Breathless statistics

Here we are before our first event.

Hi guys. I got home yesterday from the Breathless Reads USA tour. I did not do the Canada leg because when I was invited, the Canadian dates were planned for this Mon and Tues with a return home on Wednesday and my work and grad school is mainly on Mon-Tues-Wed and I just couldn't afford to miss two weeks. I heard Canada was awesome though, so I hope to go someday.

I had a blast on the East Coast and in Memphis and thought it would be fun to share some random statistics for the US part of the tour.

Number of tour days: 6 + 2 travel days = 8

Number of events: 6 bookstores + 4 school visits + 4 blogger interviews = 14

Number of flights: 9 (for me--varies on how far you went to get there and back).

Number of times Beth almost killed us driving to South Carolina: 0 (She was awesome).

Number of times I forgot to open the mini-van door and let people out of the back: 6? 7?

Number of flights Jessica slept blissfully through while I looked on in envy: most of them
Number of hours spent in transit from airport to hotel to school to bookstore: 15?
Number of motion-sickness pills I took: 7
Number of days before I started to lose my voice: 3
Number of hottie male YA authors who moderated for us: 1--Hi Nathan!
Number of high school boys who proposed to Elizabeth: 1 

Number of times we made fun of Morgan for how she says "about": 30? 40?

Number of things I accidentally left behind in hotel rooms: 3

Number of nights I got more than 4 hours of sleep: 1

Number of twiglets Elizabeth tricked each of us into eating: 1

With the zesty flavor of blackened toast combined with sun-baked dirt, twiglets might just make you swear off snack food forever. Is this why the British are so slender?

***Apparently tricking non-Brits into trying twiglets is a Thing. Watch Justin Bieber enjoy his first tasty bite.

Number of students at our biggest school event: 250-280

Number of attendees at our smallest event: maybe 25-30
Number of schools where the kids cheered like we were rock stars: 1
Number of schools where the kids started to fall asleep five feet from us: 1
Number of days I turned on the TV in my hotel room: 1

Number of days I had time (and energy) to work on revisions: 2

Number of days I had time (and energy) to exercise: 1

Number of NYT bestsellers Beth brought to our final event: 1

Number of churches we got kicked out of: 1
Number of times Jessica got carded: 2

Number of tiny cupcakes I ate on Valentine's Day: 3
Number of times we saw the beach in Miami: 0 :(
Number of future retreats we planned due to things like not seeing the beach: 3? 4?
Number of critique partners I met for the very first time: 2 (YAY!)
Number of awesome bloggers, readers, and booksellers we met: a kajillion! :)

Number of awesome TV appearances: 1--go Morgan!

Number of awkward and unflattering photographs snapped: I don't even want to know. But no worries, here's more evidence of our loveliness. What an awesome team :)

Here we are after our last event. Yay! We made it.

***Check the comments for some awesome additions :)