muggles.

i finished harry potter and the half-blood prince around 5:00 yesterday. wow. just wow. i cried like a baby at the end...

it was such an experience. getting together early to cook food for our harry potter feast, naming our brooms, riding around in the middle of the street (getting funny comments from the neighbors), rushing off to gabriel park for a quidditch game, crawling on hands and knees looking for the snitch for what seemed like forever (only to be thwarted by the slytherin seeker), racing to barnes & noble, drinking far too much butterbeer, standing in line to get in, going to powell's downtown (and running most of the way), hugging hagrid and cheering for dobby, chasing down the max, getting yelled at by the driver who told us that if we didn't calm down a supervisor was going to beat us, casting spells and talking in british accents, freaking out when we saw the boxed books, freaking out more when they started to sell them, chanting and cheering when cynda & co. were purchasing them, and dancing around when we finally had them in our hands.

then reading them... out loud in the car while driving to nancy's, at nancy's until 5:30 and the sun came up, in the car home, and at home... until 8:30, when i took a 3-hour nap, and another short break to clean the mess left over from our feasting the day before, and again non-stop reading until around 5:00 yesterday afternoon, when i finished the book bawling. yes, bawling.

i'm such a geek, i know... but i love it

today.

i strolled around downtown, played capture the flag at the zoo, pranced around a rich neighborhood, roasted hot dogs over a fire, and watched the little mermaid.

it was wonderful.