In case you have been living under a rock for a while and haven't heard about the Twilight Phenomenon, here's the short story: A girl (Bella Swan) moves to Forks, WA where she falls in love with a vampire (Edward Cullen) and trouble ensues. There's also a minor complication of a childhood friend (Jacob Black) who gets reacquainted with Bella and subsequently falls for her just like all the other boys in town. I tell you all this so you can understand why on earth I'm sharing these photos. Once this book series caught on, females everywhere have fallen in love with the story and have become kind of obsessed with everything to do with the books, including visits to the itty bitty town of Forks. I was not immune to all of this and of course I couldn't pass up a trip to Forks when we were only a few hours away. According to Google, the entire trip was a total length of 333 miles and should take about 6 hours and 38 minutes to drive. Our first stop was going to be Port Angeles, followed by Forks, and then we would make a final stop in La Push. We brought Rally along with us so he wouldn't be stuck at home by himself.
In the book, Bella goes with her two friends Angela and Jessica to go shopping for dresses in Port Angeles. This is the department store that they would have gone to.
After a while, Bella gets bored and decides to look for a particular book store to find out about local legends. This is where she would have gone but she thought that it looked too weird inside so she didn't actually go in.
After a close run in with a group of boys who were up to no good, Edward came to Bella's rescue and took her to dinner at Bella Italia. She ordered Mushroom Ravioli and you can still order that dish here.
That marks the end of the Port Angeles leg of our trip so we were off to Forks, a little over an hour away. This is the Welcome Sign that all Twilight fans have become very familiar with. The town of Forks even decided to build a nice little ramp for all of us geeks to climb up so we can take pictures with the sign.
Here is where Bella lives with her Police Officer father, Charlie. It's one of the very few two story homes in the town.
This house is where Edward and the rest of the Cullen family live. His entire family includes Carlisle and Esme (the "adoptive" parents), Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett (his "adopted" brothers and sisters). This is another one of the few two story homes.
While the family is out, a bed and breakfast is run out of the home. Esme uses a whiteboard in the front of the house to let Twilight fans know what everyone is up to. This is what the sign said on this day.
Bella and Edward, along with his siblings all attend Forks High School. Jacob doesn't go to school here because he attends classes on the reservation.
As a homecoming present from her father, Bella received this big clunker to help her get around town. It's not usually this clean.
While standing outside of her car one day a classmate of Bella's nearly crushed her with his car. Bella went to the hospital where she was introduced to Edward's father, Dr. Cullen. He must be a pretty popular staff member because he gets his very own parking spot at the hospital.
Bella's father Charlie works for the town of Forks as a dutiful police officer. Not too long after Bella arrived in town there was a great deal of crime Charlie had to attend to. Looks like they weren't too busy today.
When she's not busy hanging out with vampires, Bella works a part time job at the Newton's Outfitters shop. One of her classmates, Mike Newton, also works there with her as well.
After we finished exploring the small town we made our way over to the Indian Reservation of La Push. The Quilieute Nation inhabits this beautiful area and this is where Jacob Black lives. The Quilieutes don't take too kindly to vampires.
Finally, we have First Beach. Bella and a bunch of her friends took a trip out to First Beach to spend the day. While they were there, Bella met up with Jacob where they sat on a fallen tree and Jacob told Bella what Edward really was, sort of. Rally and I tried to recreate the scene.
In case you have been living under a rock for a while and haven't heard about the Twilight Phenomenon, here's the short story: A girl (Bella Swan) moves to Forks, WA where she falls in love with a vampire (Edward Cullen) and trouble ensues. There's also a minor complication of a childhood friend (Jacob Black) who gets reacquainted with Bella and subsequently falls for her just like all the other boys in town. I tell you all this so you can understand why on earth I'm sharing these photos. Once this book series caught on, females everywhere have fallen in love with the story and have become kind of obsessed with everything to do with the books, including visits to the itty bitty town of Forks. I was not immune to all of this and of course I couldn't pass up a trip to Forks when we were only a few hours away. According to Google, the entire trip was a total length of 333 miles and should take about 6 hours and 38 minutes to drive. Our first stop was going to be Port Angeles, followed by Forks, and then we would make a final stop in La Push. We brought Rally along with us so he wouldn't be stuck at home by himself.
In the book, Bella goes with her two friends Angela and Jessica to go shopping for dresses in Port Angeles. This is the department store that they would have gone to.
After a while, Bella gets bored and decides to look for a particular book store to find out about local legends. This is where she would have gone but she thought that it looked too weird inside so she didn't actually go in.
After a close run in with a group of boys who were up to no good, Edward came to Bella's rescue and took her to dinner at Bella Italia. She ordered Mushroom Ravioli and you can still order that dish here.
That marks the end of the Port Angeles leg of our trip so we were off to Forks, a little over an hour away. This is the Welcome Sign that all Twilight fans have become very familiar with. The town of Forks even decided to build a nice little ramp for all of us geeks to climb up so we can take pictures with the sign.
Here is where Bella lives with her Police Officer father, Charlie. It's one of the very few two story homes in the town.
This house is where Edward and the rest of the Cullen family live. His entire family includes Carlisle and Esme (the "adoptive" parents), Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett (his "adopted" brothers and sisters). This is another one of the few two story homes.
While the family is out, a bed and breakfast is run out of the home. Esme uses a whiteboard in the front of the house to let Twilight fans know what everyone is up to. This is what the sign said on this day.
Bella and Edward, along with his siblings all attend Forks High School. Jacob doesn't go to school here because he attends classes on the reservation.
As a homecoming present from her father, Bella received this big clunker to help her get around town. It's not usually this clean.
While standing outside of her car one day a classmate of Bella's nearly crushed her with his car. Bella went to the hospital where she was introduced to Edward's father, Dr. Cullen. He must be a pretty popular staff member because he gets his very own parking spot at the hospital.
Bella's father Charlie works for the town of Forks as a dutiful police officer. Not too long after Bella arrived in town there was a great deal of crime Charlie had to attend to. Looks like they weren't too busy today.
When she's not busy hanging out with vampires, Bella works a part time job at the Newton's Outfitters shop. One of her classmates, Mike Newton, also works there with her as well.
After we finished exploring the small town we made our way over to the Indian Reservation of La Push. The Quilieute Nation inhabits this beautiful area and this is where Jacob Black lives. The Quilieutes don't take too kindly to vampires.
Finally, we have First Beach. Bella and a bunch of her friends took a trip out to First Beach to spend the day. While they were there, Bella met up with Jacob where they sat on a fallen tree and Jacob told Bella what Edward really was, sort of. Rally and I tried to recreate the scene.
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