Day Four!

Well today we made it to our first official Twilight destination!!! We checked out of our hotel in Seattle, took the ferry (I have a thing for ferry boats...) from Edmonds to Kingston, & drove up to Port Angeles!




We checked in to our hotel, which is the cutest ever!


It's so homey & adorable, & just a block or two from the beach! Gorgeous! We got settled in, freshened up, & then hit the town! We walked into some cute little antique shops, gift shops (one of which has a coffee shop next to it which serves VAMPIRE KISS LATTES - not sure what they are, but that'll definitely be out coffee stop tomorrow morning!


& of course, hit up all the "Twilight Sites." We saw the dress shop where Jessica, Angela, & Bella look for prom dresses:


The movie theater where Bella goes with Jessica then Mike & Jacob:





The Italian restaurant where Bella & Edward had their first date:





The bookstore where Bella buys her book on the Quileute tribe:


After our little tour around town, we went to a store called "Dazzled by Twilight" which is a boutique entirely dedicated to Twilight merchandise, aka, heaven. Ha ha. They sold the engagement ring that Edward gives Bella, so naturally, I bought one! :-)






After that, we walked along the beach for awhile, & then headed to Bella Italia (where Edward & Bella had their first date!) to eat. They couldn't take us right away, so we made reservations for a little later. We went back to our hotel for awhile, kicked back, freshened up, & then headed back out to eat dinner. I of course had mushroom ravioli & a coke. :-)

Being that we were in Port Angeles, & anyone who's read any of the Twilight books knows that Port Angeles is where you go to the movies. So what else could we do? We went & saw Eclipse (since Face-Punch was all sold out. ;-p).

Now we're all settled in for the night in our room in our jammies, getting ready for another drive tomorrow to our final & most anticipated destination... FORKS, WASHINGTON!!!

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Port angeles welcomes us! :-)

Day Three!

Today we woke up early to catch the 10 am tour of our hotel. Apparently our hotel has been around since the 20's! One of the stories they told us was that Ozzy Osborne saw somebody kill themselves! He saw somebody fly by his window & he called the front desk to tell them to call 911. We got to see the reports & everything! Crazy!



After our hotel tour, we headed down to Pike Place Market. The first stop we made was an adorable antique store. I needed new glasses, so I got ADORABLE vintage 1950's glasses & I'll let the lenses replaced with my own prescription when I get home. We tried on awesome old hats, & wandered around in there for awhile.






We walked around Pike Place for awhile & then headed to get on the Duck Tour! If you've never been on a Duck Tour before it's a giant vehicle they used to use in World War 2 that can drive on land & then go straight into water. It drove us all around Seattle & into Union Lake to cruise around the harbor. We got to see places where Grey's Anatomy, 10 Things I Hate About You, & Sleepless in Seattle were filmed! Our tour guide was hilarious & his name was Chuck Wagon! Ha ha. He had a southern accent & was from Georgia. Awesome!






After that we got some lunch at a place called Zeek's Pizza! Nichole had pepperoni, & I had one with red peppers, basil, goat cheese & garlic. Mm mm mm!
http://www.zeekspizza.com/

Then, we went to the Space Needle! One of the elevators that takes you up to the top was broken, so we had to wait over an hour to get up there! The view was gorgeous, & it definitely helped that we had a gloriously sunny day here. Still too sunny for any vampire sitings.




After we got off the 605 foot tall Space Needle, we got the monorail across town to go on Bill Speidel's Underground Tour at Pioneer Square. When they originally settled & built Seattle, it was flooding really easily from the water coming in and out. Then there was a big fire, so the re-built the city, but higher up. So they just kind of laid the foundation for the new city right on top of the old. So there's a whole underground system down there! It was kind of creepy, & smelled nasty, but very cool to hear some of Seattle's history.



After a long day of walking the city, we headed over to Pier 57 to eat at the Crab Pot. Nichole & I both got whole dungeness crabs & man they were GOOOOOD. We were pretty silent the entire meal. Lol. So, SO delicious!





Now we're just hanging out in our room, watching hitch, & helping our sore muscles relax!

Enjoy the slideshow below with all our pictures from our very long day of touring! We'll talk to you tomorrow!

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Day Two!

After an axhausting 10 & 1/2 hour drive from Redding, we arrived in Seattle, WA!

We found our beautiful & historic hotel, The Camlin (Thanks to Katie & her family!), with no troubles! The parking attendants we extremely confusing. Lol. He told us to double park in front of the hotel, then take our bags in & check-in. When we checked in, the front desk people told us we could take our bags up to the room & then we could come back down & move our car. As we were walking up to the elevator, the parking attendant comes running into the lobby telling us that the police were gonna come get us if we didn't move our car, the police were going to come & get us. Lol. Can we say a weeeee bit over-dramatic? So we park around the corner in the hotel's parking lot, & we start walking back to the hotel, & these 2 guys are across the street from us are saying something like "I'm gonna make a t-shirt that says 'You're Beautiful!'" & then they do a total 180 & come over to Nichole & tell her how beautiful she is, & asked us where we were from, it took him about 3 times to understand that we were saying "The San Francisco Bay Area," he said things like, "Oh Bavaria? Cool."

After we got into our room, we freshened up & headed out for dinner at Gordon Biersch. It was super yummy, but after a long day of driving, we were totally pooped. We went back to our hotel after, got ready for bed, & hit the hay.

Enjoy the pictures below of our journey from Redding to Seattle! :-D
Love & miss you all!


Nichole & Sabrina's friendship animal! Ha ha. Poor thing is being towed!








Seattle excitement!!!










Edward wearing my sandwich as a hat & enjoying some Doritos. Ha ha.






Buh-Bye Oregon!!






Heading up there Wednesday!!!


Our first view of the Seattle cityscape! <3










The day just wouldn't be complete without a werewolf...


...& a vampire! <3