Steff and I ventured to book signing of one of her and my favorite bloggers, and now author of an awesome love story. We also have her cookbook...which I have mentioned here. Needless to say I LOVE this woman!!
I honestly can't say when else in my life I've had that much fun waiting 4 and a half hours for something. But it was a blast.
We arrived at St. Louis County Library at 5pm. A whole hour before the signing began. Already, the sidewalk was lined with people. We decided to take ourselves to find a restroom and wait out the line indoors instead of out.
Directly across the street from the library was the Plaza Frontenac. I realize that admitting it was my first trip to this place ever in my life, may just mean I live under a rock. Regardless, it was warm and delightful browsing the stores and chatting with my friend!!
Around 5:45 we departed the mall and decided to brave the craziness once again. To our surprise the line wasn't there at all. Everyone, we discovered, had gone inside to receive a ticket and be assigned a group number. Hmmm.
This was another first for me. My first book signing of someone with a best selling cook-book, award winning blog and best selling first-time novel. The process of group numbers and tickets was totally new.
Anyway, we were assigned to group 12 and sat down just as Pioneer Woman got up on stage to joke about how she was the opposite of a public speaker because she was a blogger. She also joked about sweating, a problem she mentions in her novel a few times. She is extremely humble and does not give herself quite enough credit I don't think!
Shortly after 6 they began sending the groups in to get their books signed. This is where we found out we were group 12 of 13. Nearly dead last. It was gonna be a long night!!
But a surprise visit from PW's famed Marbolo Man certainly did help pass the time a bit. He walked right out to our spot in the crowd and said, "How ya'll doin'?" He was making small talk and all I could think about were the things I knew about him and the way his wife swooned over him. I didn't even know what to say! Shortly after some small talk, a few ladies began asking for photos and autographs from him. DUH. I told you I'd never done this before!! Why didn't we think of that? Soon, his line of admirers was a mile long! But we did hop in line to get our own autographs from him. I'm so glad we did :)
But like I said, I've never in my life had so much fun waiting 4 hours for something.10:30 rolled around, they called group 12 and we got in line! It was a great experience...and I know I'll never forget it.
By 11:30 I was dropping Steff at her door. We were weary and wiped out from a crazy afternoon together. But that just means we had fun!! What a great girls night out!!!
1 comment:
Wow. Do we look like two tired chickas or what? No one else I'd rather do this with, though.
So fun.
I think I have a crush on the Marlboro Man.
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