The reason I blog...

"You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and
keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh
your memory of these meaningful, significant things. Some of them may be funny.
Some may be of significance only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly
beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of
special experience."
~Gordon B. Hinckley

Monday, March 23, 2009

Twilight DVD Midnight Release Party

All of us Twihards...Melanee, Tara, Courtney, Carlie, Megan, Me and Amber

Last Friday night I spent 4 hours (10pm-2am) at the Walmart in Riverton waiting to meet Rachelle Lefevre who plays Victoria in Twilight! I wasn't planning on going to the midnight release until word got out that a cast member would be making an appearance... and me being the Twihard that I am...I couldn't possibly stay at home knowing that it might be Edward (aka Robert Pattinson) just 20 minutes away!

So I arranged a sleepover for my kids since Joey was working late (Thanks again Kimberly!) and after our book club, my sister-in-law, Amber, and my friend Melanee met some fellow Twihard friends Tara and her sisters; Megan, Carlie and Courtney at about 10 pm! Megan secretly snuck in on the side with the Walmart Associates/Family by agreeing she was with Scott (the manager of the store). Carlie and Courtney were waiting in a huge line...and Tara was in the middle of the mosh pit!! So the three of us decided to join Tara and waited for the cast member to show...we tried hard to get it out of the employees standing guard over the Twilight merchandise who was coming...but they were sworn to secrecy or something!

As we were waiting I almost got beat up by some massive lady who thought it was her God given right to push her way to the front!! She didn't like it when I told her to stop pressing herself up against me...needless to say, I moved out of her way and we watched as she eased her way towards the front!

Anyhow, Rachelle Lefevre who plays a sadistic vampire in the movie finally came out! She was so nice and so pretty! Although I was initially a little disappointed that I wouldn't get to grope one of my Freebie 5 (click on the link if you don't know what that is)...I was happy that it was Victoria!!Tara left the mosh pit to find her sisters in line, while Melanee, Amber and I made our way over to Megan. We got stopped by an employee who said we weren't allowed to be up there... so I tried my best to make something up and say that we were there with Megan, who knew Scott! So the guy calls Scott over and I thought for sure we were all gonna get sent to the back of the mosh pit again when Scott was like, "Yeah they're okay, they can stay!" He was awesome!! It was hilarious!!
This is Scott...the guy who made it all happen!
So we spent the rest of the night watching Rachelle sign autographs, talking to the deputy's guarding the place, talking with Scott, getting our stuff signed and meeting other Twilight Moms including Lisa, who started twilightmoms.com! We had lots of fun!

Twilight Moms...Lisa is the lady on the left!
Deputy Reyes...aka...Charlie! He wouldn't let us get away with anything!!
Rachelle was only supposed to sign autographs for the first 200 people or for about an hour, but she was so awesome and said she would sign everyone in line or until Walmart kicked her out! So at about 1:30 we were one of the last few to hop in line to meet her! I know I said it before but she was genuinely such a nice person and so so pretty!! A true class act!! I think I'm officially Team Victoria!!Notice how there is nobody left in the store!! This was close to 2 am...she was coming around to shake our hands and say good-bye!We had such a fun time...and it was totally worth having a sore back and feet after the 4 hours of standing and hanging out late with the girls!!

Here's a video from our night!!

2 comments:

The Holders said...

I knew we should have come up there with you guys but we were chicken. I wanted to stay that late too but Travis called freaking out that Gage was crying so we went home instead.

Lindsay said...

my mom and dad live right by that walmart and I wanted to go with there with my mom to get my copy but I couldn't make it out. Now I wish I would have. Dang.