Vampire Weekend

Friday night at 12:01am was the release of Stephanie Meyers last book in the "Twilight" saga. My friend Amy was nice enough to invite me to spend the weekend in St. George with her, her sisters, cousins, and one other friend, so we could have uninterrupted reading time. It was absolutely fabulous and we all finished out 734 page book in one day rather than trying to sneak reading time in over a few days while ignoring our other duties.
Amy, Janna, and myself left Friday afternoon to meet the others who had left much earlier at 6am, so they could get in line for our wrist bands that would prevent us from waiting too long in line to get our actual book that night. I am so grateful to them for doing that, it saved us a lot of time and also guaranteed that we all got our books.

We got there around 6pm and rested for an hour, then headed out for dinner and our big night at Banes & Noble. Most of the girls are from California and so we of course had to eat at In-N-out burger. I had eaten there only once before on one of my many trips to Cali with friends from college. I hadn't been too impressed with the food back then, but have to say it was pretty good this time around. Maybe because I've not had beef in about 5 months, maybe because I'm pregnant, or maybe because it was just a fun weekend to forget my rules and have fun.

I think we arrived at Barnes & Noble around 8:30 and let me tell you it was an experience. I had no idea what nutty people were into this book and HOW MANY nutty people to boot, ranging in age from young to old. It made me feel much better about my own mild obsession. People were dressed up like the characters, not very well though, I sort of questioned weather or not some of them had actually read the book before deciding what to wear. I'm sure they where all having a great time and that is what counts. They had a trivia contest to win a free book. I think Amy's sister Jodi did most of the work but we all found a couple answers and it passed the time until we got our hands on our copy of the book.

Barnes & Noble kicked everyone out of the store at 11:30 to wait outside until they were ready to get the books out. Luckily the company was great and there were so many people to watch I didn't get bored.

We got our books right around 12:30 and headed home to start reading. Some of the crazy ones stayed up until 5:30am reading. I wish I could have done it but my eyes would not stay open so I fell asleep around 2:30. The latest I've stayed up in a long time, probably since I read the last book.
This is what the weekend looked like, just change up the people and positions. We just sat around reading all day. I only moved to go to the bathroom and eat. It was fabulous! Although I did feel mildly guilty for being in St. George and never going outside once. Well, I did eat breakfast outside, and it was already way to hot (that is my baby talking).We had all finished the book by Sunday morning and it was fun to be able to discuss the book with so many people. We then watched "Pride and Prejudice", the one with Keira Knightley, which is my new favorite movie. I dreamed all Sunday night the Mr. Darcy and I where fighting vampires together.
So, we sadly packed it up Sunday afternoon and left our great St. George retreat. I had such a great time not only reading a great book but meeting some great new friends, whom I'm hoping to see again soon:)