Yesterday evening Mr. W and I went to the Irvine Spectrum to pick up our Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire tickets for the show tomorrow morning. (Aside: the official website for the movie is amazing, btw. Click above if you’re a fan.) The opening show was at midnight and there were lines going all the way around the theatre in both directions from the front entrance. People were prepared to camp out in their beach chairs, blankets, Harry Potter costumes, floor lamps, generators, desktop plants, small barnyard animals, etc. At the ticket counter, the lucky teenager who probably wished he worked on commission informed us that there are 3 main theatres plus the large Imax theatre showing Harry Potter, and three of those four theatres are already completely sold out.

Craziness, it is! It’s starting to look more and more like we have to get up when it’s still dark to be placeholders in line. Thanks, Mr. W, for being so wonderful and volunteering to be the early-morning line bookmark so that we can get a bunch of seats together. Another guy who’s meeting us there is apparently a pastry chef so he’s gonna make and bring us cinnamon rolls. I should get a copy of all the Harry Potter books, have them piled up next to me as I huddle on the floor with my nose in one of them, and anytime anyone tries to talk to me, I’ll hiss, “Shhh! I’m trying to catch up before the movie starts!”