Ash and Andre's Awesome Adventure: Twilight!

We woke up this morning quite early for the continental breakfast served in the little motel office. Andre went while I was in the shower, so the Korean lady sent Andre up to our room with a tray filled with muffins, danishes, fruit, granola bars and water (she fixed my breakfast for me). We ended up eating most of it for our lunch. Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch?

We headed out to Forks right away. It took about an hour and half of it was on a gravel road. We suspect that it was in the process of being paved. If not, then there is no way that Edward stormed down that road at 100 miles an hour! It's a windy road with mountain on one side and lake on the other side.

It was very strange to be travelling to the city that has the most number of overcast days in the continental US and there not be a cloud in the sky. It was 18 degrees and completely sunny. Not even a hit of cloudiness.

Forks is actually a very pretty little down. Actually, it's apparently a city according to the sign outside. Upon entering the town, we were bombarded with various Twilight-themed gift shops. Every store had something that was Twilight related in its window. As you go further into the town, it's not as crazy. I saw the High School. It was under construction but from what I could tell, it's exactly as described in the books. There are several different little buildings and an Administration building in the front.

We also stopped at the Hospital where "Carlisle" works, but it wasn't anything special. We couldn't find the police station, so we just continued on to "Luby Beechie". We were excited to spend the sunny afternoon at the beach. Once we got to the beach we saw the strangest sight... The beach (and only the beach) was shrouded in a very, very thick fog that made it look like the sky was overcast. It was very cold and very windy. The water was frigidly cold.

Regardless of the weather, it was still pretty cool wandering on the beach. We didn't find many treasures on the beach, but there was lots of really cool bone-white driftwood.

We decided to leave Luby beechie and go to Rialto Beach in La Push. I figured we had to go to La Push... complete the Twilight experience. We got back onto the road and it was full sun and much warmer. But again, once we got to the beach, it was really, really foggy and cold. We were going to go to First Beach (Twilight beach), but we figured it was the same deal. The Korean lady tried to explain something about "after 6pm until 9pm" something something. We're now wondering if she was talking about the fog.

So we left La Push and headed back to Port Angeles. We had dinner reservations for 6 and it as already 4:30 and it takes an hour to get back.

We had a lovely pasta dinner at La Bella Italia, which in the book, is where Bella and Edward have their first "date". I almost ordered the mushroom ravioli, but got the tortelini instead. It was quite tasty. We were able to walk there from our hotel, so we had some local wine with our dinner. Yum!

And now we're back at the motel watching HBO and relaxing. We have a long trip tomorrow! TTFN!