An author came to Dry Creek Elementary and told the students about his books and a new book coming out. Then he told them about a fun launch party taking place in Orem that weekend. Kade, Taggart and Sienna came home so excited and insisted we go to the launch party.
I took them to the launch party at Mountain View High School. There was a play/acted out portion to start off the party with a story line from the new book. Then there were author signings by fifteen local authors who all publish with Shadow Mountain.
The kids had the best night and were full of so much energy. This picture has Kade's friend Hayden, as well as a character from the performance.
After the book signings the kids got glitter tattoos. You can kind of see Kade's on his forearm.
I was excited about the authors signing books because the author of the Elephant's Girl was
there and since I bought her book, I took it for her to sign. She also had cute stamps for some of the characters.
There was a prize wheel so the kids came home with posters, bookmarks and Sienna won a book. They had the best night ever.
I'm not going to lie though. It was a sacrifice for me and labor of love. The performance was about an hour and it was long and a little boring. Then the lines for the authors were long and moved very slowly. People kept cutting in front and it was very frustrating. We bought the main book by Scott Savage which was the book being launched. We wanted him to sign in but his line was very very long. He was on the stage and the line went to the back of the auditorium. At least that is how long it was right after the performance. So we did all of the other things there and then checked his line around 8:30. The launch started at 6:00 so I was pretty tired by this point and wanting to get home. When we checked his line it was significantly shorter. I knew I would regret it if we didn't get the book signed. We got in line and even though it was only from the center of the stage to the side of the auditorium, it was moving very slowly. The author was talking a lot to each person which is nice when you are the one talking to him but terrible when you are the one waiting in line. As we waited in line a teenage boy got in line behind us. He asked if he could go ahead of me and I was like sure. I mean one kids couldn't affect us that much right?! Boy was I wrong. Right before the boy go to the author's table his whole big family joined him. The author talked to him, each of his siblings and his dad. It added at least another ten minutes. Ugh! We finally got to the front of the line at 9:00. The author talked to the kids, signed the book and we got out of there. Whew!
