for the photos! Look at all those lovelies!

Good grief, you all look amazing and what a fun read this was!

I am terribly jealous:)

Everybody looks great! Thanks for sharing the day! I always feel like I've met a celebrity when I meet someone I only know from online (and yes I met DH online...) Hoping there can be a Washington DC meet sometime or I'll be sure to reserve next year for NYC.

You all look gorgeous!

Rita, did you really meet up with Angie, Lisa, and Maya in Zara? That must have been just minutes after I'd left! So sorry to have missed you, and thank you for this recap of the afternoon. You really captured what it's like to meet people you've only "known" online.

You know, I've been here for a bit over two years now, and I've been reading about YLF meetups nearly since the beginning, but they're always among my favourite posts! I always get the biggest smile on my face picturing the reactions and imagining the conversations that go on in person. This is such a special place!! I'm so glad everyone got to see each other...and even more glad that Angie and Greg made YLF happen!

Such gorgeous gorgeous women!!! I LOVE hearing about YLF meetups

Thanks to Maya and Lisa for helping me and my husband find our way to the YLF lunch at the Smith last Saturday. It was waaaaaay too much fun to see Angie and Greg, along with Rita, Maya, Janet, Lisa and husband...these east coast ladies really know how to shop and rock their fashions! Walt and I had such a good time!

The gentlemen (Greg, Joe and Walt) sat at one end of the table during lunch and talked mostly about techie things and discussed what are the best, most authentic bars in Manhattan. So my husband had a terrific time, in case any of you were wondering what men might do at a future YLF rendezvous.

This is my second YLF lunch with Angie in 2011; I feel so blessed. She is such a sweet and generous soul, just as she comes across on this site. Totally high energy and mega-inclusive -- no one is left out of the conversation. Amazing.

Thanks for taking the time to write this post; I felt like I was there. Such a fun group and the pics are priceless. Thank you again, Angie (and Greg) for creating such a great community.

ditto Sarah, MaryK, Michelle, and Sheila; what a fabulous day it sounds, Rita!

Everyone looks so beautiful and animated. Thank-you so much for sharing. Good to hear that there's a place for the blokes at YLF meet-ups, too! And I am so glad I am not the only one who forgets to take pics in the excitement of a YLF meet-up :).

Yay for this wonderful community, and yay Angie and Greg for making it happen!

Thanks for posting this, Rita! I've been meaning to add my thoughts about the day, but this week has been CRAZY! Our Internet has been knocked out and I've only had a few moments of 3G time here and there to check in briefly.

I'll share more later (including my shopping finds, and my amusing random celebrity sighting on the way to the train station), but I had such a great time meeting you all! I just wish I'd known that you all were gathering for some shopping time after breakfast with Tara -- I would have hurried to join you, but I'm still pleased as could be that I got to have lunch with the group and enjoy the afternoon shopping!

It was so wonderful to meet everyone. You all are as beautiful and charming in personal as you are on the forum. Thanks for making it an awesome day!

Thank you for posting Rita. It sounds like a fun day.
AJ proposal for a world YLF seminar seems more and more apealing

Beautiful ladies and beautiful weather. I am very sad to have missed it!

Thanks for posting, Rita! It sounds like you gals had a blast. Fab group photo ^^

How fabulous! I love hearing about gatherings around the world *almost* as much as I love it when I have a chance to participate. You all look amazing. Thanks for sharing!