Wilmington, NC: Visiting Capeside and Tree Hill

Hello everyone,

I have been anxious to share my pictures from our visit to Wilmington from the past two days! I got to see so many cool landmarks from my favorite TV show ever, One Tree Hill, as well as a new favorite show of mine Dawson's Creek! I decided to make a comparison side by side of most of the landmarks, one with my picture and one from a clip of the TV show. I will also include a small map of downtown Wilmington that will give you a good idea of how close these places are to each other as well as the addresses for these locations. Let the fun begin :)

Dawson's Creek

First and foremost I will begin with the pier from the opening credits, seen in this video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ef9qfidX1Kg

My hair was blowing EVERYWHERE and it was super windy but this is the pier! It was so cool to see that big icon from the show. 

703 S Lumina Ave, Wrightsville Beach, NC

Second iconic scene from Dawson's Creek would be Capeside High School. 

This is the outside of the school, which is actually Alderman Hall at the University of North Carolina- Wilmington. 

This is a shot taken facing away from the front of the school. I thought it was cool that the cannon is still there and the trees are the exact same. 

601 South College Road • Wilmington, NC 28403

Next up is the Federal Building used in both Dawson's Creek and One Tree HIll. On Dawson's Creek you see Dawson sitting on the steps of the building during the opening credits on some seasons but it is close up so you can't really tell. In the episode The Dance on season two of Dawson's creek, Andie and Jack wait for Pacey to pick them up for the dance and you briefly see the fountain and the steps. On One Tree Hill in season seven  the episode What's In the Ground Belongs to You, Quinn takes Jamie on a treasure hunt and one stop is the fountain!

60 North Water Street Wilmington, NC

Fourth is the wall Pacey gives Joey, which unfortunately is now covered up by a saloon. Sounds lame enough to me. I am secretly hoping the saloon bombs so they can knock down their stuff and show the wall again where they should!

28 South Front Street, Wilmington, NC

That's all for Dawson's Creek comparisons, but here are some important places that I couldn't find a good enough still shot of from the actual show. There are obviously so many more places but this is what I had time to see!

This is Leery's Fresh Fish from Dawson's Creek. Established in the third season of the show, but now it is a hispanic restaurant called Mix To. It still looks the same inside though!

5 South Water St, Wilmington, NC

The information board is across Water St. from Leery's Fresh Fish and the old Icehouse restaurant is just a dirt lot now :( but it is down Water Street if you are heading South. 

Also there was Hell's Kitchen from the last two seasons of Dawson's Creek. I hear if you go inside Joey's boat is on the wall in the back but we didn't have time to stop in.

One Tree Hill

Of course there are so many things to see from OTH but I tried to stick to the basics ;). Here are some of my favorite spots! 

First up was Karen's Cafe and Tree Hill Cafe. Located across Grace Street from each other, these two rival cafe's were important landmarks for the show. Tree Hill Cafe is still a coffee shop but Karen's Cafe isn't anything anymore. Someone should buy it and recreate Karen's Cafe or Clothes Over Bros which was what Karen's Cafe became in later seasons. 

Grace and Front Street Intersection, Wilmington, NC

The next place would be one of the most iconic places in the entire show, Lucas and Karen's house. This house still looks the exact same except there is a swing on the porch. 

1829 Wrightsville Ave, Wilmington, NC

Peyton's house was next. It was maybe a two minute drive from Lucas' and what was cool about this house that I learned on our trip was that people actually filmed many of the scenes inside the actual house. There was an awesome article about it in GQ called "Peyton's Place" here is the link: 

http://www.gq.com/entertainment/movies-and-tv/201110/one-tree-house-filming-john-jeremiah-sullivan

1901 Chestnut Street, Wilmington NC

Right next door to Peyton's on the left is Haley's house when she lived with her parents in the first season. It looks the same except for the yard work but I recognized it as soon as I saw the red door!

