Twilight Madness

Wow. What a night!! What a blast!! What a Twilight high!! I have been dying to post about it, but, you know, I've been a little busy reading a certain book...which I'm only halfway done with. (I have a family, people!) Anyway, it was such a fun night. We started out with a little Red Robin.
There were other people there dressed in full-on Prom attire. We suspected they were headed to the party, and after running into them in the bathroom, found out we were right. We laughed and ate and debated "Team Edward" vs. "Team Jacob." (I was very polite and let everyone state their opinions. Then I laughed and pointed at the Team Jacob people.)

(from left to right: Jodi, Rachael, Lisa)

Jodi is showing Rachael her New Moon tattoos that she cut up and passed around. Of course,
Jodi claimed the awesome "Edward" one, so I wound up with a big flower tat on my arm. It was still cool. We had so many people come up to us, gasping, asking where we got the tattoos. I felt pretty special.

At 10:00 we headed over to Barnes & Noble. My first clue should have been how easy it was to find a parking spot. Yeah, that's because all the other attendees had been dropped off by their mothers. I'm not kidding. We were some of a very few who actually had high school diplomas. I knew there would be a lot of teenagers running around in formal attire, I just really thought there would be more, well, adults. At this point we tried to blend into the self-help books and figured out a way to pass the time for the next two hours. So we took lots of pictures...

(My sister Amy and me. And that's my Team Edward shirt. Yes, it's different than
my original one I posted about. Long story. This one was waaaaaay better.)

(Two beautiful chicas, Lisa and her cousin [by marriage] Danielle)

Ran into this adorable couple, who were fully decked out for the costume contest.
Aren't they cute?

So I really wanted to showcase some of the other people at the party, although I felt
a little creepy walking around snapping pictures of complete strangers. (Although not as creepy as the guy walking around trying to enlist unsuspecting teenage girls into his Satanic cult. No, I'm not kidding. I wish I was.)

These were some fellow "Twilight Moms" who also felt very awkward being there.


This is a girl, dressed up as Edward.


A bride and bridesmaid.


They were taking free Polaroids there, so of course we had to get some.

Me, Amy, Jodi

Me and Shayla


And I had to buy the limited-time, special edition, first time ever
Twilight Saga chocolate bar. Best 4 bucks I ever spent.

We actually had a lot of fun just wandering, people-watching, talking, laughing, nursing (in Amy B.'s case), holding the tiny baby and being surrounded by tons of people just as obsessed as I am. (Is that possible?) We kept having to branch off into smaller groups or couples, it was just too crowded to all stay together. Plus, Shayla and I were the only ones with the coveted bracelets, that secured our place near the front of the line. So, as midnight neared, we said "see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya" and giddily took our place in line. (Oh, I should mention it was at this point that the other adults starting pouring in. Oh, too cool for the 18 and under party? Whatevs.) Shocking, the line went super-fast and Shayla and I were out of there within 15 minutes. I couldn't believe I was holding the book in my hands. And it's HUGE!!

But before walking out the door, my fellow obsessed cousin and I had to get a picture together
with our prized possessions.

And then I flew to Shayla's, kicked her out the car door, flew home and proceeded to spend the next three hours in vampire heaven. I've had many people ask me if I'm finished, and I feel like I'm letting them down somehow because I haven't, but when your husband is only home on the weekends, it's not really the best thing to go hole up in your bedroom and read all day. So I've switched my days and nights, taking loooong naps in the day and reading late into the night. I won't say a single word about what I think so far, until I'm finished. Til then, readers........