FORKS 2011 - Let the Recovery Begin

I have to say that this recovery may take longer than usual.

It isn't just the hangover that lingers, nor the aches and pains from beautiful hikes and my sweet dance moves.... no, this recovery is deeper than that.... it is that small piece of my heart that breaks leaving that amazing place and more importantly, the amazing people!

Last year I only stayed one night and the connections I made were incredible... This year, I stayed two night and had the most amazing time. The memories and friendships will last....

Where do I begin....

The drive and ferry trip was beautiful! The sun was shining, my music blaring and I enjoyed the trip, even though I was missing @Lorabell who joined me last year.

I arrived Friday in Port Angeles for Bella Italia with some of the group.

Then it was off to Forks where I quickly changed and we went to the Elk's Lodge where the Twitarded Party was getting started.

My roomies were @red_bella @defenderofmice @starlitviolets and we had a blast..... our room was HUGE... it was a suite with two beds in the room, another bed in the living room and a full kitchen and bathroom.

It was a rather tame first night after a long day of travel and a busy Saturday ahead of me, but we visited, danced, giggled and caught up with old and new friends.

Despite my lack of social skills that evening, I did get to chat with @17foreverlisa - love that girl!

There was a photo op station and I let Eddie wear my Canadian beads to show his support.

Karaoke was in full swing and I have to say that there were some awesome singers... regardless of the skill level we had a blast singing and dancing the evening away.

There are more pics of this "Bloward" doll... he has a peen... and it came out.. a lot... I posted those pics on FB (Mandy S Mind)

There was corn on the cob and salad and pasta and other great food, but I had eaten at Bella Italia so I didn't get any... I heard it was delicious though!

I missed the shuttle home and got a ride with @Trixieandtess @allthingsHHH and @JiffSimpson who were heading to the bar.

I was sad to be so tired that night because it meant I didn't go to the bar to socialize more, I didn't really talk to many people that night and sadly some people were leaving... in particlar @misstejota but the good news is I did get a quick visit with her, got her the abduction t-shirt she won on my blog AND arrange BD tix for NYC this November... score!

When i got to the room I was exhausted and it didn't take long for me to crash - hard!

Saturday I planned to sleep in, but my body wouldn't allow it. I woke up and we went for breakfast. Here are my fabulous roomies:

Then we drove out to the Hoh rainforest (yes... the "ho" ) where we took the "Hall of Mosses" trail... absolutely stunning!

Again, I have many more photos of trees and moss and the beautiful trails on my FB album

After that @red_bella and @defenderofmice went shopping while I trained @starlitviolets on the art of jello shot making (she aced it by the way!)

then I went to do a bit of shopping before the Twilight Tour with Travis. Let me just say, last year we did the drive on your own tour, which was cool.... but Travis is so hilarious and informative... I highly recommend paying the money to take his tour! His humour and knowledge was so great. He had theme music, random Forks and Twilight facts, trivia, jokes, and even Quileute words.

I took a ton of photos on the tour here are a few...

I could do a whole blog JUST on the tour (maybe I will) but trust it was great fun and well worth the trip!

Forks 2010 Photo (with forks) on my phone...

I had a water bottle with me for the tour... only it wasn't water, it was Bacardi Strawberry Daquiri and I drank it all... so after the tour when i stumbled back to our room I was feeling pretty tipsy!

I was anxious to see if jello shots were ready.... they had been ready... and had been consumed... and had been ditributed door2door at the motel.... This made me sad because there was only one peach jello shot left... my fave flavour *gasp*

To be fair, I didn't ask them to save them for me, but that was because I didn't think they would be ready before I got back... ah well.. I gave @Starlitviolets shit... and plenty of it ha ha!

After far too many jello shots we shuttled to the Elk's for round 2 Twitarded Party... pizza, nacho-bar, salad, we snacked and danced and mingled and... drank.... a lot....

