Leavenworth

It was with high recommendation that we check out Leavenworth, Washington. It is a little city about 2 hours from Seattle. It is nearing the end of our journey (4 weeks!) and we needed to see this place before we left. So I mentioned to Tara, for us to go there last weekend as we will have company for the next two weekends. Leavenworth is unexpected, you're driving through gorgeous mountains, going further and further up the mountain looking at the trees changing colors and then bam...you're there in Germany.

The drive was long...but really really pretty.

We're here!....with no cameras! As always, I forgot mine, and Tara's camera died within 5 minutes of being there so we used her camera phone.

To our suprise (and absolute delight) it was Oktoberfest!!!

So we shopped....

And had a few!

But not as many as this guy did!!

So here we are in Leavenworth and we were only going to go for the day. We've shopped, did a wine tasting, and a couple beers and we just don't wanna leave! So we asked another Oktoberfest-er how likely it was that we could get a hotel. They said that Oktoberfest is usually booked a year ahead of time. Shootskies.

But on a whim, we stopped into Adventure Inn in Leavenworth and they had 2 rooms left!

Middle guy used to play for the Lions or Colts (can't remember) but as you can imagine, German beer had little effect on him!

But it did on me! I think this was right after Tara spilled beer in my eye. No really.

But she is just havin' too much fun with Dunkel Beer!

Bratwursts and beer. I felt like I was home.