Happy Valentines Day

Yesterday I went over to Blair's and had a lovely time with her. She made some delicious lunch and then dinner.... well her mom made the dinner. I love hanging out with people!

Our plans may have consisted of us watching this

and this

and this

with some of this

I may have missed the last bus home (darn you Sunday schedule!) so I ended up sleeping over. And we decided since I was already there we should watch more Burn Notice. Sounded like a good plan to me.

You see, Blair is moving to the states about a month after I move back and I figured she'll need a show to watch, so why not introduce her to the greatness of Burn Notice now? See, I was doing a service! LOL

On another note.... I have a massive headache. I now remember why I don't grow my hair out. I made the mistake of putting it in a ponytail yesterday and it caught up with me. I may need to take some more ibuprofen in a few hours. :-(

Everyone needs a good laugh!

Tonight on my agenda I need to finish creating an image to screen print (the actual printing and making of item needs to be done by Friday), head to Winco to purchase food to fill 6 food boxes, and get to bed earlier since I'm fighting something.

But I'm still goofing off online.... ;-)

I really enjoyed this group's Twilight Trailer spoof and here's their New Moon one.  (Watch Alice.... she's my favorite part.  The ending is pretty good too.)



My brother found this one for me.  I crack up everytime at the end, oh Jacob!  Make sure you watch the enire thing.  (This group also did a Twilight spoof that was pretty entertaining.)  Personally I think this one is better than the previous one.  I laughed more.



This one comes from Steve and it's rather interesting.  (And funny)



Unfortunately these are the smallest size.... oh well.

Back in May...

I played tour guide to my friends up in Forks, WA.  Am I from there? No.  I just had been there twice before with other people and for some reason I love going back!  We had amazing weather and fantastic time.  Here's some photos highlighting the trip.

Here we are working the Police Station

Look we found Alice Cullen~

Those Hunsaker girls are amazing and hilarious!  So much fun!

Why hello there Amanda, you enjoying the beautiful hike?

Isn't it so pretty?!?!

I so LOVE 2nd Beach!

Time for a Bonfire at First Beach.  Why yes that is an Edward doll.

He just makes pictures so much more fun.

 

I so love taking jumping pictures

 

 

It may be hard to see, but Brittani and Edward are holding hands while they walk to the front of the school. LOL

 

I don't judge you!

We also headed to Kaleloch Beach and the tidepools

You can't see Edward and I.

um... Just some fun in Port Angeles

And time to enjoy some Bella Italia.

three's a charm

Absolutely beautiful day at Indian Beach, which portrayed First Beach. If you're familiar with the Oregon Coast you know it's always windy and cold. It was too hot for our sweatshirts! And the strangest part was that there was no wind....
We had an amazing time. Kim acted like Eric and chased me around with kelp. Never fear, I ran fast. And how could I forget the Twizzler throwing copying Bella's friends.

Oh.. and we smuggled Edward onto "First Beach" and I think some wolves were trying to hunt him down.
Then off to Vernonia to find Charlie at the police station and the back drop of "Forks"
And then on the road for the long drive home.... with a quick stop at Washington Square Mall for dinner at the Cheesecake Factory, but that's another story.

don't ask

Ummmm...

...hmmmm...

...it was late.

And we also discovered our secret language, which I had posted earlier here.

To Be Continued.... Day 3 comes the Beach "The Cullens don't come here." "So you caught that, huh?" Of course she caught that, he said it right in front of her with a 'tude.

April Twilight Movie tour... part two

We started day two by going up to Vancouver to visit Kadow Marina. This marina is private property there were a bunch of house boats so we respected the signs and didn't actually go down to the marina. But that didn't stop us from having a little fun on someone's trailer that has been there for awhile.
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!

A few doors down from the Salon is a really cool shop, the shop has these sweet butterfly wings that you can see on the walls in the dress shopping scene of the movie. And the dresses that were used in that scene were purchased here. Edward is protectively watching us while we shop. (Check out my sister's post concerning this weekend and see how much fun we had in this store...)

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....
And that ends day two because we're off to sleep at the beach. I must warn you I have no excuse for the next several pictures, all I can say is, it was late.

Twilight Movie Tour - April trip

I'm still working on making collages of the New Orleans trip and I have a lot of pictures to weed through so I'm starting with the April Twilight Movie Tour.

Many people asked me, "You went on an actual tour?" No, I made it up and called it a tour because we were "touring" the movie sights around Oregon. Moi, was the tour guide. But they might actually have a tour group that does this but my philosophy is why pay for it when you can do it on your own?
Gift bags included:
1. A granola bar because Alice foresaw that in our excitement we'd forget to eat
2. Sparkle lip gloss that says "kiss"
3. Black bracelets cause Bella wears a black bracelet in the movie
4. The ring pop to symbolize Edward and Bella's love
5. Nail polish (either Crimson Pearl, Midnight Frost, or Black Amethyst) is due to the fact that Alice likes include nail polish with sleep overs and if you happened to get one of the black polishes, I just believe that every woman needs to own some black nail polish.
6. Fling - the tag line says "Naughty but not too naughty" how could i pass that up?

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

Now we're ready to Rock'n Roll!!

I got Mini Edward for my birthday so he wasn't with me during my previous movie tour and I quickly learned that everything is better with Mini Edward. At one point of this trip Mini Edward started to be called Pocket Edward which is a term taken from this amazing site. (seriously check it out, the blog is hilarious!)

First stop is the paper mill which may not have been a paper mill in the movie. This is the location of the nomads first kill.
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.)

Next comes lunch at Carver Cafe. If you can only make it to one movie sight, it has to be Carver Cafe. The food is delicious and the staff was awesome to us geeks. We were lucky enough to be there right in time because Charlie and Bella's table was just getting cleared~! We even used the ketchup bottles that don't squirt ketchup in the movie, but it's ok because they were a low budget film.

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.)

That ends Day 1. We continued to have a fun evening full of laughter and great company. But we weren't too loud because hotel security wasn't called on us.

To be continued.... (it would be too long of a post if I do everything in one. It's already freakishly long.)