harry potter

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night

and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

-Professor Dumbledore

clear back in december kara and i had planned to go to the Harry potter 6 movie together since she would be in rexburg for swim camp when it would be released. so we decided that we would go all out and be total freaks and dress up and everything. it was very fun to think of who to be and find our costumes(cheaply). i decided to be tonks, a not so major role in the movies-but i think she sounds so cool in the books! kara was hermoine, but she informed me if we do this for #7 she is going to pick someone older-it's hard to play a teenager. kaden of course was the one and only-harry potter. and brenden was his best friend, ron weasley. kelsi really wanted to come but said she wouldn't dress up with us, so she was going to be a muggle but at the last minute she caught the harry potter spirit and went as loony-i mean luna lovegood. by the time i got to the movie theatre to buy our tickets they were all sold out for opening day...the only ones that were left were the VIP tickets which were $20 a piece-yikes! but after kara and i talked we decided to do it as a birthday present for brenden and kaden-so we got midnight tickets for the show on wednesday. we were so excited. we went to swim camp the monday before that but planned on just traveling back for the showing on wednesday at midnight. well anyone who knows me well knows i am the worst at days and times, i get them wrong alot. so wednesday morning about 10am kara comes into our trailer with a sick look on her face and says "i think we missed the midnight showing" and i said "why?" and she said "think about it-wednesday at midnight would actually really be like right after tuesday night." we just stared at each other. i didn't say much because kara looked like she was on the verge of tears and i said "well i hope not." but i knew she was right:( so we finished the lessons for the day and headed for rexburg like we had planned, we decided to go talk to the people at the theatre and see if there was anything we could do. i thought i was all under control so i told kara i would do the talking so she didn't start crying(yes it runs in the family). well i was directed to talk to the manager and as soon as i tried to tell our story, i just totally started crying...well he was so nice-it was about 3:30 and he said all the shows were sold out but that they hold about 10 seats open just in case and that he would even honor our VIP tickets and let us go in first and get our food too but we had to be back by 5:15. well we were really wanting to dress up so we made a mad dash for my house: hurried like crazy and threw on our costumes which weren't even all the way completed. we were sewing, painting, dying hair, printing off the computer...we didn't even have time to take pictures before the show. so here we are at the theatre...
i'm sure there were lots of people at the midnight showing dressed up but we were the only ones at the 5:15 showing!
it was so much fun and i didn't mind people looking at us. side note: kara looked just like hermoine after her potion didn't turn out in the movie.

kelsi ended up being such a good sport dressing up-she wore the radish earrings, butter beer cork necklace and even tucked her wand behind her ear like luna. of course you don't have to give kaden an excuse to dress up, he used to be in his room reading his harry potter books with his whole costume on-i loved it!

this ended up being such a fun experience and we even have a wacky and silly story to go with it. i can't wait until #7 and i won't be in charge! oh, i forgot to say how i liked the movie, kara and i had just both finished the book again before we watched and i think we compared a little too much. but after it settled in, the only thing i really didn't agree with was the end-i hated that they didn't have harry paralyzed when dumbledore dies...there is no way that harry could of just watched as he died. and i kind of think ron weasley stole the show in this one-he totally cracked me up. i know, i know i'm such a geek!