Quickie again, just got home from Leavenworth, the Bavarian village in the Cascades. We left at 8:30 a.m. with our neighbors for the two-hour drive and got home at nearly 9 p.m., so it was a long day but a lovely one: perfect weather, lots of food, insanely gorgeous views driving through the mountains. We had pretzels with mustard and salt water taffy, and we also had a big lunch at Visconti's Italian Ristorante and shopped at Kris Kringl ("Where It's Christmas All Year Long!") and the store with the Russian dolls and the store with the Jim Shore and Thomas Kinkade Disney art -- hey, it's a tourist town!
And we went to the Greater Leavenworth Museum, which follows the history from when the land was stolen from the Salish tribe that lived there through its time as a railroad town decimated by the Depression to its reinvention as a Bavarian haven based loosely on Solvang as a model, planned and implemented by (of course) local women's groups and a pair of gay men who were closeted until they were in their 70s but bought and transformed a local hotel and restaurant. We drove back at sunset through the mountains and I ate my leftover lunch as dinner. A few photos from the town and the Christmas store:
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