tween extravaganza

the other night we hosted a midnight release party for "Breaking Dawn" by Stephenie Meyer. despite my concern that no one would show up, we had a fair showing of pre-teen girls a.k.a. tweens. i was pleasantly surprised. you have no earthly idea what kind of work is involved for one of these things, but the hard work totally paid off.

i was amazed by how much these girls have invested in this series of books. i have read these books myself and i have also heavily invested in these characters. however, i could not answer the trivia questions that were asked about these books to save my life. they also fiercely debated over who the main girl, Bella, should choose as her boyfriend. it was a debate over vampires versus werewolves.

i led the werewolf side, the underdog, so to speak. i lost. it was terrible. so much for all those years on the debate team. (i was never that good.)

the attendants made the evening a lot of fun. they came in costume. they decorated t-shirts. i've never seen people get so excited about stickers, buttons and t-shirts. the staff had a good time and i'm very lucky that they are all so willing to participate and help without much question. there were so many cute moments throughout the evening. one of the tweens even wrote a cute note to one of the male members of the staff and colored him a picture. i won't even go into what was written on the "graffiti wall." we also raffled off the duplicated book covers that rakel and i created for decoration. (the photo above is the line for the raffle) the high pitch sound of tween girls counting down to midnight is something i will not easily forget. and we only got one complaint...from an adult.

i had a really good time celebrating a series of books that has come to an end.

i haven't read it yet. so don't tell me what happens.