Twilight-ed

Wow! I've been waiting for MONTHS to see the "Twilight" movie, and now...I can finally say I have. What an experience! I've only waited in line for one movie, "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" (I went with my best friend's family--she was in the MTC). I didn't have much of a wait, but, it was well worth it.

My friend Erinn and I had been planning to go to see it together for several weeks--both planning to go for months, but not until recently did we make the plans to go together. I went over to Erinn's house one night and we made "Team Edward" t-shirts and it was a blast! I was so excited to wear mine to school.

The morning of November 21st arrived, and I put on my shirt, excited for the day. I went to school and all the teachers and many students gave me a hard time about my shirt but I really think that deep down, they were all just jealous! One even asked me to make one for her, but when she went to find a black t-shirt, they were all sold out! It was a great day. My students knew about the movie and were very excited for me. Some even told me of their plans to go and see the movie that night.

After school I stayed later than normal for a Friday, for me, so that I could get caught up on grading some papers. I called Erinn to see where she was so we could make plans about going to get in line and she said she was planning to head down about 6:00pm. I was okay with that--it was about 4:50 and that would give me time to go home and get something to eat, brush my teeth and be ready for a long, but very fun night. As I was waiting in line to get to the ATM at Mountain America in Roosevelt, she called me back and said, "There's already a line, I'm heading down right now!" I told her I had to grab something to eat and then I'd head over...so I raced to McDonalds and waited in line to get something I could take to the theater and eat in my car or in the line. After I got my food, I made my way to the theater and discovered there were NO parking spots! Oh man! Where to park? So I parked across the street and ran to get in line. I got in line behind a woman and her daughter who was so excited to see the movie. Erinn hadn't come yet, but some of our other friends were already there and had gotten their "number" to guarantee their place in the theater, so I went to the end of the line and some of our other friends soon came and waited with me. Just as they came to hand out numbers to us, Erinn showed up. It was perfect timing. This was about 5:45pm. We waited in line with a lot of people I don't know and had the best time! It was so exciting thinking that we were all in line and excited for the same thing!

We finally got into the theater and it was so EXCITING! It was still only 6:30pm. We waited for an hour to watch the movie. I had eaten all of my Swedish Fish and was ready for it to start, when all the sudden, the screen went black (after showing the adds) a hush went over the crowd. It was AMAZING! It was EXCITING! It was INCREDIBLE! I will never forget the way it made me feel!

After the incredible and awesome and fantastic and wonderful movie, I looked over at Erinn and asked if she was ready to do it again. She smiled at me and we jumped up and ran out the outside exits and clear back to the ticket counter. We somehow made it just in time to jump into the middle of the two groups of people that had already bought their tickets. It was PERFECT timing! We just laughed and it was so much more exciting the second time, we knew what was coming, but it was amazing because we could watch for things this time. It was AWESOME! We had such a fun night! I'm so glad Erinn and I were able to go together!

What an awesome night!

And what an experience! Its such a perfect movie! I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but if you have or haven't read the books, go! Go! GO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!