I'm going to practice the fine art of simple answers. Like Steve, he's great at that.
Anyone: "where are you?"
The Steve: "on the road"
Anyone: "where on the road?"
The Steve: "by some trees, oh just passed a sign"
So my next posts will be different... Not so long. The fine art of keep it simple. I will master this...
Next stop is St. Helens, where the bulk of the movie was filmed. First stop is Bella's house. We ran into a neighbor lady and chatted with her for a bit. We asked her if she got to meet any of the actors and if they were nice. She told us "He was really nice. But she.... she.... she's really young." She even told us a story - During filming the street was lined with port-o-potties and everyone would walk down to use them, honestly the street isn't that long. But Kristen, aka Bella, would call for a driver to take her down to one. Hahaha... seriously?
The owner of the house has no problems if you want to stop by and take pictures, but he does request that you stay off his lawn, garden, and do not peek in the windows. So to post a sign like that must mean people were actually walking in SOMEONE ELSE'S yard and garden and peeking into SOMEONE ELSE'S house. Talk about rude.
In "Port Angeles" aka still St. Helens the girls go dress shopping, hate to burst your bubble but it's really not a dress shop. It's a salon and the owner was an extra in the movie. If you are there and she doesn't have a client she can tell you about the filming.
Next to the Salon is the alley way, cue ominous music.
At the end of the alley is the "bookstore" (again I hate to burst your bubble but it's not really a bookstore.) And the infamous parking lot where Edward comes to the rescue and growls. Roar!
We asked the store owner if she met any of the cast and if they were nice. She told us, "He was really nice. But she... she's just.... young you know." Hmm... sounds familiar. (In fact we got that same response from the dude at the Gelato store a few doors down.)
We even went to the stupidly named "Bloated Toad" restaurant. Seriously? Bloated Toad? Ok, maybe there were legal problems using Bella Italia since it's a real restaurant, but Bloated Toad? Seriously? Why would anyone name a restaurant that? Don't even get me started on the waitress at the stupidly named bloated toad.... agh.
Now off to Kalama High School. We're so considerate! We made sure we were trespassing on a weekend not a weekday so the kiddies can get a proper education. Don't you love Sarah's impersonation of Edward saving her from the invisible car? I sure do!
We couldn't lay awkwardly in the meadow because there were stinging nettles at Oxbow, so we did it at the High School. And of course Edward is with us... we made him as awkward as possible too!
To Be Continued....
Gift bags included: 
I also made program books and a red velvet fondant cake. (It was my second time decorating with fondant so it's not the prettiest thing out there.) My wonderful sister printed the drink labels which we also used on the Twizzlers. (which follows the movie theme since they eat Twizzlers a lot.) Labels were found here
Next we're off to Clackamas Community College to check out the greenhouses used during the field trip.... shhh don't tell anyone but we went in. It's not like there was a sign that said we couldn't...
(You may have noticed that we all have the same sweatshirts, Kim had the idea to make sweatshirts. She asked all of us to come up with "Reasons we love Twilight" which basically mock Twilight, but when you love you tease. I was happy one of my ideas made it on there! Go me! Then her and Sarah worked on getting the design together for the front and back.)
Most of us did a butt dance in front of the tree a'la Mike Newton, even Edward. I'm not posting my second butt dance because I posted one from my February movie tour
Down the road we went to part of the meadow scene, which deviates from my February trip. Sorry guys we were at the wrong location, it was just a bit more up the road. Behind Stone Cliff Lodge, a restaurant, is where the magic happened...
We ran into another group of girls that had Cardboard Edward, they were nice enough to let us pose with him and Cardboard Bella... we didn't do a whole lot of nice posing with cardboard Bella though.
I also discovered, after February's trip, that some other meadow scenes were shot at Oxbow Park, so we did a bit of trek out there too. Beware of the stinging nettles.... don't ask.
Off to View Point Inn - the home of the Prom. It's beautiful up there. It was an absolutely gorgeous day and not too windy. If you're familiar with the Columbia Gorge it gets pretty windy, and it's a cold wind.
After our photo shoot we drove to the Bridge of the Gods, which is used to drive Bella into Forks. We tried to search for the baseball field but some people got carsick and we weren't able to locate it. If they were true fans they would have sucked it up... Haha! just kidding. (Kim thinks she has found it and one of these days we're going to do an adventure to see if it really is the field. If it is, pictures will be posted.)
This is Michael 
This is Laura.
Laura is nice and welcoming to everyone.
Laura is an amazing photographer and will go anywhere for a good photo. (sometimes she'll end up in a sticky situation because of her adventurous spirit.... for example the above picture - she's actually standing on a rock here but a big wave came all of the sudden.)
Did I mention that Laura will go anywhere for a good photo? Even if it means standing in the middle of the street.... or train tracks.
Over all Laura is the best big sister and I couldn't ask for anyone better!
PS....... Laura is so smart...
He never judges you. 
