Here are some more pictures from our trip to Leavenworth, WA. We had an absolute blast, along with getting some much needed R & R. The place we stayed was amazing. It was our first bed and breakfast experience and it was more than we hoped for - the details added up to a one-of-a-kind vacation. We felt catered to and spoiled, but yet the place wasn't stuffy or snooty at all. These people know how to run an inn.

The B&B - Run of the River Inn


Little details in our room...food for the birds (to leave in the feeder on our balcony), a personal note welcoming us, and a key on a pretty pewter key chain. There were also pears on our pillows. Yum.


More details...Burt's Bees products in the bathroom. Nice!


This is the common room where we had breakfast each morning. They had coffee, tea, cocoa and cider available all day, as well as fresh-baked cookies each afternoon. The staff was very helpful and we ended up hitting some really good restaurants on their suggestions. At first I thought it might be weird or uncomfortable to all eat together, but it was great. Breakfast was at nine and everyone was still waking up and not too chatty, but just talkative enough to keep the awkward silences at bay. The inn only has six rooms, and they were not all full, so the table always had extra seats. Plus, the breakfasts were so amazing I would have eaten on the floor - fresh fruit, different smoothies each day, shittake mushroom quiche with Swiss Gruyere cheese, caramel apple flan...just to mention a few items on the menu!


One day we took a bike ride into town. The inn has mountain bikes for each room. The loop we took ended up being about eight miles, but the long part was the ride into town. We took a break to shop, snack and wine taste (which is why Will's teeth look purple!) before riding the less than two miles back.


A shot of the town. Really cute shops...Neat places like The Cheesemonger's Shop and Icicle Ridge Winery Wine Shop. It's a small downtown area, about enough to fill one or two days of browsing. However, the food was good enough to fill a week! We got our fill of schnitzel, sausage and red cabbage!


We spent a day skiing at Steven's Pass. It was a blizzard when we got there, and snowed all day long. It let up in the afternoon on the front side of the mountain, but the back side was so windy and cold! I almost wimped out at lunchtime, but I pushed through and we ended up having the best afternoon. It was more than we expected skiing in Washington to be.



Lots of snow!



Brrr.


This last pic is from Will's squadron's welcome home party. We somehow left without taking any pictures, so we took this on the street before getting in the car to drive home. It was a nice way to wrap up Will's two weeks off. Good food and good company. Oh, and doesn't he clean up nice?!? My handsome husband (makes up for the goofy, purple teeth, bike helmet picture!). =)

Okay, well, that was LONG! I have a million more pictures because it was just that much fun. It wasn't too hard of a transition back to real life, though, because my husband's home - much better than what my "real life" has been like the past four months. Life is so good.