6th 7th & 8th Stop in the South! Chattanooga, Nashville & Kentucky!!

(Kickin' with the Chattanooga crowd! above)
(Laughing it up with the Nashville PUG!)

(iphone picture of us out to dinner with the Nashville PUG)

(Kentucky PUG!!)

The final 3! (for now at least!) Michael and I had such a blast visiting these last 3 cities on our PUG Tour South.

  Nathan & Amber Holritz are the amazing PUG leaders in Chattanooga. I remember going to see them speak at the Chicago Partner Conference in 2007, and they showed pictures of their home office and living room area. So it was really a surreal experience for me to actually go to it since at the time I never imagined I'd be visiting Chattanooga! I love Nathan and Amber. They are so fun and down to earth. It was so fun hanging out with them at the PUG and then afterwards everyone went out to dinner. I can't wait to hang out next week at Pictage Partner Conference in LA! 

I totally have to give it up the the Nashville PUG! They won the album competition that Pictage had and so Joe Buissink is coming to speak to their PUG! Wow! It probably had something to do with their awesome PUG leaders - Peter & Whitney Carlson... These guys were super organized and even had a blog specifically for their PUG! How cool is that? It was super fun to go out with everyone afterward and get some yummy Nashville food! We were sad because we didn't get any time at all to see Nashville... (I guess we'll have to come back!)

Louisville, Kentucky. Michael and I spent the entire time trying to figure out how to actually say "Louisville" correctly. There they pronounce it something like "Loo-vulle." We had fun practicing, but I don't think we ever got it right! The PUG leader in Louisville (Angela Anderson) has an amazing studio that we presented in! We projected our keynote onto this gigantic white backdrop so I literally felt like how actors must feel when they see their big mug on the silver screen. (Kind of embarrassing actually since we show a few videos of ourselves in our presentation!) Anyway, it was our last stop but we had a blast going to dinner afterward and getting a chance to hang out and chat ever more with the awesome photographers there. Angela is a super talented artist and so it was amazing to get to meet her and her PUG members! 

This tour has been really amazing so far. We can't believe what a great experience it has been and we can't wait for September when we are visiting the East Coast and Mid West!!