The writer's festival was today! Wooo! It was amazingly fun. The bus ride was kind of boring plus I was feeling dizzy going there but everything else was fine! When we first got there, me and my friends were on the look out for shops. Any kind. I have a problem with shopping without using my own money. I get a little crazy. Just a smidge. :) The only store that we found was an art shop. We didn't really do that much there. I bought a eraser that you can mold and a delete button eraser! We had to run back to the place we were supposed to meet because we thought we were late. We weren't but we did come later than most of the people. The first show we saw was featuring Kenneth Oppel and Richard Newsome. I don't really know how to describe the whole show because I'm not good at remembering everything. They basically just talked about their new books and answered a few questions. After the show, they were signing autographs. People had a chance to buy the books but sadly I didn't have enough money to buy them. So sad. :( I thought that I wasn't going to be able to get their autographs because I didn't have any paper on me either! Luckily one of my friends brought her notebook with her so we all ripped a page out had had them sign that. When I do get their books, I'll just tape in the autograph. :)
After we got our autographs, we went to look for food. Then someone got us lost when looking for the food market. I won't name who...yet. Finally we found it after asking two people for instructions. We ended up eating at a gelato shop on the way. I ate my sandwich from Safeway and everyone else bought something to eat. I also got a brownie but didn't finish it and had to give it to the person who got us lost. Three of us got gelato ice cream after as a dessert. I got cookies n cream. It was such a hard choice! They had my favourite flavors! I was torn apart deciding! We didn't have much time to wander after that so we just headed back. The next show was featuring Sharon McKay. She told us about her experiences while she was in Afghanistan and a few other things. She also had a little question time like the last show. I was able to buy her book Thunder in Kandahar though. I had just enough money! :) Me and my friends were late getting on the school bus because we were getting our books signed and had to wait until Sharon McKay was done talking to the people in front of us. We had to run back otherwise we would be stranded on Granville Island. This is definitely a trip that I'm going to remember.
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