Celebrity Sighting

Do you all read martawrites, by the most fabulous Marta? If not, you should.

On Saturday Chris and I were strolling around the gardeners market when I walked past Marta herself, in the flesh. I debated stalking her just to say hi. Chris thought I was crazy and I may have proved him right by marching over to introduce myself to a complete stranger. She is tiny and so cute, and completely gracious to be so nice to a random girl. I'm still kicking myself because Chris was standing right next to me with the camera, but I didn't think to get a picture until we were back to the car.

When we got back to the car I had to explain to Chris who Marta is. You know, her mom is the Travelin' Oma, the one who inspired me to start saving for a trip to Europe. And once I had him straight, I had to call Whitney, a fellow Marta fan, to share my exciting news.

Our conversation went a little like this:

Me: Whit! I just met Marta! At the gardeners market. I just went up to her and introduced myself.
Whit: You did?! I saw her last night while we were volunteering at the MS ride and I was going to. Brian thought I was weird. He was like, 'How do you know her?'
Me: Yeah, Chris thought I was weird, too. But I did it.

(That's one thing Marta and I have in common, best friend cousins named Whitney.)

Moral of the story? I love blogging. And Marta is just as wonderful in real life as she is on her blog. (She wrote about our encounter here, too sweet.)