Friday night

Karen and I had discussed long ago getting together to get our copies of Harry Potter at midnight the day it came out. We finally figured out how and when Thursday. I met her at her place about 8 PM. She grilled some steaks, corn on the cob, potatos and texas toast. After dinner we went to see Charlie and the Chocolat Factory. The movie was over about 11:30 PM. We then walked over to Barnes and Noble. It was a little crazy there. There was one line of people waiting to get tickets to see what place in line they were. Luckily Karen had gone by earlier to get a ticket and we were only number 128. It was difficult to tell what good it did to reserve a copy ahead of time, since those people seemed to be standing in line with all the walk-ins like us. We got our books and were out of the store by about 12:30 AM. I read the first paragraph to Karen in car while we drove back to her house. I will probably read a bit of the book this weekend.