Oh, to be back in a place where there is actually summer!
Because I don't care how beautiful it is, 55 and partly cloudy in Kodiak is not summer.
It's a glorious 80 degree, vibrantly sunny day today, and that is summer to me.
The boys and I spent the morning walking downtown Leavenworth, which I could probably do literally every day the rest of my life. For the 5% of the world that have never heard of Leavenworth, WA, it's a one of a kind little tourist village. The main drag (Front St) is pedestrian traffic only, allowing you to walk up and down a long two or three city block wide street with wall to wall Bavarian style buildings with all sorts of whimsical shops that are just plain fun to walk into. Toy stores, t-shirt stores, book stores, treat stores and fun touristy outdoor stores. They're just plain fun to explore.
We went through our favorites, the Christmas shop and the toy store being the priority stops of course. Us deprived little Alaskan people were like kids in a literal candy store, filling up bags of saltwater taffy and marveling at the entire rooms full of Christmas villages. It's almost like chicken soup for the soul for those of us that only have a Walmart to peruse.
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| Leavenworth, WA |
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| The Disney village in the Dicken's village room. Literally a room of village. |
After we wandered downtown Leavenworth for a few hours, we had lunch at Heidleberger, probably our favorite burger place in town since I was a little kid.
Later this afternoon, we took the kids down to the Wenatchee river to play. The water level is low so it was easy to run up and down the river with their inflatable tubes, riding down the river and then running back up.
These are the kinds of things that we can't do in Alaska that we are relishing in.
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