Forks, La Push and Oregon

Here we are at Forks.



Brent was such a good sport. This day was all about me wanting to see these places from the book. Did you know that the places in the book are actual places in forks and La Push? However the places you see in the movie are not in Forks or La Push as Washington state would not give the movie makers any tax breaks so they were actually filmed on the Oregon coast. They did have a fun treasure hunt to go find the places that were talked about in the book so we did that. This is Charlies house.This is Bellas truck.

We also found the Cullens house, the police station and some other stuff. We also went to eat at Sully's and I had a Bella Burger. I asked if it was a veggie burger first cause we all know Bella's a vegetarian, and the girl wanted to argue with me that she wasn't. She obviously is not a reader of the books. Another girl came to my defence though. You could order it as a veggie on or regular. Mine was a hamburger with a slice of pinapple on it and was pretty good. We saw some vampires too, but I had to be fast and took the pictures with my cell phone and I can't figure out how to get them in my picture folder so I can blog them. I saw Edward and was really surprised to see James (I thought he was a goner), Victoria and Laurent. I got a few things in a Twight store and then on to La Push. It was more than a little drive over there but really rain foresty. We did a 3 mile hike in to see beach 3 where Bella and Jacob saw the cliff divers from there bike ride. It was pretty long getting there and then it was misty. But I did get a few pictures of us hiking there and of the beach when we got there.
Brent had to hold this limb up and secure it so I could walk through.Then after that mile and a half walk in it was misty like this. Then we had to walk the mile and a half back to the tracker.

We had a little bit better luck on first beach. Not quite as misty and more scenic.

The next day we headed further down the coast, to Ocean shores Washinton and surprisingly I wasn't too sore from our 3 mile plus walks yesterday. We stayed at another Indian Casino in there RV parking area. It was right on the Ocean and we had a partial ocean view from the motorhome. It's pretty neat as so far they have been paying our gas as I have won every time we have stopped and Brent has won some too. You won't believe it but I won at this one too. We parked the motorhome and it said to register even though it was free to park there. So we walked in and registered and they gave us a sign to display in the window so Brent said he would take it back out to the motorhome and then come and find me. Well I put in $20 in a 2 pennies machine and got to go into the bonus on it. While in the bonus it hit something really good and it paid better in the bonus. Well, after the bonus I had 23200 credits so I told myself I wouldn't play it down past 20000 credits, so when it got down around there I figured I had won about $200 so I cashed out, only I was playing a 2 penny machine so it was $400 and some odd cents. All this before Brent came to find me. I started toward the motorhome and met him walking back and showed him by ticket worth $400 and he could believe it. We played a little more but $300 went into the gas fund. That's it for Washington.
Jason called and met us in Cannon beach Oregon the next day. He drove from Portland out to the coast. It was nice to spend some time with him and I think he had an enjoyable time.
Here we are down on the beach. I think this is the area that Twight used as first beach in the movie. See what you think.

When Jason got to Cannon Beach the night before we went and had clam chowder at MO"S. The next day we walked along the beach down to haystack rock. That's the big one in the picture. The tide was low and we wanted to look in the tide pools.Here's Jason and I were almost there. It was another long walk. I should get in shape if I keep this up a few times a week.

We made it and here I am wading to look in the tide pools. Not too much though a few hermit crabs and some tiny fish. We could see some star fish but they were on the furthest rocks out.
Then from here we went to Ecola State park and another bit of a hike. We took a path that led to a vista view. It is so awsome. You all must see it some day.Jason really enjoyed the view. Then we went to see Indian beach.


Jason's as strong as his dad, he pushed these big trees off the path so we could get by.


We had to cross a bridge over a river that way going into the Ocean before we could get down to the beach area here.

Here we are on the beach now. There were surfers in the water here. They had wetsuits on of course. It was a little chilly. We decided to just play around here on the beach and then watch the sunset over these rocks. It was a nice one.



Aren't these just gorgeous! They really don't do it justice it was a neat one. I'm a sunset nut in case you all can't tell. More later.