Our Meet Up

I was beyond stoked when I found out that Rachel would be coming to the UK, Rachel and I are always emailing each other either blog related or just gushing our love for books. So Rachel decided it would be cool to spend a day together when she came to London. I've been to London so many times that I've lost count, but getting on the tubes or train I've always had someone go with me, so making this trip alone was a hugely nerve wracking experience. I'm a tiny little thing as it is so I had to blend in amongst the rushing commuters acting like I knew what I was doing! Thank goodness for Rachel, she was a total star, she knew her way around the train station and tubes, otherwise I would have been a complete lost puppy. Also I'm completely shy when it comes to meeting new people, hence the reason I had never met any bloggers before in my life. But Rachel was the best, we had a great time nattering about books non-stop and ended up having a great blogoversary day out! 

On our way to Waterstones (this of course was our top priority) I got distracted by the M & M's store and I knew I had to go in. I was like a little child when I got in, they had four floors of M & M goodies, souvenirs and adorable cuddly toys. The best thing was they had this gorgeous smell of M & M's wafting around everywhere you went and of course before we left we had to get our photo taken with Mr. M & M!


Waterstones Piccadilly is the biggest book store in Europe, I was hoping they would have a massive YA section, it was quite big and Rachel and I were quite surprised by the Aussie books they had, we both kind of got excited when we saw Kirsty Eagar's Raw Blue on the shelves! I think I was in so much awe of their variety of books that I totally forgot to take any photos of their books, but Rachel did so we will try and share some with you at a later point. Rachel and I had a good time discussing which covers were better, the US or UK, I highly favoured the US ones of course. After spending a while eyeing up the books I was quite good as I only walked out with two; Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins and Hold Still by Nina Lacour (my intention was only to leave with one, but when I got to the tills, the books had a buy one get one half off offer, and I knew I couldn't pass!). Rachel was so good as she resisted the temptation to grab at all the pretty covers, I think I need to take some pointers from her.

The rest of the day was spent gossiping about books and munching food. I'm glad that I got the chance to meet Rachel, because I had the best day ever.