What was most awesome was that everyone got a string of tickets for prize draws (which when dropped on the floor apparently resembled a red snake.... ready to attack *ahem* anyways..) the amount of donation of prizes was epic.... unfortunately that meant we spent a shitton of time drawing prize winners... instead of dancing.... c'est la vie!

I am not complaining, I won a ton of cool stuff.. the trick was to put your tickets in the Jacob stuff because hardly anyone wanted that stuff tee hee... well a few of us did!

I won a diary tin box, the jacob barbie (which I really wanted for my daughter), mascara (which I didn't even realize I entered to win make-up), then @mama_cougar had to leave, and everyone else who left had given her their tickets so she passed them onto me and I got some comics (which I may use as a giveaway in the future)

Anyhow, after what seemed like hours of giveaways it was time to clean up.... @Starlitviolet is so sweet she collected all the helium filled balloons....

then....

SHE POPPED THEM!

@alltwiedup has a great photo of my reaction to this horrifying occurence... Posted the photos from @alltwiedup... I wanted to bring them all in the shuttle home to our room... what a party that would have been... oh wait.. it was a party.. but I will get to that ;)

Anyways, @alltwiedup and I sucked some helium and talked dirty about beanie Rob... tee hee

Thanks @alltwiedup for these pics

I hopped on a shuttle and was educated on the fact that FSE is not an STD, but in fact an abbrieviation for "Full-Size-Edward" (almost lost my e-card for that epic fail - thanks @lindsayrae114)

Went to the room where I popped @ChloeCougar and @LoriAnnTwiFan jello-shot-cherry

Slowly more people arrived by shuttle and/or from their own rooms to our room. Since it was a Suite, and at the end, and had a fridge of jello shots... it became the go-to party spot and we had people coming and going all night... such fun! the majority of those photos I can't post... we were all intoxicated and there are some not-so-flattering-drunk-pics as well as some awfully-drunk-or-i-wouldn't-be-doing-this pics and the internet is simply not the place for some of those photos ha ha. Oh and @norcaltwitard said she would kick my ass if I posted some... ha ha

Speaking of... she @amandakmelby and me did some loving walkie-talkie style messages to @twikiwi50 Needless to say there was a lot of alcohol consumed and laughs had... It was awesome getting to know more people better and enjoy the last night.

My drink of choice was Orange Soda with Whipped Vodka, though I ended the night with Orange soda and cake vodka... ha ha...

By the time everyone left it was just after 4am and we slowly crawled into our beds to crash...

This morning I woke up hungover still drunk.... so I had some water and went back to sleep... the second wake up was not much better, but I had a shower and packed up then we went for breakfast before saying our good-byes.

There were tears and hugs and love all around as people left... such bonds formed amongst all the ladies... I drove home my mind full and heart heavy after such an amazing experience over the weekend.

No words can describe how AMAZING some of these women are... I only wish they all knew how absolutely beautiful they are inside and out....

So as Forks 2011 comes to an end (though some lucky ladies are still there a day or two more) the recovery begins... while the hangover and exhaustion will probably fade first, my full mind and heavy heart will last... I FLOVE THESE BITCHES!

MORE PICS ON FACEBOOK Mandy S Mind!

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Besides the mumerous wonderful people I already mentioned above, here are some other shout-outs:

Obviously @JennyJerkface @SnarkierThanYou @LatchkeyWife @Myg

@Jaymes805 (awesome chikita!!)

@DangrDafne (who I got to give her abduction pposter prize too finally)

@muffintopped (party girl)

@fatgirlslimmed

@Vitaminr70 (epic Rainier beer box hat)

@Twi_Lin (who made scrabble letter Rob pins that are awesome and I won't put in the wash this year)

@Double_Dippin (who was hair molested)

@tattoomickey (who organized a great bella italia trip)

@Rikki_DD (who has an unhealthy obsession with Michael Bolton)

@donnersun

@thePPMonster (who put me in my place when I made fun of my husband for pre-ordering an xbox game... "um, you are in FORKS right now" ha ha point taken!)

