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Sunrise from our room

The breakfast was ok. It was a nice room with a good view of the river.

And of the mountains.

We were planning to start out by going to the Riverwalk but ARGH!!! The car wouldn't start.  It had a bunch of error messages.  First off we got the portable charger from the trunk.  Whew!! It started.  The error messages stayed but since the car started we decided to continue with our plans.  

A "tiny" hotel near the park.  

Tired 

We left the park to walk to Bear, Bear for brunch.

Madeline & I split the sweet potato hash with egg.

The whole gang.  Madeline, Ivan, me, Ed, Dorothy, George, and Nathan.

Very cute restaurant with good food.

Edelweiss Hotel on Edelweiss St.

We dinked in several shops on our way to the Greater Leavenworth Museum. It was a very interesting museum about the history of the area.  We read about how the town became the Bavarian-themed village and how that saved the town.

The Gingerbread Factory wasn't really a factory but we could buy treats.

LOGE stands for Live Outdoors Go Explore

Short break to play a game and relax. Then we went back to the car to start heading back to the Singers'.  

We had to stop for gas before heading back.

The gas station was right beside the Alpine Slide. We were on the road by 2:15 pm. By this time the car was no longer giving an error message.  That was a relief. 

We planned to meet up at the Bigfoot rest stop.  Here are some scenes along the way, taken from a moving vehicle.

Snow in them there hills.

We made it to the Bigfoot rest stop.  But Madeline and gang went on by because Dorothy and Ed were sound asleep. 

It almost looks like the Alps.

Sunset 

We decided to go directly to the restaurant where we were meeting Debbie and Joe for dinner.  It was less complicated than going back to Singers' and then driving to the restaurant.  Plus, we were a little behind our earlier plan.  We planned to meet Debbie and Joe at Tablas Woodstone Taverna in Mill Creek Town Center. (Mill Creek was nearly half-way between Debbie & Joe's and Singer's)  It was a Spanish restaurant, but it ended out that none of us ordered Spanish food. 

I had the Bistro Filet. 

Nathan, George, me, Debbie, Joe

After dinner we headed back to the Singers'.  We were back by 7:15 pm. We found out that Madeline had an incident with a deep pothole on their way back.  Minor issue that was temporarily fixed with some duct tape. After Ivan went to bed we played 2 rounds of "Oh Pshaw!"  Nathan thinks that I should go back to calling it 10, 9, 8.  In this case, because of the number of people, we were playing 8, 7, 6.  

Dorothy, Nathan, Roman, George, Ed, and I took the picture.