Esther doodles on the whiteboard at Flock HQ

Annie makes Flock boys cry during the Flock usability test

setting up before the conference and pointing out just how close we are to Google's booth

our semi-empty cart and up we go!

deciding which faux tree to get

the tree barely makes the height clearance at Target's cart escalator entrance

Annie helps the cart thru its second height test

we like japanese food, and beer

dressing up themintpages booth

Shail's taller, he helps

spying from behind the lemon tree

waiting for Godot

setting out our minty schwag

Esther hides behind the lemon tree

practicing the minty pitch

our display!

you can tell a giggle of girls were here

adding finishing touches to minty water bottles

we hijacked the Google booth while they were gone watching the Governator do the keynote

Annie so wanted to help them demo their product live

Shail dances

Esther just can't seem to get away from the camera

still hiding..

and then after this picture, she proceeds to add the water bottle to the mess of papers before her face

Annie relaxes on the massage chair

flipping thru the free magazine we snagged from another booth

we had like 250 copies of our 2 page executive summary to hand out like candy

the two halves of Daria

the Chang sisters! *

Esther now relaxes on the massage chair while Annie amps up on free coffee

by this point, you don't know if she's dozing or not

the view of the vegetarian buffet which we saw all day from our booth

Shail, when he was actually at our booth, cuz he was such a social butterfly at TiEcon

hanging out

they hung what looked like giant round tables from the ceiling and then shined lights and projected stuff on them

my shoes, you know, the ones that aren't quite dressy enough

Anne's Ferragamos are! Esther previously captioned this one "tired feet"

sharing my nasty papercut when Annie interjects her finger in front of the camera too

we all share our owies! from left: Annie with suitcase accident, Esther with knife accident, Angie with nasty papercut

I love my kitschy nametag and the faux lemon tree

la di da, di da.

that is not coffee in Annie's cup!

our booth waits for its next customer

end of day one, picture one.

end of day one, picture two, where Esther actually has her eyes open

posting minty post-its

we are obsessed with all things minty

Esther-motion-blur

smile?

Esther's had enough of smiling and goes into hiding

mm.. buttons!

Esther's hipster PDA, and hipster can of Tab, all minted out!

all the minty freshness you can get in a bottle or can!

Annie entertains a visitor to the booth

Esther entertains another visitor

somehow, we all dressed nicer for day two

and with that, the conference comes to an end! two days of fun-filled exhibitor-boothing!

Khalid does a podcast for the HotFromSiliconValley guy *

we like to entertain ourselves *

taking the trees back to the car -- they're not that heavy, until you've carried them 400 feet and then they're HEAVY

on Sunday, I drive to Berkeley for Pat's grad dinner and Nick demonstrates how to use the minty pen as eyeliner

we lost a few pens to Robert's explosive hairdo

Alice uses the minty pen for anagram fun

Pattycakes and a very tired me.

we are such a happy foursome - now to cavort in "the sit-tay" before Pat leaves for France

usually Mehdi's camera shy to the max, but he let me foto him because of his love for the minty pen

Mehdi says "you're artistic" over and over again simply because I wanted to get this foto

Ramit scoffed at my minty pens at first sight, until he held one and it was love at first touch.

Jim takes care of that oral fixation with minty love -- and a pen

Bart is oh so happy to be using his minty pen. note that he chose it over the LinkedIn one. ha!