Catchup: Saturday and Sunday

We spent the weekend at the Festival of Books on on the UCLA campus. (See link for details of the event.) Wow! What another incredible experience.

R. literally jumped out of bed early Saturday morn while I groggily(sp?) followed. We left around 0915 (unusual since we normally don't crawl out of bed on weekends until after 1100.) We parked indoors at a choice spot nears the stairs which turned out to be a good thing since the sun shown all day and humid easily rose to the 80's.

We both play and work the Festival. While we saw lots of booths and authors, we attend mainly for the latter. Specifically, we brought books to be signed by attending authors.

Over 400 authors attended this year's fair. We saw and had books signed by (in no particular order): Julie Andrews, Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark, Lauren Haney, Richard Peck, Gary Soto, and many more. Saturday proved the worse day: hot, humid, the most people, and we had lots of books to be signed. Not being in shape didn't help, either, especially the staircase in the middle of the event. We walked up and down those bricks at least four times on Saturday alone. I don't know how the more...rotund folks attending the fair made it. I saw one toothpick youth trying to catch his breath at the top at one point.

On Saturday we walked and had dinner in Westwood.

Sunday proved to be less stressful since we had less books (though the weather rose even hotter.) Dined in West Hollywood that evening.