What happened at BEA? (Sun-Tues)

I had the oportunity to go to the Book Expo of America last week, and I had an awesome time! It was a great event and I met so many wonderful people. Here's my week of BEA.

I got to New York on Sunday, and mainly just hung out with Mitali, Alicia, Emilee, and Chelsea. We headed to Pier 17, which has an amazing view. Mitali also got hit on by some desperate, wanna-be med students. Later that night, we were joined by Kristi and were off to have dinner with JULIA HOBAN! I loved Willow, and I had met Julia once before, but still I was so excited! I also got to meet my other roommate other than Kristi, Cat, who was totally cool and had the coolest hair ever!

Monday morning I went off to tour New York University, and on my way home I had a lovely adventure called: Erica Gets Lost On The Subway for 2 Hours and Ends Up In Brooklyn. It was very fun. I had no clue where I was, and I am awful with the subway system. After I finally found my way back to my hotel, I grabbed my books for the Teen Author Carnival and headed off! The TAC was so much fun! I finally got to meet Susane Colasanti (who I have tried to meet twice now!), Heidi R. Kling, Sarah Ockler and so many other stellar authors! I also got to see Stephanie Kuehnert once again, who is awesome!

Tuesday was another day of visiting colleges, today was Columbia. I went with Sarah and Khy. After that we headed to the Javits Center to pick up our badges for BEA. On our way, we saw Stephanie Kuehnert walking away and I had a minor spaz attack. I was like "OMG! IT'S STEPHANIE KUEHNERT"

I then ventured off to tea at a shop called Sweetie Pie with a huge group of bloggers (Khy, Khy's Mom, Susan, James, Pam, Laura, Alea, Gail, Cat, and I think I'm missing another person). It was fun, and at the end they served us like bite size cakes. They gave Gail orange cake, and she politely asked for chocolate. The lady were very insistant and was like "Try a bite. Just try it" Gail politely said, "I don't like orange." The worker "I don't like orange either, but this is great" This went on for a bit, and finally Gail was brought her chocolate cake. I teased her all week about this, and kept telling her to eat the cake, just try a bite. It was the most expensive tea ever!

Then that night I went to see Promises, Promises on Broadway with Heidi R Kling, Sarah Ockler, Kody Keplinger, and Chelsea Campbell which was amazing! We didn't get to see Kristin Chenoweth, but oh my gosh can her understudy sing. She had an amazing voice! *wishes I could sing that well* It was so much fun!

Check back tomorrow for more of what happened at BEA!