You may remember that I did a part 1 post of What Happens in Forks just a few days ago. Well, welcome to part 2! If you’re still with me, cool. If not, I suppose that’s okay. I think I’m doing this more as a cathartic exercise of how much I miss people (and this makes me miss them a little less), and a way to remember it all!
Stephenie Meyer Day really started on Thursday this year, which happened to be September 12. What happened? Where did events take place? Up first on our agenda was getting breakfast! I know, that’s not really all that interesting, but we happened to head over to the Forks Coffee Shop – and let me just say, the omelet I had was absolutely delicious and I couldn’t finish it because it was so big! After quite a filling breakfast, Kathryn (who got to play tour guide since she’d been before), took us around to a few of the local sites – which included the Cullen House, the Swan House, Leppell’s, and the Chamber of Commerce (we were all over the place!). While at Leppell’s, we happened upon the lovely Mini Alice – Holly, as well as her mum! (Yep, I said mum). We had seen the first welcome sign the day before coming into town, but the awesome sign is also down by the Chamber of Commerce, where, not only is it a little safer to pose by and park by, but a little taller so you don’t end up covering part of the sign. Our group knew that the Olympic Coven meet and greet would be happening soon enough, so we headed back to our hotel – where I changed thanks to a mishap with some lotion at Leppell’s.
Come meet and greet time, I was armed with my remaining gift bags that hadn’t been given out the night before (for cast members who hadn’t arrived yet), my camera, and the thought of something mischievous that had to happen when it came time for a bit of Jasper time. One of the first things that happened upon going into Mill Creek Bar & Grill (where the meet and greet was held), was receiving a big bear hug from Emmett, aka Travis. Was I shocked? Maybe just a little…but it was a great hug so I’ll take being shocked! In that time, I also got to say my hello to the caramel apple queen (and amazing artist) Tiffany who was playing Rosalie. (Team Tiffalie!) After ordering a round at the bar (hey, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere), our group stayed near the bar while the cast started going around and greeting all that came out to see them. After our time with Victoria and James (aka Katie and, yes his real name is James), we began seeing that most of the cast was in the other section of the bar. Fortunately, Edward and Bella (Alan and Christilynn) also came into our section so we (I suppose I should mention our third group member…Chang Mee!) got some photos, and then decided to move out to the other section so we could meet the other cast members. So what is this mischievous little ploy I’m talking about when it comes to Jasper? Well, as some of you may be aware, the first time I met Jasper (or Josh), he was actually portraying Edward. There happened to be this moment at the convention where I said “this is going to sound weird, but I totally want to do a reverse spider monkey picture with you”. Low and behold, it happened, and when I’d originally found out Josh would be here as someone else, the first thought that came to mind was “I have to do the picture when he’s Jasper too!” So here it is:
It happened. There’s the proof! There was also his lovely wife for the weekend Alice (better known as Vee). I mentioned her in my last blog, and put a photo up, but again I’m saying, why are you not in my suitcase? (I think that should be the theme of these posts!). There was also meeting Carlisle and Esme (Scott and Elle), and of course the lovely and adorable Nessie and that mutt Jacob (Samantha and Subha). I could seriously go on and on with how fantastic it was doing the meet and greet and spending a little time with each of the people there, even non-cast members, but I’ll just say – awesome! Fantastic! Stupendous! And huge thanks Staci!
In between this and the prom, we could’ve gone to dinner with the OC, but ended up not going. Why, you may ask? Well, wanting to look fantastic for prom ourselves, and also then needing to go do some hair maintenance on someone *coughs Katie*, there was going to be little time left in between to get much done. I told my roommates they could go if they wanted, because I knew my hair would take FOREVER (darn you extensions and wanting to look beautiful!), but they also stayed in the room and began getting ready. In the meantime, our new roommates to be were heading to Forks from Seattle (Squee Karina and Nessa would be there soon!). Between texting them, getting ready, and then going to get Katie ready with my awesome (and totally somehow magical) skills (and also ending up helping Christilynn with her hair – way to go Chang Mee!), we found ourselves with little time by the time we made it back to our hotel before the prom would start. When we found out that our new roomies were relatively close to Forks, we ended up waiting for them, and convincing them to come to prom with us!
Kathryn was definitely the hit of the prom with her amazing dress! We all looked beautiful, and sparkled like no other! Prom was a blast. Even though we all questioned some of the music that was played, we all hit the floor (or the yard as the case was) and boogied the entire night! There were even a couple of times that I was dragged out to the center by Jasper, linked arms with Emmett, and found out Rosalie isn’t a dancer. The night at the dance ended on getting photos with the cast (I’m really hoping the one our official photographer took for the weekend turned out better than my horrible cell phone pic), some hugs, and then a short walk back to the hotel.
The new roomies were tired, and frankly after a full day, so were the three of us that had spent a day going on adventures (which did in fact include climbing a tree, and possibly me moving a log!). We headed to bed after that in the hopes of even more amazing adventures for the next day, and as a spoiler – we were not disappointed…at all!
No comments:
Post a Comment