The wait is now over: the new Harrisonburg Krispy Kreme is now open. The grand opening yesterday brought out many from the local area and caused traffic problems around the store. In order to get people out in the morning, they had a promotion where the first 100 customers received free doughnuts for a year and the first 250 received a mug that could be refilled for .99 cents for life. A group of HHS seniors decided to camp out outside of the doughnut shop the night before in order to receive the coupons. Senior Jadah Kilby-Woodward arrived at 7:30 p.m. and waited over ten hours with five of her friends for the 6:00 A.M opening.

“Tyler [Rodriguez] kind of got a group together and convinced us all to wait and we basically just hung out in a circle all bundled up all night and did homework. We talked a lot,” Woodward said.

The group was joined by almost a hundred other people, however only around forty actually slept outside, the rest slept in their cars. She ended up being the 30th person in line and received her coupon for a free box of doughnuts per month for the entire year. She didn’t waste any time in using it for her first box.

“I decided to get my first box that morning, but I only got glazed doughnuts because I just wanted to hurry up and get home,” Woodward said.

Although she was in the first 100, she wouldn’t do it again.

“It wasn’t worth the wait just because of the doughnuts, if anything, getting to hangout with my friends all night and having the experience of just doing it made it worth the wait,” Woodward said.