Wednesday, July 8, 2009

The Forks Trip: Part Deux

The cabin we had was pretty awesome. It had HUGE rooms and a river in the back. I stupidly opted for sleeping on the floor in Washington with nothing but a pillow and a quilt, so I was freezing my ass off the night before. There was a deck in the back overlooking a river. It was beautiful. I had gotten a notebook so I had a few writing experiments I wanted to try out. I had lots of time to mess around with the Twilight Moms. They are absolutely beautiful, like Rosalie status. So they were never out of the bathroom before three in the afternoon and we broke electric circuits every single day we were there from all the people trying to blow dry their hair at once.

On the other hand, I'm a lot like Cammy. If my friends would let me I would run around town in my pajamas too. So we had a lot of time to meander, go into town and come back to check to see if they were ready yet, and then head out again.

Forks thrives on Twilight, and therefore loves Twilighters. Again, I was shocked because you'd think the people there would be sick of all the people looking for Edwards and Jacobs. But they were always very nice and asked us where we were from. Then again the population is probably desensitized to the attention by now. The place is CRAWLING with fans. Every single time we drove by the Forks sign there were multiple cars parked on the side of the road taking pictures. That's not to see we weren't one of them.



(That's me being silly and excited because we'd just gotten there. I know. You can hardly see anything, but you have to climb a little to get to it so Tiff was on the ground taking the pic.)

Every business there had something Twilight related, like the Bella Burger. Or a giant Twilight stand in the middle of the grocery store, or the motel sign that says "Edward didn't sleep here!" glowing in the night. Or a particularly hilarious one in La Push that said, "No vampires beyond this point!" Then of course there were stores that had nothing but Twilight paraphenalia inside.

So like I said the place is crawling with fellow Twilighters. So imagine my surprise when I look out the window and see Jasper, Alice, Edward, and Bella walking by.

...

No. Seriously. They were just walking by like nothing was out of place. I had to make sure I hadn't lost my mind so I was like, "Hey look." Donna and Tiff, who happened to be driving, were like "Oh my god!"

So we promptly pulled the car over and stalked them into drug store. Alice and Jasper were wearing the baseball uniforms and everything. Edward had his cool "shades" on and Bella was absolutely freaked out that we were following them.

So I got the whole Cammy experience.

I am incredibly shy and have this fear of talking to people who are famous or resemble famous people. I can't even talk to the characters at Disneyland, let alone hug them. But Donna, being Donna, tracked them down and asked to get a picture with them. They were so cool. They had the contacts to change their eye colors and everything. And they were surprised that we actually approached them. Seriously, I thought Forks had hired them to be impersonators or something. Even I couldn't pass up an opportunity like this. So I got a picture too.



See? I'm all flustered and they're just people dressed up. I'm such a dork. Ladies and fancy gentlemen, tell me the Jasper guy isn't cute. Then they told us that they had done a Twilight parody on youtube. I'm working on getting a sample to put up here so you guys can check them out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MKz0gkcgAo

So it is my recommendation that you pile your best friends in a car and visit Forks. It's definitely worth it.



(Above: Donna, me, and Tiff)

2 comments:

  1. OMJ! I wanna go to Forks! But, alas, I live in Louisiana, so it'd be a pain in the butt to go there.

    If I saw Alice, Bella, Jasper, and Edward, I'd flip out and do my awesome fangirl screech. It's almost non-hearable (I know thats not a word, I'm tired) because of its highness.


    YOU. NEED. TO. UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  2. Holy Crap!!! You met HillyWood!!! That's awesome!!

    I'm so jealous of your right now...but I am usually...so this is no big surprise...

    Loved your comments for New Moon Monday. Yes, apparently alot of I guess...older fans (I hate to say truer fans) are pissed off of Twilight's dignity being sold of bit by bit by mainstream greed. I mean cute little stores in Forks with little trinkets are one thing...Burger King stuff...Yeah...nuff said.

    Oh please...don't get me started on the Vitoria controversy crap. Greed, greed, greed. I'm about all Twilighted out right about now.

    But not Fanfictioned out...LOVED the update!!! I know it sounds bad but I was waiting for the lust bomb to go off between them....Very cool!!! LOL!!!

    Talk to you later!!!

    Jackie

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