1811 Chestnut Street, Wilmington NC

Next up, Quinn's photography gallery Focus. This was not as recognizable as most of the other places but it was cool to see for sure!

33 S Front Street, Wilmington, NC


Last but not least for comparisons would be Brooke's house. This place looks exactly the same, and as I had heard from other OTH bloggers, the door is still red! So cool.

2314 Tattersalls Drive, Wilmington, NC

Next would be the riverfront park which had a lot of important Naley moments. First is the bridge which is seen in a lot of different shots on the show and goes over the cape fear river. The second is the famous "Don't Say I Never Gave You Anything" table where Nathan gives Haley a cracker jack box that has the infamous bracelet in it.

Front St and Water St Intersection

Another awesome place I would have never found without help from our tour guide would be the restaurant where Nathan got thrown through the window before the NBA draft. 

23 N Front Street, Wilmington NC

Last but not least is not a Tree Hill or Capeside location but it is from A Walk to Remember. The alleyway where Jamie tells Landon that she is sick. 

I couldn't really find a good still shot from the movie. But that is the scene you can see it in!

Those were the places I decided to visit. If you have time, you should definitely take the Hollywood Location Walk. Our guide tailored the walk to our favorite TV shows and movies and we learned a lot about the town and reasons why certain locations are no longer there and such. I hope everyone enjoys these pictures as much as I did. It is cool that so many locations are still there to visit and there are so many more I wanted to see but we didn't have time for! I will do a collective post for the rest of our stops but I figured this one deserved sometime special since it was the place I was looking forward to most! 

Thanks for reading,

Olivia :)

Meet Nike, Our New Puppy Girl!

Hello everyone!

So I know Madi and I announced some news last month about how we were getting a puppy girl and today we got to finally meet her! We don't get to take her home until May 10, but we went up to visit her for the first time today and boy was it awesome! When we arrived after the hour drive we got to see all of the puppies and play with all of them. One by one the owner moved all the boys out of the area into another play area and we got to be with just the three girls. We learned that we had first pick because the person ahead of us changed their mind and wanted a boy so we got to pick which one we wanted. Let me tell you, that was one of the hardest decisions ever! They were all so freaking adorable :) We ended up going with the girl who was most social around us but they were all cute. It was such a cool experience to get to spend extra time with our baby girl before we bring her home in about three weeks and made us really start feeling like parents of this cutie! Some of you know that we have picked a name out for her and so as you can see from the title of this post her name will be Nike! We think it's pretty fitting :) As thanks for taking time to read my blog I am posting pictures of Nike here first before I put them up on my personal Facebook, so enjoy! She's the best :)

Thanks for keeping up with us,

<3 Olivia

A Penny For Your Thoughts

Hello all,

I know once again it has been a while since I've posted (I have been a tad busy with school and now two jobs) but I wanted to just share something that has been on my mind. Today I was just sitting at my boyfriend's house and realized something I honestly never have before one hundred percent thought. Here it goes:

"there comes a moment in your life when you just realize that you've achieved true happiness. not because everything is going your way, not because life at one point becomes perfect, but because you've learned to accept all the challenges God has given you and use them for the best" - OAJ

Truth. This is seriously exactly how I feel. Although I've been so blessed lately between getting a great job at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, finding out we would be welcoming a new family member doggy style into our lives in May, and acing my tests in nursing school lately, things aren't always as bright as they seem. I've been struggling with conflicting views of different people in my life and while all of these events have been amazing, stress is definitely still taking a toll on my life in other ways. But today it really just came to my mind that things don't have to be perfect. Families argue, people of authority make dumb decisions, and people who can be totally unimportant in your life can hurt you with snide comments more than they realize. I just realized that at this point in my life this was the first time I ever was honestly and totally one hundred percent happy with everything. Happy even though those other problems were still occurring. I truly hope that everyone can have this experience of great peace at some point in their lives. If you have, you know what I mean. If you don't really understand it you may not have had this moment yet. That is my thought for the day. Just thought I should share.

Xoxo,

Olivia<3