Ok... Confession time.
Didn't make it past my tea break before I could resisit no longer.
I'm up to chapter 5 and plan to charge through as many as I can keep my eyes open for tonight.
That's where I finished my day one - I didn't expect to get that far, but there were too many "Oh gawd..." moments to put it down
and felt the magic surge through the cover of the book into my eager hands....
Nope - not too dramatic at all. I was in line with about 500+ people at Big-W Penrith. I got there at 8:30 and was much closer to the front than last time when I got there at 8:45. There were about 70 in front of me. We were all chatting excitedly to each other, pretty quickly, the line stretched past me, turned the corner to the back of the shop, then turned the corner again out of sight! The funny thing was the only kids I saw were a couple with their parents immediately behind me, but the kids weren't interested in the book, it was mum who was buying it! No other kids were in sight - amazing. Saw a few people wearing Disney jumpers etc, but I couldn't talk to them without losing my place - I was on a mission.
The store kept counting down the minutes and I was sending Della SMSs on the situation. Then - at about 8:58 they put the price up of $25.92 - pretty good I thought. And at exactly 9:01, the line began to move and I caught my first glimpse of the book coming out of the boxes - OMG, it is real! The line was very orderly and very quick, I was out of the shop by about 9:03 - not kidding, straight through the checkout - Big-W had everyone there working, they were fabulous (well done Big-W Penrith!!).
I grasped my book, and as Lisa said, the words were callng me - I knew in my hand I had the answers to everything! But I had other stuff to do before I could go home, I had to put it aside! Eventually I did get home and went straight out the backyard, ignoring my dad who was laughing at me
Throughout the day I received SMSs from various Harry fans, asking me whether I got the book,
how far I was in, what did I think etc etc. It was a weird day!
the jerks at MixxFM ( which we can't avoid listening to at work) kept reading the last paragraph on air all day.....
Their radio station deserves a complete boycott...that is just mean, uncalled for, cruel, juvenile, and shows no respect to all those listeners. Change stations!
Now on another subject, I went and saw Order of the Phoenix last night and...
...
...
LOVED IT!!! I mean, Della and I came out of there thinking it was the best HP film of all. Yes, they missed pieces, but that was to be expected, but what was in there was fabulous, comprehensible, entertaining, dramatic, fun - it had everything going for it. Absolutely go and see it if you haven't already. We liked it so much, we are going to see it again at the Imax in Sydney on the weekend after next.
