Leaving, On a Jet Plane...

I am at Seatac, I am flying stand by and unfortunately my Seatac - JFK flight was full as was the JFK - Orlando, so I swapped to a Boston layover which meant a midnight departure not 9pm....luckily I had a ride down not a shuttle so we went to Red Lobster for dinner.

I had never been to a Red Lobster because 1- we don't have any near me and 2 - I am not a huge seafood fan.... wait - I lie... When I lived in Michigan we went once.... but I was 20... we are talking ten years ago, I barely even remember going....

Anmyways, I had steak and lobster, figured you couldn't go wrong with a surf & turf... it was good...

Now I am at the airport awaiting my flight, it is chilly here at the gate, glad I brought my parka, even though i am heading to sunny Florida... is it weird I want to try some oranges while I am there... I have a vision of myself walking through orange fields, er... orchards... and picking oranges to eat... ha ha unlikely...

I am excited for this trip because I can scratch two more states off my "MUST SEE USA STATES"

Boston MA, although just a lay over, is two hours and honestly, anything more than an hour counts in my books, airport only - or not.....

Then Orlando FL for the weekend... I can't even wait.

My plans this weekend, in case you pan to stalk me, include:

Twilight Convention Saturday (I am presenting too woot woot)

Daytona Beach

Harry Potter World

City Walk/Bars/karaoke

Site-seeing/Tours

I am super excited as it is a friends birthday so a few of us gals are flying in to celebrate :)

When I get back it's work work all week then holidays for the holidays, we aren't travelling, except maybe driving to Seattle, but we plan to enjoy home, Christmas and fun times....

We have our annual Christmas Sweater/PJ Party and family plans and gingerbread house making and present wrapping and hopefully some snow... if not we will probably head to a local mountain for snow tubing or something fun... Last year we went to the local mountain to snow tube then to my aunt's for dinner and an outdoor hot tub in the snow - - epic!

Anyways, this is deffo more personal blog but I am sitting here bored at the airport.....

Have a fabulous weekend and I promise to tweet, tumblr, facebook and blog all the fun adventures :)

November Twi-Trip

November is going to be absolute insanity. I have likely bitten off more than I can chew, but that tends to be how I roll!

I am drowning at work right now, not only is it the busiest time of year for me, my daughter has been sick, I am planning a trip next month and I just feel like I am going crazy... that is why the bloggy has been lacking...

I apologize! Real Life sometimes creeps in and kicks my butt!

More... So Basically the next week is absolutely nuts. Then after next weekend, I have less than a week, in fact, 3 or so days, to get packed and prepared for my trip.

Here is my plan (tentative and still working out kinks)

-Wednesday Nov 2 - Drive to Seattle and Fly to Cali

-Thursday Nov 3 - Check out Grauman's Theatre where a certain trio are getting their hand prints done in the cement.

-Check into hotel and hopefully relax, unless I have tix to a talk show, I applied for a few ha ha

-Friday 4th - Sunday6th is the Convention, Saturday the BIG day with a certain trio on stage in the early evening and most of the cast on stage throughout the day.

-Sunday 6th -Wednesday 9th- move to my cheap hotel ha ha relax for a few days with friends, site-seeing, talkshows maybe... open for suggestions

-Wednesday my buddies arrive and we check into new hotel and prepare for "premiere camping" this will be my first experience (ok WFE NYC but I have scratched that from my memory forever) so I am not sure what to expect but there IS a group of us who plan to do hotel/camp rotations however often permitted by security

-That weekend will be a blur of rotations, mingling, and likely some debauchery

-Monday 14th is the premier, I don't knwo what to expect but if things go well some red carpet action and maybe seeing the movie, to be honest, I would rather see it than red carpet it because I guess I am weird that way LMAO

-That night we have a hotel near LAX and in the early morning fly to NYC

-Check into Hotel, friend has classes while there, but I have other friends living or visiting NYC that I get to see, we have a few things planned such as a BD Screening and a BD midnight release and maybe take in some talk shows and/or broadway shows (I did rush seats in April and got $30 row 4 to How to Succeed in Business and then met Daniel Radcliffe out back... so worth it!!)

-Stay at friends last couple nights, just enjoy the city

-Sunday Nov 20 - FLY HOME!!!!

Tell me I am not crazy......... because I am feeling pretty damn crazy!

After this crazy October though, I deserve a break and this is a little bit more than a break but will be a blast!

When I return it is down to Seattle for USA Thanksgiving with the family and then December is staying home for recoop ha ha

I promise to take tons of photos and tweet lot's and blog lot's and share the experience for those who won't be there!!!

For those that WILL be there (or for at least part, be it the convention, the premiere, nyc, or where ever....) please let me know! I would love to meet up with as many people as possible during this adventure :-)

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Mandy

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!