View From a Vampire: April 2009

4.24.2009

Trying to Fit a Square into a Circle was My Life

Today, we braved the wrath of Route 5 South to take Edward to the lovely seaside town of Laguna Beach ("The REAL O.C."). After having lunch at Pasta Pomodoro, the preferred date spot of Kristin, Stephen, & LC, we did some shopping, grabbed some ice cream and headed down to the beach.

You Know You Want It

And by "it", I obviously mean this amazing umbrella Colleen is modeling (bad luck!!)

We finally found the Special Borders Edition DVD: Yes, we do want it.

In other bookstore-related news, tonight we had an embarrassingly revealing conversation with one of Colleen's coworkers at Barnes & Noble. While shopping for High School Musical 2: The Dance Along Edition, he asked if we had seen Zac Efron in 17 Again... Colleen answered, "Oh yeah...twice. And we just came from seeing The Hannah Montana Movie... Again."

4.18.2009

America Runs on Edward

During an Easter vacation to Massachusetts, Edward sampled all the culinary sensations he can't find in Forks, such as Friendly's and Bertucci's. However, he was happiest to see Dunkin' Donuts, and here he is drinking a latte.

Step off our Man

I guess other people share our Mike Newton obsession??

4.12.2009

Outtakes on a Plane

Just found these from Edward's first Disney trip, that didn't make it the first time around.

Snapes on a Plane

To our *many* avid readers, thoughts about Michael Sheen of Frost/Nixon being cast as Aro in New Moon? He's a good actor, but we still think Snape would have done a better job.

4.09.2009

Sexiest Man Alive.

Team Mike Newton 4Ever.

Today's Adventures

Today, we took Edward on a trip to the In N Out on Sunset Boulevard.

Edward looks on: Animal-Style Fries!!

So, what are we gonna be? T-E-A-M TEAM MIKE NEWTON!!

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Christmas Wish List

Two please. These aren't creepy at all.

Yup.

Quote from the ticket lady at Disneyland upon seeing Edward in Colleen's hand as we enter the park: "Ohh how cute...you brought a date!"

Fave Line

La Push, Baby...It's La Push.

Celeb Sightings: Week of April 9, 2008

Holly Madison ... 1

Tracy Morgan ... 1

"Ron Weasley" ... 1

Dane Cook ... 1

Seth Rogen ... 1

Anna Faris ... 1

Ray Liotta ... 1

Blonde guy from Fired Up ... 2

Bob Saget ... 1

Leo Dicaprio (?) ... 1

Rob Pattinson ... 0

Forks, Wash.

As dedicated readers of our blog know, Mrs. Mike Newton made the voyage to the Mecca of all things Twilight-related, Forks, Washington. (You can see the pictures here, here, here, andhere... and here.) We decided to undertake this adventure for the March 20th DVD release of Twilight the movie. For some reason, we decided that the 21-hour drive from Los Angeles to Forks (the northwestern-most corner of the Olympic Peninsula) would be completely reasonable to do during a Thursday-Sunday period.

This story begins with two very naive young(ish) girls. We left the Greater Los Angeles area at 9:30 pm on Thursday night, aiming to be in Forks for the "Dazzled by Twilight" midnight release party on Friday night. Driving through the night, with only Starbucks and New Moon on CD to keep us alive/awake, we finally made it through the cow fields of Route 5 North to the glorious town of Redding, California. Yes, as the sun rose at 7 am the next morning, we were STILL in California.

Choosing from the cornucopia of delicious culinary offerings that Redding bestowed on us, we eventually settled with the Denny's. Two Grand Slams later, we paid our check and were told by our waitress that we should stop by on our trip home so we could see the completion of their railing, which was halfway through the process of being painted red from its previously faded green. Awesome.

Oregon is where we really started to lose our minds. Seemingly the only thing off of Route 5 North for all of Oregon were cows, sheep, and snow capped mountains. Portland, the city at the tip of the state, seemed to be an impossible goal. Somehow, we made it through to Washington, thinking our trek was almost at an end.

How wrong we were. As we exited Route 5, our navigation told us we had around 200 miles left to get to Forks. 200 miles. Not 200 minutes. 200 miles on a highway with two lanes. One going north, one going south. And of course, we were driving behind an ambulance abiding by the 45 mile-per-hour speed limit.

After passing a sign that read 40 miles to Forks, we soon saw signs for our hotel, the Kalaloch Lodge. Confused, we pulled over to see wtf was up. Is this the right hotel? we asked. Yes it is, they explained, telling us that they were only 30 miles outside of Forks. Since we already booked the Twilight package, we decided to go ahead and check in. After dropping and breaking our laptop in the parking lot (while going into an internet-less hotel room, mind you), we entered the room. Hmm... what was missing? ... Oh yes, a television. So. We had just traveled ohh 1,300 miles to go to a dvd release party, and then to watch said dvd. We had even brought our own dvd player. A dvd player rendered useless with no television.

After attending the dvd release party, we decided to go to bed at midnight because we had not slept in over a day, instead of collecting the dvd we had traveled so far for. In the morning we woke up at an ungodly hour to go on Dazzled by Twilight's Breaking Dawn tour.