Dearra has a Starbuck's moment

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Dearra is an avid Harry Potter fan. She has talked about nothing else for months. She's gone to see the latest movie 3 times already. She's gotten amazing scores on an online site that quizzes you on all the major characters. She knows the actors' real names. She watches Potter parodies and Potter tributes. She even went back and reread all the books. JK Rowling is sponsoring this new site called Pottermore. It's a new online Harry Potter site that isn't supposed to be available to the general public until October. It's been opened to some avid fans for beta testing, and she really wanted to get it. But by the time she got on, it was closed to new users for the day. So I suggested that she get on right before bedtime (morning in England) and give it another try. So Monday as we were leaving to go swim at a picnic spot along the American river she tells me that she was up until 3:15 AM trying to get into Pottermore. She didn't actually get in, but she did figure out the password that got her onto a list or something. But she was really tired. So we're driving along and she sees a Starbucks, and she really wants to try some coffee and see if it will wake her up. Only she doesn't want just coffee, because she's pretty sure she won't like the taste. By this time we've passed that Starbucks anyway, and I suggest she might like to try a cafe mocha. We don't see another Starbucks, so I pull off at like the last exit in Placerville, figuring that we can try one of McD's coffee drinks, and lo, there is a Starbucks right next to the McDonald's. We go on in, and after some debate she decides on the iced mocha. So she tastes it, and it's a bit strange, but OK, and we are barely back onto the freeway when she feels the jolt. Suddenly she's awake and chattering as if she actually had a decent night's sleep. About halfway through the drink she says "I don't like the taste any more" and puts it in the cup holder. We get to the picnic area, have lunch, and then go down by the water. The twins and their cousin head straight for the water. Dearra pulls out a towel and says, "I think I'll take a nap." She steals everybody's towels, makes herself a nice little bed, and curls up. So much for the short lived caffeine jolt. I wonder what she's going to do when she gets officially introduced to alcohol...