For Family and Friends: Minas Book Fair

These last few weeks have been preeeety hectic work-wise due to us participating in our state's 10-day book fair, as well as preparing for another fair which we're participating in simultaneously in another state. My dad's business partner is overseeing the other fair, so we all pitched in with the one here. I work in the administrative/finance department of my dad's company, but it's fun to go to a fair every once in a while.

Things were going just great, better than we expected, when suddenly two days before the end of the fair the organizers canceled it due to some problem with the building caused by a storm. It's ridiculous! The building belongs to the state government, why the hell didn't they fix it and have it in perfect working conditions BEFORE the event began?! We couldn't believe it! The last days are usuallly the best sales-wise since people put off going till the end.

Oh well, at least we were able to take the girls one of the days, even if only for a short while. After the abrupt ending and packing everything up, we went out to celebrate our successes.

A few pics from the first day:

Laurie being a tired grump:

Entertaining herself while Mommy works:

Alina had started reading "The Princess Diaries" series and after walking around a bit, she got the next book she was on, sat down next to me, and read the entire thing in the three hours she stayed there. She bought the first book with her allowance (half-price since we work with it), and was planning on buying the other ones, but I doubt she'll do that since she's already on the last book after having borrowed all the other ones from the company as if it were a library. She has watched the movies that came out based on the series and when I asked her which she preferred, she replied, "The books! Because then I can imagine everything!"