Twilight Star Gazing

Spring Vacation- Day 3

Late Monday morning we headed out to Portlad. Samantha and Elise really wanted to go to Kalama WA, about an hour north of Portland, to visit the set of a movie based on a book called "Twilight". Both girls have read the book several times and are anxiously awaiting the movie. As luck would have it they were filming at the High School in Kalama the days we were there, so we took them. When we got to the High School I asked one the the "roadies" if we could get in to see the set, but she informed me that "No, it is a closed set."
Brad decided that if maybe he asked someone else they would let he and Samantha peek in. He went and asked another guy who denied them again, until Brad informed him we had driven 3 hours to see it, so he let them in. Samantha was super excited to see the gym adapted to fit the "Forks High School" theme of the book, and saw a hospital room set they had set up and got a glimpse of one of the actresses (Bella).

We hung around for about 45 minutes, but never saw anymore action. Just the same Samantha seemed satisfied with our excursion to Kalama.

If you click on the picture to enlarge it you will see the banner on the wall says "Forks High School"

This we suspect is "Bella's Truck" It was parked outside the high school (and behind security), so the girls got their picture next to it.

After our excursion to Kalama we went to our hotel for the younger ones much anticipated swim in the hotel pool! Only, once we got to the hotel we discovered that there we something wrong with the pool heater and the pool was a very chilly 70 degrees!! They still jumped in a few times though and spent some time in the hot tub.