The Journey to the Land of Twilight - Day 1

Wednesday, August 24th, my sister and I set off for an adventure that thousands of teens had embarked on before us. An adventure that involved vegetarian vampires that sparkle and an incredibly ripped werewolf. There is only one place in there world where you can have this legendary Twilight experience. It was Forks, Washington and we were on our way.

EXCITEMENT.
The first leg of our journey was to travel from Bremerton to Seattle to meet up with my sister's roommate who would be joining us on our journey. We rode the ferry, which we've done so many times in the past its hard to appreciate the beauty of the scenery. But it was a beautiful sunny day and Mt. Rainier was picture perfect.

We were spending the night in Seattle and setting off in the morning as soon as the roommate was ready. She had to work until 7am, but she wanted to leave without sleeping. That is how pumped we were for this trip. The next morning after some extreme caffeination and filling the Prius up with gas we headed out at 10am. We decided to take the Kingston/Edmonds ferry because that is what the GPS told us to do. Who were we to argue? Unfortunately trying to catch the ferry from the Edmonds side was incredibly confusing. We somehow managed to pull into line without going through the toll booth. It was an accident, I swear. After asking how to pay to get on the boat, we were instructed to get back on the highway and turn around and aim at the toll booths in the far right lanes. Yeah, that wasn't going to happen. We pulled a u-turn and got in line. After a 10 minute delay and ample confusion about who's lane got to load when, we made it on to the boat and proceeded to explore the vessel.

Goodbye Edmonds!

At one point on our ferry ride, we wanted to get a picture of the three of us. The roommate asked a nearby "gentleman" to take it for us which he enthusiastically agreed to. As we readied ourselves and put on our best smiles, the man says "Ok, now kiss!" Alarmed at his off color humor, we chuckle a little to ourselves without ruining our smiles. Instead of just taking the picture the man says again, this time a little more forcefully, "Kiss! KISS!" At this point I've stopped smiling and just started muttering under my breath "get the camera back, just get the camera back now..." So we quickly disbanded and got our camera back. We settled for pictures in groups of two after that.

Hello Kingston!

Upon arrival we drove through the town of Kingston headed toward Port Angeles, our first scheduled pit stop of the trip. However, on our way, we discovered we would be driving right through Port Gamble an adorable little lumber mill town, so our first stop of the trip was Port Gamble!

Upon arrival we searched high and low, but didn't not find anything Twilight related.

But we did find a stuffed seagull featured in the Barbara Streisand film "What's Up Doc?"

This was discovered in the ocean and sea museum above the general store in Port Gamble. I highly recommend visiting if you are ever driving through! Where else can you find the remains of a famous bird?

And so begins our trip to the most famous city in the vampire crazed preteen world. Next stop, Port Angeles!