This weekend I went out with the neighborhood ladies to enjoy an evening of screaming 13-year-old girls. Yup, that’s right, we went to go see Twilight.
The movie takes place in Washington state (where vampires are totally safe, only 50 days of sunshine a year), and it really brought me back to my childhood.
Squishy-muddy grass, trees everywhere, moss, rain, clouds, fog, the rare sunbreak through the clouds – all the details were spot on. It was filmed in Portland, just an hour away from my hometown, so no wonder it made me nostalgic.
Of course, it also reminded me of all the reasons I don’t live there any more: the squishy-muddy grass, rain, clouds, 50 days of sunshine a year …