Book release party for Breaking Dawn

So I am a fan of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. My sister Michelle introduced it to me at Christmas by giving me the first book. After I read that I ran right out and bought the next two books (I was hooked and had to know what was going to happen!). When she gave me the first book she explained it as "fiction on crack" - that explains it quite well. After finishing the third book I still wanted more, so I was delighted to find out that there was going to be a fourth book, but it wasn't going to be released until August!! That was way too far away. So I devoured everything on Stephenie Meyer's website about the series. And then I was even more delighted to find out that there was going to be a movie about the first book and they were filming it right here in Portland!! But that won't come out until December! I can't wait. So I have been counting down until this fourth book was released, which was August 2nd at 12am.

Since there is a HUGE fan base for this series they were having book release parties at about every bookstore that was going to carry it. So of course I had to go to one. There are a lot of other people in my ward who love the series too, so they all wanted to go as well. The party started at 9:30pm August 1st and was going until they started selling the book at midnight. Now I had already pre-ordered the book on Amazon.com months ago, which I realize was kind of lame since I wouldn't receive it on the 2nd, but I wanted to check out the party anyway.

Here are the people who went: Challene, Lindsey R, Lindsey W, Holly, Becki, Amy M, Rosie, Jenn and me. Even more showed up later.

Since this series is mostly geared toward teenagers, we were like the oldest people there. But I must say that there are still a ton of people in their 20s, 30s, etc. that read the books. My parents even read the books.

The first portion of the festivities were trivia questions and I answered one right, so I got this totally awesome pin and stickers - not sure what I'm going to do with them but at least I won something. The question was actually really easy and I just happened to be the first to raise my hand, but we were also in the front and center. The question was something like "Who is the person that everyone describes as inhumanly gorgeous?" and the answer was Rosalie.

After the trivia portion was over there were a lot of other festivities scheduled, but when they started to do a debate between Team Edward and Team Jacob and the first question was asking about what a soul mate is and like a fourteen year old girl started answering, me and the other people in my car turned to each other and said it looked like it was going to be lame so we left. Plus we were all getting tired and none of us were getting the book at midnight anyway. It was fun while we were there though. I should be getting the book today, but I won't be starting it until next week. I am leaving tomorrow to go to CA for my friends wedding and will be busy the whole time so I will read it when I get back. But I am getting pretty dang excited!