I will be posting this week about Lance's return, I'm just waiting for access to some pictures...
On another exciting front, and what a WONDERFUL week it was, Andrew got to attend his first Harry Potter book release party on Friday night.
Scott found out about a great one at the wonderful independent booksellers Red Balloon Book Shop and we took a late afternoon nap in order to be chipper by the 11pm party start time.
The shop had actors to give us little glimpses of the action from each of the previous 6 books, and a snitch drop at midnight. The actor that was the MC who played Mr. Weasley was wonderful. It was especially charming to me to see so many older teens, say 16-18, dressed up as various characters and as dewy wide-eyed with excitement as the littler kids. One handsome football hero look alike was talking in a gush to his two parents, who he didn't seem even a little embarrassed to be hanging out with and sharing his heart with. Love that.
We had pizza and butterbeer (rootbeer) and when the snitch dropped at midnight balloons dropped and we threw confetti everywhere and horns were tooting and it was wonderfully exciting.
That is where we abandoned the little store and headed out to buy our book. The line went round the block of those who had prepaid for their books...after them we could line up as having not prepaid. We decided to take advantage, at 12:45am, of living in a large metro area, and jumped in the truck.
Yes, as much as I hate the big box world, the UNCOOL nature, the lack of party and the OPEN 24 HOURS is what brought us to Eagan to buy our book from...Walmart.
Very uncool, but half an hour later we were home with our discounted book reading! Reading! That is the goal, more than buying the book at full price from a "cool" location. RIGHT?
A few photos from the mele':
And now? Now we are on day three of reading aloud the entire book together. A wonderful and quiet family time. We are about half way now, so it will probably be later in the week before we finish.
Talk to you then!
Well how fabulous is that...!! Enjoy the week!
Posted by: Adriann | July 23, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Oh know...you sold your soul to the Wally-mart. Scandal. :) just kidding.
My sisters and I went to B&N at the MOA and got ours in about 15 minutes. I figured we would be waiting longer but it went pretty darn fast. I took some pictures of some people dressed up, one of which was a very good Hagrid. One of these days I'll get it up on my blog. They had some actors up on a stage, some experiments and crafts you could make (HP related of course) too.
What did you think of the book? Just wondering everyone's reactions. Refer to my blog for my thoughts. http://jennifermartinovici.typepad.com
Posted by: Jennifer | July 24, 2007 at 03:08 PM