Leavenworth, WA

Nooo, we didn't go out of the country....it's right here in the great state of Washington. Leavenworth is about 2 hours from us and it is the cutest Bavarian town. We decided to head up there and check it out yesterday. It was a beautiful drive up there, we saw a lot of waterfalls, snow capped mountains and a really pretty river that we followed into Leavenworth. We took our time and stopped in a little town along the way because Chris had forgotten to pack DVD's with the DVD player, so we stopped and bought a $2.50 hello kitty movie and then we went to the $1store and the kids got to pick out a toy for the ride, it was just fun to relax and enjoy the ride and take our time.

Now this town Leavenworth is all Bavarian, from the post office to the McDonald's. I thought it was just going to be a street of Bavarian shops but, nope, it's the whole town. It was really quite cute. We ate at Old McDonald's(as Brooklyn calls it) for lunch and then headed into the main part of town for some window shopping. They had some really fun shops to look at, I loved the Christmas store the best. All the clerks in the stores were all dressed up as well. The whole experience was fun and it was a beautiful day. We want to go back at Christmas time for their lighting festival and snow sculptures. We'd even vacation there winter or summer, there are a ton of things to do there. The skiing, rafting, sleigh rides, etc, we will definately be going back.

We got some yummy huckleberry cheesecake and blackberry ice cream and headed home. When we got home, we went to the wading pool and the kids had a blast. Beckham just got right in his tube and ran around in the water chasing after kids and smiling and squeeling. Brooklyn got a new floating tube and enjoyed using that and had fun kicking around in the water. It was a good day.