The Host book signing

In case you didn't notice, in my earlier post I mentioned that I was not one of the crazies waiting up until midnight to get my copy of The Host from Wal-Mart. I did not, however, mention that about two weeks ago I talked my sister into going to Stephenie Meyer's signing of The Host down in Provo. Well it turned out that to get tickets to said signing you had to buy a copy of The Host at either the Murray or Provo Borders and that tickets went on sale at 8 in the morning on the day of release. My wonderful sister Lainey got to Borders right at 8 and then waited in line for about an hour and a half. By the time she got our tickets there were only about 30 out of 500 left. Like I said, crazies. But we did get tickets and last Friday we drove down to Thanksgiving Point to get our books signed. The tickets said that the doors opened at 5 so we planned on 5 and made it at about 5:15. There was no line outside and when we got in we realized why. The Crazies had apparently been there all day and already had their seats. Needless to say Lainey and I ended up on the second row from the back. Stephenie Meyer came out at 7 and spoke for about half an hour and then she started signing books. Lainey and I finally got out of there at 11:30. That's right... 11:30! Almost every Crazy had 4 or 5 copies of The Host and they could also have two of the Twilight books. Sure, you're thinking that's only 6 or 7 books, what's the big deal? The big deal is that there were about 900 Crazies in front of us in line! At a minimum of 4 books a piece that still at least 3600 books that got signed ahead of us! I only had my single copy of the Host but I waited 6 and a half hours to get it signed. I guess in the end I'm crazy too. A book signing is probably something I'll never do again but at least I can say I did it.