The weekend before Thanksgiving, Karl and Beth Bristol, Anthony and Kathie Zoellner, and Aimee and I enjoyed a sleepover at the Bristols' house. This was the weekend the sixth Harry Potter was due out in theaters, so we had planned to watch the other five Harry Potter movies and then go and see the sixth after that. However, it was announced in August that the sixth Harry Potter would not be out in theaters until July 17, 2009. Though this was a tragic turn of events, we still managed to pick up the pieces of our lives and enjoy the weekend regardless!
Karl surprised all of us with how much thought and preparation he had put into the evening. We all received invitations created by Karl to the Hogwarts Invitational All Night Event that were similar to the mail received in the movies. Karl also sewed together four banners with the emblems of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry ironed on to each respectively (pictured above). He also baked and labeled a full spread of Harry Potter themed snacks and drinks that were all delicious (also pictured above). If you are ever thinking of throwing a party, please do not hesitate to call Karl as I do not believe his creativity has an end!
We played a fun new game that Anthony and Kathie brought over (of which I cannot remember the name) that has some similarities to Apples to Apples. We ended up watching only the first two movies and then decided to call it a night at around 2 a.m. I would like to state for the record that I was the only one who made it all of the way until 2 a.m. without falling asleep (Anthony and Karl were close). It was great to sleep next to Karl and Beth's Christmas tree in their living room...God bless the Christmas season! We all woke up around 8 a.m. the next morning, and Beth whipped up a delicious breakfast for all of us. Good times were had by all!
6 comments:
Fun times! I'm glad we did this!!
for some reason I can't picture Karl sewing those flags...Beth were you involved? Very cool though, nice work Bristols, I am sure meg is very sad she wasn't able to be there for it!!
the only one to stay up to 2AM...reminds me of watching Contact after having about 3 hours of sleep all week at LRCA.
That sounds like an amazing party, aside from Warner Brothers ruining your plans.
I hope you guys have planned to do it again in July, because events like that are AWESOME. Good friends, enjoying company and celebrating a book/film franchise together. That's wicked cool.
I hope you guys have a Happy Holidays!!!
And by complete randomness, I ran across this:
http://www.clearviewcinemas.com/ziegfeld/ziegfeld-hpmarathon.html
The Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City is running all five films in a row on Saturday and Sunday... Too bad you didn't have more notice, so that the House of Devote Potter Fans could have hoped on their broomsticks and gone to the Big Apple...
That's awesome! Oh well, maybe they'll do it again before Harry Potter 7 is released so that we can try to make that one.
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