A Private Session With Red Phoenix

If you follow my adventures on Facebook, then you saw the pictures I posted throughout the day. I am putting them here as a journaling, so to speak...

We were given pins with this on it-- to signify a face to face meeting!

All ready to check out of my hotel and head to the Fan Breakfast.

The tables all ready for us fans!

Red loves her masks... and wears them --- mystique and mystery... 

Me and Red! 

The front table. Complete with it's own mask!

Red answering our questions. We all submitted three when we entered to win a spot at the breakfast!

Red making sure all our door prize entries were all stirred up before J drew names. (I never expect to win anything drawn like this.. I think in 47-- ok almost 48 years it has NEVER happened.)

The masks from our table. J gave me permission to take them with me... so they may or may not be here in the house. 

Talk about a milestone. I have only read her books electronically but I purchased this one and another one and Red signed them. They were the first books she had signed. I didn't know about that until after the signing and I have to admit, I like it. To see Red's comments on the picture, see here. 

Oh wait, this was taken in the car-- at the gas station in Savannah where I filled up. My friend Bill wondered where my mask was after seeing a picture of Red.... I actually had a pic of me in a mask to show him!

And yes, I read most of my books on my iPad. And I have read all of Red's on my iPad so it made sense to have her sign that! A metallic sharpie-- in pink. Alas, no red! But I think it is so cool to have an autographed iPad!

Arriving in Savannah

It is a good thing I don't mind fancy.  

The trip went pretty fast until after I stopped in Metter. I got a latte and stopped to look at the lake across the street..

I even had a little company. 

Metter is about 70 miles or so from Savannah.  And I thought I was in the home stretch. 

That will teach me. 

About 10 or 20 miles outside of Savannah, the skies opened up. Horrendously so!

We were all going about 10 miles per hour and we all had our hazard lights on. 

I almost pulled over. I absolutely could not see the road. But like I always told my Mama, if I stop it will rain forever. If I keep going, maybe I will drive out of it. 

Finding unknown exits when you can't see the road is a joke. GPS didn't know exactly where my hotel was and told me "you have reached your destination" a good two miles before I actually reached my destination. 

The room is clean. Is dry. (Thank God, after all the water today.). It has a kitchenette (not that I will need it) and a bathroom. Even better, they have free wifi. 

When you turn off the harsh overhead light, the red glass ball on the table lamp and that light bounced off the cranberry colored walls. It makes me feel like I am in a bordello. Not that I have ever been in a bordello, mind you. But I do read.

And red fits in with the theme of the weekend. I get to meet Red Phoenix tomorrow!  Have breakfast with her and then attend a book signing. Tomorrow is going to be awesome!  So the red is a good sign!

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In all my years of hotel staying. And we are talking a lot of years. This is the first time I had the phone ring and have the front desk ask me I got settled in ok and if I needed anything.  Wow! 

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This post is being posted from my blogger app on my iPad. Hopefully that won't mess things up too much. I will fix any problems when I get back to my laptop. 

I didn't even bring it with me since all my focus tomorrow will be on Red and maybe Kallypso Masters if I can find her at the AAD Conference book signing and there didn't seem to be much point just for one evening. Anything else I need to do I can do from my iPad.