It is Sure Quiet at Our House Right Now!

We are back with our Harry Potter books. It is almost 2am. We were out of the store by 12:10am. It was a fun experience, but a long night. We arrived about 6:45 and the store was not crowded at all. Younger son, his friend and I sat and had drinks and had fun watching the parking lot from the second floor tables. Older son arrived by 8:30 and all the festivities started at 9 pm. We had pictures taken, made frames, pin the wand on the wizard, out smart the wizard and a lot of cool costumes. By 11 pm we went to the front of the store to start the line. About 15 minutes after that the store announced the starting of the line. They lined up in groups of 25, so I am glad we went up early. The only one ahead of us was the costumes contest winner. Part of the prize was to be first in line. I met a wonderful family by being in line so long. Their son won the contest so we were able to talk for about a half hour. They travel with her husbands work and have just recently moved back to the states from Africa. The boy and his family have lived on three continents and he was only 10. Her sister lives in England, so they hear a lot about the whole Harry Potter thing. She is interested in homeschooling, but her husband wants the boy in school. They homeschooled for their year in Africa, but when they came back to the states they put him in school. They put him back a year because of his age and he is bored to tears. After talking, I think she is going to think a lot more about homeschooling again. Illinois is such an easy state to homeschool in. They were a very interesting family. It is funny, the people I stood in line with this morning I kept running into tonight. We didn't exchange names in line, but I heard a few times, hi there, number 1 :) We remembered what order we were in, and didn't know any names.

The boys are sitting here reading. Most likely older son may make it all night, but I am betting around 3am younger son will give in and go to bed. I told them they can stay up as long as they want.

There was an upsetting thing that happened on the way home tonight too. Diving home we ran across a car that had a very large poster on both sides of their car saying,"In the 7th book here is who dies" and listed all the names! I couldn't believe it, what is wrong with people? Luckily it was very dark and the names of who died were too small to read in the dark. I just don't understand thinking like that. Why ruin it for other people? Oh well, we are safely at home reading and if we don't turn on the tv, radio, check the Internet, or read the paper we should be safe for a day or two.

I am off. My book arrives in the morning, well a few hours from now. Originally we were just getting two books, but older son ordered one for me on Amazon. So we will all be reading this weekend!