Our Twilight Tour is coming to an end ...

So the day has finally dawned when Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl have to attempt to get all their purchases packed up ready for their journey home ...

They soon realised that this would entail yet another trip down to Target in order to buy larger carry-on bags ...!



Unfortunately, their brief shopping trip did not go entirely to plan ... when having chosen two wheely carry-on cases ... they then found in the toy section, the New Moon game that they had been playing in San Diego last weekend ... & ended up buying one each ...!

After completing their re-packing, and relocating to the Crowne Plaza Hotel at LAX, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl decided to have one last trip to the nearest IMAX cinema ... to see Eclipse again ...!

Here's Sparkling Alice outside the fab Rave Cinema at the Howard Hughes Promenade Mall ...

... & here we both are, sitting in the sun, waiting to go into the cinema, after eating far too much in the burger bar across the mall ...!

As we probably won't have the opportunity to blog again on the way home, this is potentially our last post ... so we hope you've all enjoyed hearing about our escapades ... & we'll look forward to boring the pants off you all next week with our hundreds of photos .....! ;o)

Bye for now ...

Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl xx

Here, there & everywhere ...

Ok ... so after the excitement of last night's Carlisle encounter ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl thought they'd try their luck with another spot of stalking ...

First off, they headed out to Piru ... where Rob is currently filming his new movie "Water for Elephants" ...

... but despite being able to walk right down to the tents, they were foiled by a security guard who informed them that today's filming was taking place at a hotel in Downtown LA ... however, he did go on to tell them exactly where the hotel was ...!



Next your intrepid reporters visited the Elephant Bar in Valencia, where Taylor has been known to hang out ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl went in to sample a lemonade & got chatting to the very nice barman ... unfortunately Taylor didn't put in an appearance ... but the whole place was pretty neat ...!

Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl then decided to make their way to Malibu Beach to catch a few rays ... as they were in danger of going home looking like vampires ...!

But before long ... the temptation got the better of them ... & they headed off to Downtown LA, in search of the hotel where Rob was filming ...

Using their superior tracking skills, they quickly managed to sniff it out ... but although there were clearly lots of film crew trucks etc around ... there was no sign of the Robster ...!

... so after grabbing something to eat on the way back to the motel & having a trial run at re-packing ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl headed off to the 10pm showing of Eclipse at the IMAX down the road ... & the movie was even more exciting when there was almost a set to at the other end of our row ... awesome! ;o)

Have a great time at the midnight showing ... Charlie steals the show with several scenes ... look out for his "breaking up the argument after the punch" scene & the "sex talk" scene ... he's absolutely brilliant ...!

You'll never believe what happened next .....

After just 3 hours sleep, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl were up & having breakfast ... ready to see Eclipse again at the local IMAX cinema at 10am ... & it was even better in IMAX, if that is possible ...!

This is the huge bill-board that's about two doors down from our motel in Woodland Hills ... what a beautiful sight to wake up to each morning ...

When they returned to the motel, after seeing Eclipse for the second time, Sparkling Alice decided she needed to cool down ...

Later, that afternoon, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl were first in the audience queue for Peter Facinelli on the Jimmy Kimmel Live talkshow, & were rewarded with seats in the second row ...

As they were leaving the studios after taping, however ...

Wolf Girl was getting all hot & bothered for a completely different reason .....

... oh, & before you ask ... no, this photo has not been photoshopped ...! Sparkling Alice made the ultimate sacrifice ... & took the photo on her mobile ...!

Time ...!

Finally ... it's time for the Eclipse ...!

Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl had planned a lie-in this morning, to make sure that they were refreshed enough to stay awake until the wee small hours watching the Twilight Trilogy ... unfortunately, the un-named person who had had the room before us, very kindly left the alarm set for 7am! So they went on another small shopping expedition again, to check out more luggage ... just incase!

Then they grabbed their tickets for the Twilight Trilogy & hot-footed it down to the Century 8 Cinema in North Hollywood to join the queue at around 4pm ...

As they waited patiently to be let in for the 7.15pm start of Twilight ... a nice lady came round & gave everyone free Eclipse badges ... & someone in front of us in the queue commented on our rather fetching designer Primarni shoes ...!





Once inside ... we stocked up enough nachos, chocolate chip cookies, ice-cream & drinks, to feed a small army (of newborns) ...!

