Olympic National Park & T to the Twilight

Over Thanksgiving weekend we went up to one of the most beautiful places on earth- The Olympic National Park.

Our sojourn began on the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island. We then drove another couple hours to get there.

Lake Crescent. If we are ever billionaires I want a cabin here. As we drove back at the end of our trip, Mike pulled over right where this picture was and decided it would be a good time to go for a swim. So, in the rain and utter darkness (did I mention it was night?), he changed into his swimsuit and jumped into the November freezing cold water!

 Hike to Marymere Falls

 I kept waiting for the trolls to come out.

 Hoh Rainforest- one of the few temperate rainforests in the U.S.

 It was raining the whole time, SURPRISE!

These pictures don't do this place justice. I seriously wanted to climb a tree, build a house out of moss, and live there.

 And we stayed in FORKS! The Twilight Mecca!

 So embarrassed as all the cars pass me by.

 This is for realsies.

Did you know that a fictional vampire doctor actually has a parking spot reserved at a hospital! We were dying inside as we tried to find it. Imagine driving around a real, live, functioning hospital where real, live, sick people are being treated, looking for the parking spot of the aforementioned fictional vampire doctor just so you can get a picture. Ohhh the strange turnings in our stomachs!

Now, imagine that feeling doubled as you approach a normal home, in a normal neighborhood, where a family is looking at you from their living room window. You stop and take some pictures of their house as they look back at you from their house. You feel like the stalker in a murder story, only you are not. Because this is Forks, and this is the house with the "Home of the Swans" sign out in front. Regardless, the discomfort is almost too much to bear, and this is when you speed away and remind yourself that it is their fault you went in the first place. They put the sign out, after all.

This wasn't so bad; "Bella's car" is at the Visitors' Center. And Mike didn't make me get out to take a picture with it.

A beach in La Push. This is the Indian Reservation of the Quileute Tribe. What a mystical, beautiful place! Apparently Jacob the werewolf lives nearby, but we didn't have time to visit his house.

It really was so fun to visit the Twilight capitol of the world. I wanted to do it before we moved from Washington. And there is so much to do and see in the Olympic National Forest. We will definitely have to go back!