@LCM174EV

@twipolar_wife

(who has a master plan to be my bff and while i distract Rob with petty convo she indulges in other parts of him) @musingbella

@livingWEdward

@Sweden_Anna

@SwedenSara

@TheRugbyMom (who discovered "someone else's thong" ont he sidewalk this a.m. ha ha)

I am missing a ton of people... but I am horrible with matching twitter names to real names to faces... typically I can only get two of them not all three... add the amount of booze and hilarious incidents as well as how tired I currently am... yes, this list will be updated...but first.. I MUST SLEEEEEEP

#FORKS2011

Well the day has arrived.... Twitarded Forks Trip (Round 2) is this weekend and I leave tomorrow for a very long drive, ferry, and drive to Port Angeles for dinner with some lovely ladies at Bella Italia, after which I will go join them all in Forks. Friday and Saturday night we are partying hard and Sunday evening I will return home... probably hung over.

If you are there.... see you soon.....

If you are not..... I am sorry!

If you don't hear from me it's because I am drunk and my phone has been taken away ha ha Lot's of photos and tweets and stories to come.... XO Mandy

Countdown to #Forks2011

I am pretty excited. Not Gonna Lie

Last year, I was heading to Portland for Creation's Twilight Convention with @Lorabell (Where we did the EPIC Catherine Hardwicke Twilight Set Tour! And pitstopped in Astoria for some Goonie's set sites) but we stopped for anight to partake in Twitarded's 2010 Forks Trip.

In just onenight I met some of the most awesome people ever, was reunited with some of my fave Twi-friends ever, and drank enough to feel no shame in peeing behind Bella's truck.

This year, I am going for two nights and I expect it will be nothing short of epic.



We pretty much take over the town, and absolutely take over the motel




Last year there was the Twilight Lounge and Dungeon where we rocked out allll nightttt longgggg (no joke, @StarlitViolets and I shut the place down and her and her hubby pretty much carried me back to my room where @TwiredJen watched me drunk fall into bed)


Yup that is me in behind the dance party, mingling but too drunk to quite stay standing if I shake mah groove thang too hard

 This year instead of the bar, which sadly shut down for economic reasons, the lovely ladies at Twitarded have booked a hall and a shuttle to / from hall (I think this is in part to avoid me being arrested for peeing in public) and some other surprises for us Twi Gals to partay hard this weekend!

I can not wait! People have been asking... why? "It's not Stephenie Meyer day" and "Is there something going on"

My answer - NO not Stephenie Meyer day, this is BIGGER than that - this is

TWITARDED DOES FORKS (Part 2)

Yes, those were all mine.... One bartender, 100+ of us... you stocked up when you could

Hope to see you there...... I Promise it will be a blast and I will post pics and stories after.... well... some... What Happens in Forks, Stays in Forks.... ha!

Twoilet in Forks Wa. - Funny

This cracks me up because I may or may not have had too much to drink in FOrks last year with Twitarded and possibly had to pee on the walk back to the hotel. I will leave it at that but it was sacrilege and these port-o-potties will be good for my next Forks Trip end of September... Twoilets ha!

The members of West End Business & Professional Association and Forks Chamber of Commerce have gone in together on two Sanicans placed downtown for the summer tourists. Merchants in the area of the stoplight had been complaining about Twilight visitors using their restrooms which are usually back in store rooms and not meant for public use.





So a regular sanican was delivered first and when the folks at West Waste and Recycling delivered the second one it had a custom paint job, I call it the "Twilight Twoilet."





Now Forks visitors have their pick: regular or Twilight!

[Via Twifans

Forks 2011 Trip

Last Year on route to Creation's Twilight Convention in Portland, I stopped by Forks for Twitarded's Forks Trip 2010.

Let me tell you, it was AMAZING!

There were 150+ people there all for the trip. I only stayed one night but I had the BEST time ever! Got to meet so many other fans I knew from online from all over the globe, literally!

This year they are doing it again so I plan to go to Forks September 30 - October 2, 2011. I will be driving down if anyone local wants to car pool let me know. I hope to stay at the Forks MOtel, though it books fast so hopefully I can score a room... and am willing to roomie-up with peeps.

