{"id":11835,"date":"2017-05-22T03:00:54","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.darais.com\/?p=11835"},"modified":"2017-05-22T03:00:54","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T03:00:54","slug":"forks-and-the-hoh-rain-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/forks-and-the-hoh-rain-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Forks and the Hoh Rain Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning we got up early so we could fit in everything on our itinerary. The first thing we did was head to the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park. Forks, the setting for\u00a0<em>Twilight<\/em>, was literally en route. We had to drive through it in order to reach our destination. Since the town of Forks takes five minutes to see in its entirety, we did a thorough tour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11837\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_3407-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11923\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11923\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_5268.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11923\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_5268-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11923\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The high school came complete with snarky teenagers! We couldn&#8217;t believe our luck in discovering that this aspect of the Twilight setting was spot on.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11860\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11860\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_5271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11860\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_5271-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11860\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Bella&#8217;s truck outside of the Forks visitor center.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After driving one block off of the highway to the high school, we were convinced we had toured Forks in its entirety. The town is itty bitty.<\/p>\n<p>Then we headed to the Hoh Rain Forest to stamp our National Parks passports and take a little hike around.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11993\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11993\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5273.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11993\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5273-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">With these girls in tow as I headed to the visitor&#8217;s center, I garnered lots of compliments on my prolific proclivity for childbearing. I had to tell my admirers that the talents of others were also at play in creating the adorable set pictured here.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11994\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11994\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5274-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ammon admiring the rain forest.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11997\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11997\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11997\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5277-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">There was beautiful poetry posted on the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11998\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5279.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11998\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5279-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Such verdant abundance on the trail!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5290.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12006\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5290-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5284.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12002\" src=\"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/IMG_5284-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a>After our lovely little hike, we drove down the Washington Coast to Astoria, Oregon. The scenery was spectacular. We felt like we were driving through brilliant green tunnels punctuated with breathtaking views of the intensely blue Pacific Ocean. Gorgeous!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday morning we got up early so we could fit in everything on our itinerary. The first thing we did was head to the Hoh Rain Forest in Olympic National Park. Forks, the setting for\u00a0Twilight, was literally en route. We had to drive through it in order to reach our destination. Since the town &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/22\/forks-and-the-hoh-rain-forest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forks and the Hoh Rain Forest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}