Bibliolicious Book Babes

Oy, I have a lot to talk about in my next few posts. What a weekend!! Meeting up with some of our fabulous book bloggers, partying with the children's lit folk and then experiencing Book Expo on Sunday. I cannot begin to describe how pooped and happy I am.

Ok. First, those book blog babes. It was all Sassymonkey's fault!

She wanted to meet up with as many of us book bloggers as possible before she moved back to Montreal. How could I say no? And thankfully, plenty of the other book babes didn't say no, either! So along with Sassymonkey and myself, there was Kate, Robin, Melanie and Deanna.

We met up at Solferino on Wellington Street East. I'd never been there before – it's a pretty small place, but they serve amazing gelato. And what an experience getting there! It just happened to be the weekend of Woofstock, that crazy dog festival, so I had to walk through crowds and crowds of dog-lovers and their pooches, in all shapes and sizes (even cute little pugs were there!) And there was also that celebration of the Canadian Walk of Fame going on, but personally, I think Woofstock was way more fun. But the best fun was definitely to be had with the book babes, who talked of books and authors and writing and Montreal and shoe lust. Here's a few shots from the afternoon:

Deanna on the left with Kate.

Sassymonkey et moi.

Melanie (she came all the way from Stratford!)

Kate and Robin.

Melanie and me.

A funny thing about our book blog meet-up. It just so happened to coincide with a Blog TO photo-blogger meet-up! What are the chances of that happening? Here's a shot of the book babes enjoying the photos (we were so engrossed in our conversations I don't think we noticed all the photos being hung up on the walls. They weren't there when we first arrived!)

Anyway, I had a fabulous time, and was thrilled to get to meet some new blogger faces, as well as see some familiar ones. Thanks so much, Sassymonkey, for making this happen! (And thanks, Deanna, for springing for the gelato! Yum!)

If you want to read a much more interesting and in-depth account of our day, do take a peak at Robin's wonderful post!

Stay tuned for my upcoming post about the Children's Gala night!

Comments

[Beth]

Names to faces! Great!

[Beth]

ME AGAIN.
I should have said "faces to names."
Duh.

[Historia]

Great photos Patricia, thanks.

It was a great day. I was so tired, that after I finished posting, I stayed up to 3 AM reading a book I grabbed off a sales table before we found the school carnival.

Historia

[sassymonkey]

Thanks for posting the pics. My personal laptop decided to die and I need to fix it so it's cutting into blogging time. *sob*

Thank you so much for coming. :)

[ragdoll]

It was a lovely afternoon, for sure. Time just flew by -- and I'm so glad that I got to meet everyone in person.

But those photos...wow, everyone else looks great but I'd put a giant paper bag over my head. :)