Here is the forum you can sign up for to get info and plan.

Last year there were activities and tours and fun. Lot's you can do on your own or with the group.

This post on twitarded has more on the trip.

Would love to see some of you there! Such a fun weekend to just be crazy-fun!

Last year was a blast, see Photos on my facebook - - - but 2011 will be even better!!

Forks High School torn down

I am so glad that I had a chance to see and photograph it last year.

More at Seattle Times.

My Trip - Day 1

Finally I am getting to START blogging on my AMAZING trip....

More...


I woke up early and took my kiddo to school, kissed my husband good-bye and went to pick up the lovely @Lorabell.

We had a pit stop in Bellingham to get new tires on my car and have breakfast with Elyse.

Then we hit the road for Keystone/Port Townsend ferry.

We swapped life stories and snapped some amazing photos of the coast and ferry.

We were several hours behind schedule but it meant we could stop in Port Angeles at Bella Italia for some dinner.

I don't eat mushrooms so I ordered the Manicotti.... but our appie and the bread and balsalmic was delicious!

We finally made it to Forks for Twitarded Weekend....

Twitarded gets air at Kalaloch Beach - Photo from Twitarded

We met some fellow Twitarded people and chatted it up.

By the time we got into Forks it was time to party.

We rested briefly and headed to The Dungeon, the "volturi themed" bar.

It was not nearly large enough for the over 100 of us.

We drank, laughed, hung out with the photographers and cameramen that Jenny Jerkface and STY brought along with them.

Here is a sample of the craziness.... Charlie 'staches, twidoll sex, and more:

Soon they opened up the Twilight Lounge upstairs and we went up for dancing and more drinking. There were these cute lil apples all over the tables and the bartender even gave me one - which was rad because I planned to steal one (or 10) anyways...

Met some amazeballs people and got slightly more intoxicated than anticipated.

Luckily the locals were there to entertain us and a few hard core partiers (I am looking at you @StarlitViolets) who helped me shut the place down!

Somehow we got back to the hotel and I was lifted off the floor into bed where I apparently crashed instantly....

I woke up feeling not so hot... but that is Day 2 - - - Coming Soon!

Forks & Portland October 2010

I will not only be attending the October Portland Tiwlight Convention, but also presenting. I have known for a while and mentioned it to a few close friends but as I have started to get emails from people I figured I might as well pblicly announce it on my blog.

Yes, I will be presenting at the convention and I am super excited to share some never before seen photos and stories of my experiences with the Twilight Saga.

I really hope to meet and see some of you again...

Details and Tickets available here

THe Convention runs Friday October 1 - 3 and before hitting Portland I will be in Forks for a night or two to meet up with lot's of Twilight bloggers who are going to Forks for the weekend.

I can't wait!

Stay at "Jacob's" - not really - but a place that looks like his place - kinda

I don't get it - to be honest, I don't get "Forks" that much. I mean I am excited to go in October and shop and see the area that inspired Stephenie Meyer's books - but it isn't real. Vampires don't REALLY exsist... so it's just seeing the inspiration... fine. But this is newly built - it is inspired by the movie based on the book based on the town... so it just seems odd to me.

Wanna stay at Jacob Black's house? Well now you can...


Forks vacation farmhouse rental: 4 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms,
sleeps 10, covered porches, firepit, BBQ



"Come and stay at Jacob’s House for a great time at reasonable rates. Sam and Emily’s Apartment: has a King bed, full kitchen, bath, living room with a futon. Sam and Emily’s room decorated in red and just the room for the wolf pack leader. Lots of privacy and space. Jacob Black’s Apartment has two queen beds, and bunk beds. Sleeps six. The apartment has a kitchenette, full bathroom, and a sitting area. Whole house for up to 10 people to enjoy the privacy of the entire house and yard"


The rates are a whopping $250/night $1,500/week per property (USD)!

I don't know - may be cool especially with a bunch of twi-gals ;)