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I Have Finally Arrived
October 26, 2007
I left home at 7:15 a.m. and arrived in New Orleans at 8:35 p.m. I thought I could catch better flight out and went to the airport early. Every single flight filled up, so I couldn't change my time and once again I wandered the airport checking out who was reading what.
I did meet Erin, 25 who missed her 5:45 a.m. plane. She went to buy a book and bought
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck. All the new releases out there and she goes for a classic, go figure. Erin had 4 hours to kill and she is enjoying the book.
At the St. Louis airport I met up with Andrew and Andrew, 2 Marquette students on their way to the
VooDoo Music Experience featuring Smashing Pumpkins Rage Against the Machine and Black Crow. They said they've been coming for several years and meet up with about 20 friends. The Andrews are going to let me know how it went .
On my way to the restroom on the plane, I look to see who'd reading what and I notice Tori, 19 reading a
Jo Beverley book. She loves historicals and vampires (boy do I have a lot to suggest to her). Turns out she's a journalism major and wants to be a writer.
When I finally got off the plane,
Dianna Love Snell was at the airport with her sister-in-law Terri to pick me up. We had a very entertaining ride to the hotel because Dianna brought along her Zuma (gps system) and she obviously has a love/hate relationship going on. Calling the thing the Zuma locator god, she smacks it around when it keeps asking her to make illegal U-turns. The talk turns to the question of why the Zuma is voiced by a woman. Shouldn't there be a choice between a male or female voice? I told them if I had one with a sexy male voice, I wouldn't keep it in my car.
We had dinner at the hotel seafood restaurant. Delicious food, but better conversation. Dianna and Terri told fish stories. Really, fish stories since they are very capable fisherwomen who can handle several poles at a time. {snicker} We were sitting next a window that faced Bourbon Street and felt honored when several guys smashed their rear ends right at our table level. Very appetizing.
Finally, at 11:30 p.m. we call it a night and pass litered groups of
K-Con faithful discussing their favorite books and characters. I'll talk to them tomorrow. Now I need to grab an hour of sleep before we go out for our beignets tomorrow morning. BTW, how cool is this? They have a bag of goodies on the bed in the hotel room that includes ear plugs, an eye mask and a cd for relaxation to help you sleep. But explain this to me. If you put the ear plugs in, how do you listen to the cd?
Bottom Line: Day 1 and no naked, unconscious men spotted, but I've got 3 more days.
Posted by Barbara Vey on October 26, 2007 | Comments (11)
