{"id":7192,"date":"2004-06-02T07:55:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-02T07:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/06\/day_1.html"},"modified":"2004-06-02T07:55:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-02T07:55:55","slug":"day_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/06\/day_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 was mostly driving, of course. Got to our hotel mid-afternoon, which gave some of us a chance for what was most anticipated &#8211; a swim. A &#8220;swim&#8221; for Joseph being sitting on the steps leading into the pool.<\/p>\n<p>There was no business yesterday evening, so we handed it over to Katie, drove down to Naperville, where one of her favorite authors, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andersonsbookshop.com\/events.php\">Eoin Colfer, was appearing at Anderson&#8217;s Bookshop<\/a>. We parked ourselves at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loumalnatis.com\/\">Lou Malnati&#8217;s<\/a> on the next block while she went to listen to Colfer spin yarns and have a book signed. I&#8217;ll tell you that the rest of the audience of was predominantly boys &#8211; a good sign &#8211; boys are, indeed reading something!<\/p>\n<p>Today, Michael will take himself over to St. Charles to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbte.net\/\">RBTE <\/a>, then return mid-afternoon to get the rest of us. We&#8217;ll wander the exhibits a bit, then I&#8217;ll sign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1592761011\/spiritualthoug09\/103-0174888-5303029\">De-Coding<\/a> for OSV for an hour, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/082941584X\/qid=1086180929\/sr=1-1\/ref=sr_1_1\/104-7048274-1411124?v=glance&amp;s=books\">Heroes for Loyola<\/a> during the big, mass autograph session the exhibit does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Day 1 was mostly driving, of course. Got to our hotel mid-afternoon, which gave some of us a chance for what was most anticipated &#8211; a swim. A &#8220;swim&#8221; for Joseph being sitting on the steps leading into the pool. 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