FORKS!

AUGUST 17, 2009



The view on the way to Forks was amazing. I could live here, just off the lake, with the beautiful hills around and close enough to this big cities of Tacoma and Seattle. For those of you that have no idea the significance of Forks, let me give you the run down.
There's a book series out called Twilight and it's about a young girl that moves from Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father while her major league baseball player step-dad and mom hit the road for baseball season. Forks is where her dad lives and while there, she meets and falls in love with a vampire. So, needless to say, this "little" book has put Forks on the map for tourists and even the local weather, that now has Forks on their weather maps on the news! (HA!)

Anyway, so I love this series, the movies are awesome, so Jen and I took her niece and nephew, that have both read the books and seen the movie, to Forks for a quick day trip. Forks is about 4 hours away from Everett, so it was a nice long day, especially since the GPS system took us the wrong way home. Anyway, we had a blast finding all the locations in the book, walking around the high school grounds and spending time in the gift shop (which is like huge!!). I ended up buying some postcards to mail to myself and mom and dad for the Forks postal mark, but sadly, it says Tacoma/Olympia.

Another part of the books is a reservation, Quileute. While that is more of a major role in the second book and beyond, it's still huge and they play right along with the story as well, with wolf tracks painted on the sidewalk, a java hut called Jacob's Java and more. We went to the beach and for the first time ever, I had my feet in the ocean and it was definitely a highlight to my day!

On the way home, we say a family of deer and they just left us watch, not caring that we were there. Although, it was a little worrisome since they were feeding right off the highway and it's curvy!

Here's some more pictures!