So I did it. I spent the entire day Monday with one of my besties, Goldilocks, stalking the Pioneer Woman. *
I woke up early, called Goldilocks to discuss our plan, and jumped into action. By jumping I mean I crawled out of my nice, warm, dry bed to prepare to stand in the cold, drizzly weather to meet Ree Drummond, the Pioneer Woman. Had to change my outfit plans so I ended up being warm and comfortable but definitely frumpy. Skinny jeans and weird loafer shoes make my feet look like those of a duck. Not a good look. I did loiter around enough to have time to take her Smarty Pants: KC Edition Quiz. Then, I ran through Starbucks then picked up a dozen doughnuts from Lamars to gift to the Drummonds (I’m not an amateur), then had to get gas.
Made it over to Will Wyatt’s Cowboy Couture about a half an hour before the signing was to begin. Goldilocks was right behind me. Thankfully they were letting folks in early and it turned out she was already signing books. As we are legit stalkers, our ticket numbers were really low, thus putting us in the first group. The line moved pretty slowly which was a good sign that she was spending a little time with each person. We needed that as we had brought the following items as gifts:
Dozen mixed Lamars doughnuts
Kansas City hand towel from Pride of Kansas City
Small bottle of Gates BBQ sauce (seriously, it was like a dixie cup size. Way to splurge, Goldilocks!)
list of the 10 reasons we should be invited down to stay at their lodge
our blogging business cards (I’m waiting for Goldilocks to send a pic of her card. It was a little… homemade.)
We also brought a gift for her brother Mike which consisted of a KCFD hat and shirt and a KCPD hat and shirt.
We made it up there, gave our gifts, and she was the nicest thing ever. She was sweet and funny, gorgeous and stylish, attentive and personal. We wanted to take her with us for the rest of the day, but she has some books to sign or something. And try to ignore whatever that weird thing going on in the back of my hair.
So we reluctantly slithered out of the store then sat in my car scarfing down our doughnuts and drinking our Starbucks that was not at all warm at that point. Then we noticed that we’d been sitting there for 2 hours so we should probably go eat lunch. Eating those doughnuts made us hungry.
We started to go to Olive Garden, but quickly revised that to Garozzo’s. Ree would have wanted us to as it is a KC original. As it was post-lunch, we had the restaurant mostly to ourselves. The service was awesome and the food almost as good as if Ree had made it herself.
We spent a couple of hours over our lunch and laughing obnoxiously at everything we said. We are really quite funny. We shot a few more pics of ourselves (being funny) and then decided to head down to Rainy Day Books.
To be continued…
* When I was uploading these pictures this morning, Peanut was looking with me. Her remark to the first pic of Ree above was, “She’s pretty. Wow. She is pretty. And she has healthy hair.”
