Port Angeles Trip

So if you read my post last week­end, you’d know that I was plan­ning another adven­ture with Clau­dia. This time since I had more time to think about it, I wanted to pick a place that I’ve been want­ing to visit. Since I’m a huge “Twi­light” fan, I’ve wanted to visit Port Ange­les, and Forks The movie has been filmed more in Forks, WA and Ore­gon but there were a few scenes where they trav­eled to Port Ange­les, which is a shorter drive so that’s what we decided on

The guys were play­ing Heroscape that day so I invited our friend Julie who also had a sig­nif­i­cant other play­ing the game. Turns out she’s a HUGE fan of these lit­tle road trips and would love to join us more in the future!

We departed Tacoma at 11am after we had got­ten our Star­bucks fix and a few snacks for the road After lots of gig­gling, talk­ing, and 102 miles, we had arrived!

The night before, I had looked up a few touristy things that we could do so we’d have a lit­tle idea of what to do in the town. We hit up the Farmer’s Mar­ket first since they were clos­ing at 2pm. The mar­ket was pretty small, just a few tents with some fruits, veg­eta­bles, jew­elry, and some other home­made things, but still neat to see some of the crafty things they had there. While walk­ing around we noticed that the down­town area had a lot of cool out­door art! Here are some we came across.

Maybe hav­ing too much fun here Haha!

We fol­lowed this cou­ple to the Farmer’s Mar­ket. The woman said this is the height dif­fer­ence between them when she’s not on stilts, haha!

Lots of Murals downtown.

After we checked out some of the art on the town, we stopped inside the vis­i­tors cen­ter for some more infor­ma­tion. What I thought was most excit­ing was the binder full of places where “Twi­light” cast mem­bers have been in the movie! We took a quick snap­shot so that we could go back and visit those places.  Since day­light is so lim­it­ing, we knew we only had a few hours before it got dark so we wanted to do all of the out­door things we could.

We headed off to the Port Ange­les Fine Art Cen­ter. Webster’s Woods Art Park pro­vides 5 acres of rus­tic trails where you can find more than 125 works of art! This was by far the coolest thing we had done that day. Walk­ing on trails and dis­cov­er­ing art left and right, up and down and all around was so cool. Wher­ever you looked there was art! We def­i­nitely found that peo­ple can make art by using just about any­thing! You will see from the fol­low­ing pictures.

Julie said that some of the art we saw reminded her of being in a hor­ror movie! Def­i­nitely some weird stuff!

Oh no! Claudia’s been framed!

There were a lot of these upside down shoes every­where. Julie was finally able to get her bal­ance enough for a picture!

Who knew Yoga balls could be con­sid­ered art!

We found this tree with mir­ror boxes on them. We had a lot of fun with this!

These shirts were weird. Soft and plastic-y.

This sym­bol reminded us all of math class. Pi anyone?

Julie “plank­ing”

Clau­dia was dis­ap­pointed when the bell didn’t ring, haha.

This web must house a HUGE spi­der, EEK!

Even garbage can be art!

For some rea­son we all thought this red string looked creepy in the woods. Haha

Tak­ing a lit­tle break from all the walk­ing around

If this lit­tle cage wasn’t made from thorny branches, we may have stayed in a while longer!

Claudia’s tak­ing a trip with her designer lug­gage made from wood and plaster?

Even the trees have style

Here is the book­store where the char­ac­ter “Bella” bought her book on vam­pires in the first movie of the Saga. Of course we went inside Looked a lot dif­fer­ent than in the movie.

We also passed the restau­rant “Bella Italia” and the “Lin­coln” movie the­ater that the main char­ac­ters were in! It was pretty cool to me and Julie who are big fans

Once it got too dark to do any­thing more out­door­sie, we checked out a cou­ple bou­tiques. Julie was very excited to find some designer jeans at 50% off! Yay!

We were so busy play­ing tourist that we hadn’t eaten any­thing besides the few snacks we had in the car so it was def­i­nitely time for din­ner. We agreed that we were all in the burger/fries mood so Julie sug­gested we try this burger place that’s pretty well known in Port Townsend called “Fat Smitty’s”. They are well known for their big burg­ers and also for the thou­sands of dol­lar bills plas­tered to their walls and ceil­ings! We knew we had to check it out! Here are some fun pictures:

The dol­lar bills all have dif­fer­ent say­ing and com­ments on them. Some peo­ple even posted their busi­ness cards and pic­tures on the wall!

Once we were all fed, we headed the rest of the way home and were all pretty tired. Julie’s boyfriend Nate, and Ben were still hang­ing out at the apart­ment so we decided to end the night with a soak in the hot tub What a great Sat­ur­day! Next stop, Forks! Stay tuned!