A Fun Day
Josi is a most amiable companion and the many hours of driving was filled with good conversation. We stopped first in Idaho Falls where we met up with Erin Klinger who treated us to breakfast and accompanied us to our signing at Deseret Book. It was great to see her and to meet the staff of the Idaho Falls DB. They were very gracious and we enjoyed our time there. Toward the end of that signing we received a semi-worried phone call from my publicist wondering why I wasn’t at my scheduled signing. Turns out we were double booked and the Idaho Falls Seagull was expecting us as well. So we made a hasty farewell to Db and headed over for a quick visit to Seagull.
It’s good to be wanted 
Next stop was Boise Seagull. Loved the staff there and had a great time with Stephanie and Meghan. Cute store–had to work hard to resist buying stuff. Since my recent status of employment change, I need to be responsible with all things financial.
I got a refill of Dr Pepper and it seriously tasted like watermelon had been squeezed into it. Not exactly unpleasant, but most assuredly odd.
Note to self: wear wrist brace while driving. Remember the GPS is your friend so don’t talk back to her. Try not to sing along to music while Josi catnaps in the passenger’s seat (good thing she isn’t cat napping in the driver’s seat)
Here are some pics from Day one:
Josi, me, and Erin breakfasting at Dixie's
Idaho Falls Signing
Stephanie, Josi, Me, and Meghan in Boise
Way to be loved, Julie. That is weird about the watermelon in your dr. pepper. I fight with technology all the time. I say talk back. What’s she going to do?…wait. Blogger fights back with me. On second thought, don’t fight.
Man, I wish I were with you guys. Sounds like a BALL!
Glad to hear the trip is going well so far.
And sorry, no matter how good a friend she might be, I will always, ALWAYS talk back to the GPS. I call mine Carly.
My GPS is named Gina Penelope Smithson. And I yell at her all the time.
Julie and I discussed for a long time of marketing the insolent GPS. So you feel good about yelling at it because it’s mocking you. Saying things to you like “You missed the turn idiot!” “I can’t believe you actually made it to your destination.” “Why are you driving? You should be in the right lane.” You know so you can actually fight with it. I actually did override some in Julie’s dad’s with my voice so that it would say a few of those things to him.