Ahhh….our adventure-filled weekend with books didn’t end with the Big Bad Wolf Sale..
Continuing off from Caitlynn’s jottings about the impressive Wolf sale, that Sunday, that is 2 days after venturing into the Wolf’s lair, we took a long drive towards Westport in Port Klang to visit the World’s Largest floating Bookstore – the Logos Hope, which will be docked there till 23 October.
We arrived at the terminal quite late into the evening that Sunday, thinking that there wouldn’t be a crowd already. But oh, how wrong we were! The waiting line to get on board took us about an hour! Looks like Caitlynn IS right! Malaysians are indeed a reading society!
Anyway, Papa seemed more frustrated, not with the long queue, but that he had forgot to lug along his camera for this trip. Sigh. So all throughout the queue, we had to make do with a less than stellar quality camera from his phone…hee!
In fact, the queue was so long both Caitlynn and I managed to finish our dinner before we could board the ship! Yup, Mama was smart enough to cook some porridge and bring along the trip. 
So, what are my thoughts about being on the ship with books?
1. Hmmm…didn’t feel like being on a ship at all. Probably the fact that it was not moving had a very big thing to do with it..
2. Crowd was pretty crazy and not much room to run about in the bookstore..
3. Quite sad that we didn’t get to go round and explore the other sections of the ship. I was pretty sure I saw more than three levels of decks from the outside…
4. Nice activities that kept children busy. Was quite happy they prepared some stations for kids to colour, play and take pictures too!
5. Oh yeah, I also loved those donation coin machines that makes coins swirl round and round and round and round before eventually being swallowed up by the hole in the middle. Dizzying but exciting! Hee!
Of course, I had never been onboard a similar vessel, like the MV Doulos, but it is interesting to note some thoughts from Papa as he compared both ships:
- Although Logos is a bigger ship, there seemed to be be more book titles on the Doulos. Strange..
- The Doulos even allowed the people to explore more areas around the ship. And that actually made the Doulos seemed larger.
- From the crowds coming out, it looks as if many people did not buy many books from the ship. Perhaps it was more of getting the ‘ship’ experience, or perhaps it could be due to another book sale also happening at the same time?
- Books were better organised on the Logos. Papa remembered doing a lot of ‘treasure hunting’ onboard the Doulos..
Anyway, we certainly had a lot of fun although we only managed to clock in about 3.5 hours from the queuing time. When we left, it was already pretty dark but all in all, we certainly had a lot of fun on board a floating bookstore!
Here are the other photos taken on our way out..
