So, I'm a big fan of ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the morning. Mike Greenberg wrote a non-sports related novel. He was on a book tour, promoting the book, so he came through Raleigh. I wanted to go meet him. Ella decided she wanted to come with me. I made it clear that this would be a LOT of waiting in line and very very boring. She didn't care, she wanted to come. It was, probably, a bad idea.
Here's the saga, as told by my twitter feed:
When we arrived, the line was out the door and around the side of the building. It was a gorgeous day, but it was hard to stand out in the parking lot, waiting, since we'd skipped the breakfast stop to be there on time.
The above picture was almost 2 hours after we'd arrived. She was about to lose her shit. For real. About 10 minutes before we actually got to the end of the line, she started to have a wee meltdown with crying and big tears and having to really focus herself to get it together.
When we finally made it to the end of the line, Greenberg looked right at her and said, "you're Ella, and you're seven and you don't like waiting in line."
It was, in a word, awesome.
Plus, afterward, we got to go out for pancakes at Elmo's. Overall, a great day.
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