... & although it was quite tiring ... we soon woke up when Eclipse came on ... the movie is awesome ... can't wait to see it again in IMAX tomorrow ...!

The countdown is on ...

With less than 9 hours remaining until they are due to attend the showing of the Twilight Trilogy ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl pop down to Target to stock up on enough provisions to last them through the entire 6 hours ...

... & yes, Sarah, those are cheesy balls ...!!!

Fame at last ...!

We may have forgotten to mention that when we were on our movie locations tour in Vancouver, Christine asked us to take part in a testamonial video - this is because we never envisaged it would see the light of day on the internet. However, if you want a good giggle, check out her website at www.onlocationtoursvancouver.com ....!

Lunch & a shopping expedition .....

After what had been a very busy weekend, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl managed to grab a short lie-in today, before driving from Anaheim to Woodland Hills, where they will be staying for 4 nights.

Unfortunately, this meant that they almost missed breakfast & by the time they got there, there was very little left ... so they made a bee-line to Denny's for lunch ... where Alice had a Mushroom Swiss Burger (which was the size of a small Swiss mountain!)

The duo then decided to try to walk off some of the calories with a short shopping expedition ... after all ... there couldn't possibly be much Twilight / Eclipse stuff that they hadn't already got ... could there .....?

... & yes ... this is just today's haul ...! ;o)

Touristy stuff continued .....

Having spent Saturday evening in Fantasyland ... & finally getting to bed a little after 1am, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl were up, packed & on the road back to LA by 9am, to spend the day in a completely different sort of fantasyland ...

Part way through the day, Sparkling Alice wondered, not for the first time, why exactly she had yet again let Wolf Girl talk her into getting on a scary ride ...? Especially those where it is almost impossible to stay dry!

Whilst waiting in front of Cinderella's castle for the Street Party Parade to begin, Sparkling Alice discovered an unwelcome flaw with her designer Primarni shoes ... the soles start to melt in extreme temperatures ...!

At the end of a very tiring day, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl were treated to a fabulous firework display, before they left to find their motel just a few minutes away ...




... having managed a whole day of non-Twilight related activities ...!

Almost as cold as vampires ...

Some 12 hours after they had started queuing, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl finally settled down on their beach towels to watch Twilight & New Moon in the open-air ...



Unfortunately, it had been a pretty cloudy day in San Diego, and before long, Sparkling Alice was complaining about her damp bottom ... & Wolf Girl was wishing she'd brought her furry jacket, as the temperature plummeted! However, they were both determined to stick it out through Twilight, & then at least until Jacob took his T-shirt off in New Moon ... hoping that would warm them up ...!

In the event, they both managed to endure the discomfort & make it through both films, before taking a few photos & saying goodbye to their new friends ...

Alice, Chas, & Wolf Girl

Chas, Wolf Girl, Valerie, & Candace

After walking the mile or so back to their hotel, Sparkling Alice was amazed to discover that Wolf Girl had managed to attract quite a severed amount of sunburn, on what was undoubtedly the least sunny day they had seen since they arrived in the USA ..!

The stars are out in San Diego .....

After over 9 hours of waiting & rumoured promises of a "meet & greet" for the first 60 in line ... queue rage was in danger of breaking out when fans who strolled up late in the day joined their friends ahead of us in the queue .....

However, all thoughts of lack of sleep were fogotten once we got inside Petco Park & were given our free Eclipse T-shirts! Other booths were giving out more freebies & taking photos ... so despite concerns over weights limits ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl collected a tote bag & badge each ...!

The audience was entertained by a local band called War Stories, and then at around 7pm the main event started with an Eclipse sneak peak trailer, plus a bit of behind the scenes footage ... & then Angela (Christian Serratos) turned up looking stunning ... closely followed by Carlisle (Peter Facinelli), who looked too darn hot for his own good ...!

Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl waited patiently at the barrier with Chas W, & were eventually rewarded with Peter signing their Cullen baseballs ... which made him do a double-take, before he asked if we were Australian ...! He obviously didn't recognise us from Thursday night ...

this may actually be a good thing ... as if he'd recognised us for a third time at the Jimmy Kimmel show on Wednesday ... he would probably have applied for a restraining order .....

... so just to make you really jealous ... here are our most prized possessions .....

New day ... new city ... new friends ...

Despite only being able to sleep for about 2 hours ... Wolf Girl was up at the crack of dawn ... worried about the length of the queue that could already be forming down at Petco Park for the Twilight Night ...


