Breaking Dawn

So.. alot of my friends have been practicly begging me to start reading the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Mind you... I am very particular about what books I will read and will not read. Everywhere I go, I see people reading these books. Mainly women my age and a little older. I finally started reading Twlight back in June and I must confess that I wasn't able to put the darn book down!! Tim would tease me about it everyday because it would go with me eveywhere I went, the park, the pool, trips, car rides. I finished all three books in a week and each book is like 600 plus pages. Mind you, these books are for teenagers and they are easy to read, but I am person who doesn't like to breeze through. I like to take my time, absorb them. However, you can't do that with the Twilight books because they grab you and pull you in. So... needless to say, I was pretty bumed out when I finished the three books and I had to wait almost two months for Breaking Dawn. When Breaking Dawn finally did come out, I was thrilled. I am not one of those obsessive fans who like pre-ordered their book five months ago, but I must confess that I did get my copy of the book on its release date. I hadn't planed on going to any of the parties or anything but one thing led to another... and viola there I was standing in line in the Sandy Wal-mart at 12:15 at night.
It is really funny how these turn of events took place. We started the evening by picking up my father from his Salt Lake office ( he lives in LA but has to come to Utah a lot for business) and dropping him and the boys off at the airport to pick up my dad's rental car. Tim and I had a wedding reception to go to in Bountiful and we didn't want to take the children with us, so my dad opted to watch the boys for us and take them to a movie. Tim and I headed to the reception and getting to Bountiful an hour early, we had some time to kill. We went to Barnes and Noble and looked around for awhile. You could tell that they were getting ready for the big kick-off. I was kind of chuckling to myself a little bit because I thought it was a little funny how people were getting so hyped up about this book .They had red, and black balloones everywhere, cake, punch, and streamers. A women was sitting at a little table and people were swarming over to her to pre-order thier copy of Breaking Dawn. Anyway, life went foward and Tim and I left to head to the reception. In LDS culture, receptions typically don't last very long. You greet the bride and groom, comment on how cute they look, and grab some finger foods. Tim and I were in and out in 30 min. Sooo.. the question became "What do we do now?" We couldn't just go home and waste the free babysitting! That would be kind of lame. We had seen many of the movies that were out... we had all ready eaten earlier so dinner was out of the question, a lot of our friends were either out of town or doing the same thing we were, having a date night.... so we drove around brainstorming about what to do. Finally, we caved and I dragged him to see "Mama Mia" at Thanksgiving Point. My dad had a hotel room at the Marriot and he was going to take the boys back there to swim when there movie was done, so we figured that it would be easy to just pick them up there and head home after the movie. I guess fate had a different plan. When the film was over, my dad called and said that he would just keep the boys in his room for the night and that we could pick them up in the morning. Since it was all ready midnight and the kids were asleep, Tim and I agreed to that arangement and decided to head home. On the way to the car, Tim suggested that we go to Barnes and Noble and he would get me a copy of Breaking Dawn. I figured, why not, we are out... the kids are taken care of... lets do it! We pulled into the Sandy Barnes and Noble at about 12:30 thinking we could dash in and dash out!!! Wrong! It was mass pandamonium and choas. I looked at Tim and said " this isn't worth it to me, let's just go, I can get it another time." However, Tim being Tim said "No, we are here, we are going to do this, let's see what is happening at Wal-Mart."
"Good idea, I said, but if it is packed with people, we are going home." We get to Wal-mart at about 12:45 and people are streaming in and out with their plastic Wal-mart bags and through the plastic, you could see the familiar red and black colors of the book jacket. Obviously we were not original in our thinking. We dashed over to electronics were the sighns directed us to go and thinking that we would be waiting in line for an hour decided that we should just scope it out first. Lucky for us, we were in and out in 20 mins, and I had my copy of Breaking Dawn.
For all you Stephenie Meyer fans, it was worth it. This book is her best.