Another brush with fame!

This past Wednesday night we joined about 500 other kids and their parents at our local Barnes & Noble to meet Mary Pope Osborne. Those of you without elementary school-aged kids most likely have no idea who she is, and thus are wondering why so many people would show up to meet her. Big fans like O, however, know her well as the author of the Magic Tree House book series. This is a favorite in our house because the main characters travel back in time to meet various historical figures via the books they find in the aforementioned Magic Tree House. You can see why the history buff would *heart* her books!

As for the event, we were maybe 100 people back in line, and we got to wait in the cookbook aisle. After staring at the titles of all the cake & cookie books for an hour or so, we were pretty hungry by the time the line started moving! My personal favorite was the Ultimate Peanut Butter book, which gave me lots of ideas even though I already firmly believe in putting peanut butter on everything. But I digress...

Our neighbor friends Maggie & Gracie were right around the corner from us in line, so we got to hang with them while we waited, and that made the hour+ go pretty quickly!

Here's the gang with their new books and then O with Mary Pope Osborne and her husband Will. Unfortunately because of the ginormous turnout they couldn't pose for pictures, but you can tell from O's smile how very exciting it was to meet them!