Meg Cabot was amazing. Really, her talk was so funny and just… really really really reaalllyyyy great. I was kind of worried about it because of that You Shouldn’t Meet Your Heroes thing. I wouldn’t exactly say that she’s my “hero” or anything but I was still worried about her not being… nice or whatever ‘cause I didn’t want to spoil her books for myself. Like, a couple of years ago I was into My Chemical Romance in a big way, but then I saw an awful interview with Gerard way and I thought he was such a dickhead it totally put me off them. People say that it doesn’t actually affect the music, but it does, because whenever I listen to them now that stupid smug interview comes to mind. He was such an idiot and I’m so so SOOOO glad the same thing didn’t happen with Meg Cabot. She was brilliant. And funny. The whole thing wasn’t as formal as the other writers’ talks that I’ve been to. I’ve only been to two others but at both of them there was always an interviewer and the whole thing just seemed so formal. But with this there was just Meg on stage with a powerpoint showing some photos with helped her to explain her books a bit better. Most of the books are actually written around things that have happened to her, like in the Princess Diaries. Lol, that all starting when her mum went out with her teacher, so she wrote and story about it and when her friends told her that it wasn’t interesting enough she was like “Okay, I’ll make her a princess then.” Hehe. And lol, the kind of.. well, villain (i.e bitch of the book) Lana is real. And because when she first wrote the book she never actually thought that it would get published she didn’t bother changing this Lana girls name. After the first film came out she got a letter from Lana, and she was fully expecting it to be something about suing her but it started with “I never knew that you were a princess!”

From this we are supposed to learn that maybe mean girls aren’t deliberately mean. They’re just kind of stupid.

And Bath. Omg. I LOVE it there. I actually want to live there. It’s all beautiful and everything. We went to see the baths and they are really pretty. I don’t know if any of this will mean much to anybody apart from me but my favourite was the sort of inside one. The cool bath, were the people went to cool down. It’s full of money and they have naked “romans” projected onto the walls. Beware. They can kind of make you jump. :))
We tried the water as well. I didn’t know that it was going to be hot so that was a little bit of a shock. It tasted all right but kind of soapy. I didn’t realise we were drinking from the pool that we could see. I actually looked pretty dirty. :|
Ahh well. I’m not ill. Yet.

I like the way that there’s loads of people busking like in London. There was a guy juggling with fire when we first got there and a violin player with a funny expression it was really hard not to laugh at.

And the fudge. Yummy yummy amazing expensive fudge. Don’t be fooled by the “free sample” lady. The massive pieces aren’t the free samples. (we learnt the hard, expensive way).

We didn’t see Charlie. :(. But I guess you can’t have everything. We’ll probably tell Beanie and Kailee we did though. Just ‘cause it’s funny.

http://www.megcabot.com/

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