Stick a Fork in me, I'm done!

We are back from our fun filled weekend in Forks. The Twilight books have brought in a steady stream of tourists and most of the town's people are being really great sports about it.





The Mayor proclaimed Sept. 13th Stephenie Meyer day and celebrated "Bella's" birthday with a party in the park. They had hokey vampire music playing, birthday cake, endless photo ops and of course, plenty of vendors there to sell their Twilight inspired goods. Bella's truck was there (with a new paint job - red??) Chief Swan and Edward's Volvo.... umm, where's Edward?


















The local restaurants have updated their menus to represent Bella, Edward and Jacob. We enjoyed the "Bella Burger" from Sully's burger stand, where even the employees have gotten into the spirit of fangs.







The tour of the town and Forks High School was great! The actual students took the day to give tours of their school and did a car wash to raise money. They decorated various classes from the book to show where Bella and Edward would have sat, eaten and of course what the combo was for their shared locker. Edward's jacket smelled heavenly!


























After shopping for dinner at the Forks Outfitters, we all headed down to LaPush and took in a Quileute Indian "wolf dance" followeb by a bonfire down at the beach. It was really cool - literally, we froze! We ate Indian Fry bread with fresh huckleberry jam, drew in the sand and even said hi to the real Jacob (the kid the character was inspired by).
























All in all it was a great weekend and from what I understand the town will be celebrating for years to come!