Meeting Cathy

I would like to mention the day I met Cathy Cassidy
I love this picture, I think after I met her, I still couldn't believe it, and I must have looked at the picture again and again.
I met Cathy on a Thursday in May, 2009.
The time leading up to that day had been sad, because my family lost a family friend to breast cancer. We'd travelled to Sydney for the funeral.
That Thursday morning I was going to be late for school, so my mum just let me stay at home for the day. What I didn't know was that she had packed my suitcase, packed my Cathy Cassidy books and had them all waiting in the car before she asked me if I wanted to go to Melbourne. We live about 3-4 hours away from Melbourne and my auntie lives there, so it would just be a break for us to go down and spend some time with her. A break from the previous weeks.
During the car drive down, my mum said she had a surprise for me in Melbourne, so I pretty much racked my brain trying to figure out what it could be. Then, it was probably like a light bulb switched on in my head -ding!- and I took a guess.
''Cathy Cassidy! Are we going to see her?! She was going around Australia wasn't she? Wasn't she just in Sydney? ...No, it wouldn't be that, she probably isn't in Melbourne anymore."
Sure enough, that's what we were doing, my mum kept quiet a few more minutes and then she just turned proudly to me, nodded and said,"We are!"
It was in a cafe next to a Dymocks store, and we got there before most of the mad rush of other excited school girls. The cafe was so crammed once everyone came in! I remember Cathy coming into the cafe, and after we'd calmed down she talked to us all and there was time to ask questions before we lined up to get our books signed. I was last in line with my eight books in a pink string bag and cute ribbon wrapped around them.

I love how Cathy took the time to talk to each of us when it was our turn to to meet her and get our books signed, she was so lovely.

Bluejay xxx

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