However, when they arrived at the entrance at 8am ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl were delighted to find themselves only about 30th in the queue ...!



After a few introductions ... we found that we had a lot in common with those around us ... as if that should be a surprise ...!


Special thanx should go to Chasity, who only living about 10 minutes away from the park, popped home to collect her New Moon board game ... which we then proceeded to play for 4 hours whilst sitting on the pavement waiting ...





Further thanx are due to Maria, Valerie & Brenda who very kindly arranged for a Mexican lunch to be delivered for our group, so that we could keep our strength up for the big event ...




However, it soon became apparent that others in the queue were becoming a little bored ...

just look what happens when you leave Twilight fans unattended for long periods of time ...

Vampire succumbs to sleep deprivation ...

Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl realised that trainee vampires actually do need to sleep ... otherwise they forget to blog things .....

Back at Universal Studios, Sparkling Alice yet again wondered why on earth she had listened to Wolf Girl ... when half way around the House of Horrors, they were cornered by Frankinstein ... who seemed reluctant to let them leave ......

Eventually, they managed to escape his clutches ... & Sparkling Alice has vowed that this is the last time that she will follow Wolf Girl blindly on to any attraction that has a warning symbol at the entrance .....!

Later, during a pit stop ... Sparkling Alice mused about the appropriateness of adding a minor to her "Hot Men" list ... as having seen him in the flesh at the Red Carpet Event, she had Googled Cameron Bright's age, only to discover that he's still only 17!

Despite trying to have a non-Twilight related day doing touristy stuff, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl still managed to track down a rather nice Team Switzerland T-shirt ... but still couldn't locate any Vampire Diaries goodies ...

After purchasing said apparel, your intrepid reporters left Universal around 7pm to head down to San Diego for the Twilight Night on Saturday, where they'd heard Peter Facinelli & Edi Gathegi would be making guest appearances ... surely we couldn't get lucky again .....?

However, after making good time down to San Diego, Alice's powers started to fade ... & we had a rather scenic route to our Best Western Hotel .... having first had to call (rather embarrassingly) at the Days Inn to ask for directions ...!

Touristy stuff .....

Despite a very late night after the excitement (& blogging) of the Eclipse Red Carpet Event .....

our intrepid duo were up early in an attempt to finally do something non-Twilight related ...

a visit to Universal Studios in Hollywood!

First off they went on the Studio Tour ...

but their tram got attacked by Jaws ...!

... so they stopped off at Edie Britt's on Wisteria Lane to recover ...

Meanwhile ... Sparkling Alice was having serious hair issues caused by the misting fans, so helpfully provided to keep visitors cool ...

... little did she realise how insignificant this would be in comparison to the log flume that Wolf Girl had persuaded her to queue for by saying that you should try everything at least once ...

... & the Waterworld show ... where the actors, not content with throwing buckets of water over the audience, then proceeded to drence them with water canons ..!

The lady driving the boat in the show was Bella's stunt double from the Twilight Saga movies ...

oh no ... this was supposed to be a non-Twilight related blog ...!

Daddy Cullen gives us a mission ...

To top off what was a truly wonderful experience ...



Peter Facinelli (aka Carlisle) came over & signed both of our Eclipse books ...



... & had a short conversation with us ... during which when he found out we were from the UK, he asked us to find the guy who bit him ....!



The photo below shows Sparkling Alice getting in the way of Wolf Girl taking a photo to get her book signed ...!

oh my god ... Oh My God ... OH MY GOD!!!

Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl 's patience was finally repaid, when they realised that they were only actually some 6 feet away from the stars as they came along the line to sign autographs.

Here are just a small sample of some of the 370 combined photos that we managed to take in around 3 hours .....!

Twilight Saga : Eclipse Premiere ... the wait is on ...

Having obtained their Red Carpet wristbands & been told to come back at 2pm Thursday ... Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl went along to the Nokia Theatre at 11am ... just to be on the safe side ....

By 3pm Alice wasn't quite so Sparkling, but had secured her place in line ... & made lots of new friends ...

Eventually around 4.20pm, Sparkling Alice & Wolf Girl took their seats ....

yes ... we were some of the lucky few that actually got to sit on the bleachers opposite where the stars got out of their limos ...

this was the view we enjoyed ....!

Here's Wolf Girl & Sparkling Alice waiting patiently for the stars to start arriving ...