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The girls thought it would be GRAND if we went to the Twilight premiere. Maya read the book in like 3 days flat (it took me much longer...) and decided to replace Nick Jonas with posters of Edward in her bedroom. Now that's true love. A few of Maya's friends got tickets and were making a night of it....so I told her that if we went to the theatre and they actually had tickets for sale, we'd go (I knew full well that they were selling the tickets months in advance and that in Gilbert-soccer-mom-mecca-of-the-world there would be no available tickets.)

I was wrong.

So, we purchased 3 tickets to Twilight. I talked to the Harkins manager who informed me that they expected people (moms) to begin lining up around 4:00 p.m. so we should come early. At that point I tried to bribe the little guy with a $20 to save us a spot in line. No such luck. According to Maya, he was cocky....I must agree. Sometimes they take that bow-tie a bit too seriously.

I told the girls that we would show up to the theatre at 8:00 p.m., which was when they would begin seating. I really didn't want to stand in line for hours just to sit in the theatre for hours. When we got to the theatre, I realized that bow-tie boy was NOT KIDDING about the 4 p.m. line up. It was like the lines for the I-phone release, except these people were all female and wearing shirts that said things like "forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest."

*Obviously this girl has not spent the past 15 years with a bad boy...but I digress*

The line of die-hards wrapped around the back of the building. We were like 6 people from the end. There were really all sorts of people, but mostly just a bunch of Caucasian middle-aged women. One of them brought a life-size cardboard cutout of Edward. One lady wore a cape and had bite marks on her neck. One guy had a mullet and a receding hairline. He was by far the scariest and I'm pretty sure he didn't dress up.

We waited in line for 45 minutes when bow-tie came out and said that there were available seats in one of the theatres if we didn't mind sitting 4 rows back. Whatever. I was pretty sure I'd fall asleep anyway, so in we went.

The wait was the best part (I don't want to ruin it for anyone, but the movie isn't that great). We played some I-quiz games, tic-tac-toe, and listened to lots of teenagers drama-filled conversations. Maya was a little afraid of them.... they were scarier than the movie.

The movie was PG13 for some reason - I guess violence, maybe some innuendos, but I really couldn't tell. I was too caught up in comparing the movie to the book, and after the movie was over I was thinking -- was the book really that lame? Because they stayed true to the story and the movie was not good. Maybe the book was good when I read it, but now I'm starting to wonder.

If you are 10, on the other hand, then you would L O V E the movie. My girls did...and they equally loved getting up the next morning and going to school dead-tired due to being out til 2:30 a.m.