yesterday was a FURLOUGH day for all the employees of the First Evangelical Free Church of Fullerton, and CONVENIENTLY {aka. AMAZINGLY, PERFECTLY, WONDERFULLY} enough it was ALSO the day that Ina Garten {aka. the Barefoot Contessa} was in Santa Monica signing her newest cookbook "
how easy is that?" {ps can we stop there for just a second, her cookbooks are the most beautiful cookbooks i have ever seen - the pages are PLASTERED with pictures of food that looks TOO GOOD TO EAT along with darling photos of Ina along with Jeffrey and their closest friends. SO DEAR!}
anyway, once I found out that Ina was going to be in MY part of the country AND i had the day off, it was settled, I had to go meet her. in person. finally. ahh be still my beating heart. originally megan and i were going together -but her ceramics class got in the way. THANKFULLY my dear friend {and small group leader} Rhonda agreed to go in her place.
Rhonda and I left my place just after 12pm thinking we would be to Santa Monica by 1pm, meeting Ina by 1:30 or so and back on the road for home by 3pm at the latest. WELL, unfortunately the directions I had were TOTALLY wrong, so we didn't make it to Williams Sonoma until 2pm...then the line was CRAZY LONG...but eventually we made it through and I had my 30 seconds with the OH SO DARLING and ENDEARING Ina... she said, "so lovely to meet you, i hope you enjoy your new book!"
this is the BEST photo I got - the personnel of Williams Sonoma that were running the signing were MILITANT and kept the line moving at a rapid pace - so pretty much every photo is blury and they made it CLEAR that there would be no posed photography, so they shattered my dreams to have my picture made with Ina - because really this doesn't count - but at least i can say that in 2010 i was able to meet my 2 favorite television personalities...and that my friends is saying SOMETHING! ha!
1 comment:
She looks smaller that she does on TV... so glad you were able to go though!
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