Book Festival

10 weeks! I'm starting thicken out a bit. It's hard to say if it's because Munchkin has been so hungry or just because I'm getting fluffier all on my own. Either way, I'm starting to realize that there is a little more of me to fit into my clothes each morning.

I wandered on down to the National Book Festival yesterday. I've wanted to go for the last couple of years but something has always come up. I was able to hear both Isabel Allende and Diana Gabaldon speak. I have several dozen "favorite" authors, and they are two of them. I really enjoyed it. My plan was to stay and have Diana Gabaldon sign her latest book for me. Munchkin had other plans, though.

1) Munchkin did NOT like to ride the Metro. I barely made it to the Mall without getting sick, and I knew I had to get back.

2) It was HOT. And crowded. And the long lines in the even hotter, more crowded tents weren't doing me any favors. When I realized that Diana Gabaldon wasn't signing books until a couple of hours after she spoke, I knew I wasn't going to be able to hang around.

3) I needed to eat something or I was going to pass out. I brought some carrot sticks (I never travel without something in my purse these days), but they were only going to get me so far. And Munchkin emphatically did not want me to eat a hot, greasy, fried whatever-was-being-offered-at-the-festival and get back on the Metro.

So, I had to head home. Luckily, though, a friend from work went down and got the book I lent her signed by Isabel Allende for me....wasn't that nice of her? I owe her big time.

To say that I'm a voracious reader is a bit of an understatement. One of the things I'm most looking forward to is reading to Munchkin. We all used to read to my brothers when they were little and it was a lot of fun. In fact, I will probably have to make a concerted effort to make sure the baby has enough clothes when he/she comes...I'm much more likely to buy too many children's books and forget about things like keeping him/her from going naked!