Up this morning at Larry and Candice’s place outside of Monroe and then off to Starbucks with Larry for coffee and a reunion with many of my Starbucks friends. This was also an opportunity to introduce Colette to a lot of these folks.
It all went great. There were a lot of folks there and Colette was introduced to many of them and the talk flowed and it was all great fun. IN fact, there were simply too many people to do a decent catchup with more than a few of them. Ah well, there’s tomorrow and Wednesday.
After Starbuck’s, we’d dreamed up a plan with Larry to take a ride over to Leavenworth on the other side of Stevens Pass. I liked it as it is was great opportunity to show Colette the ful length of the Sky Valley.
Would have been nice if natural cooperated a bit better. Monroe and much of the lower-lying parts of the valley have been shrouded in deep fog since we arrived last night and today wasn’t much different so much of the valley up past Goldbar was in serious fog. But, no matter, we pressed on up.
Larry showed us a cool water fall along the way and once the fog cleared, the mountains were stunning as always. We did stop in for a look around in both Index and then Skycomish. Then up and over the top at Stevens Pass and then on out to Leavenworth where we walked around and enjoyed the German ambiance.
We ate lunch at the South Restaurant which had been recommended to us that morning by Dave D. at coffee. Apparently, his friend manages it. It was nice and Mexican was the order of the day. A Chicken Fajitas sandwich for me!
Then we began the drive back. All of this side is in brilliant sunshine. Larry took us a slightly different way back by lake Wenatchee which was quite pretty. And then, further along, I stopped on Highway 2 at mile marker 39 and took Colette down to see a favorite spot of mine on the river.
As we reentered the lower portions of the Sky Valley, the fog was still there denser than ever. We dropped Larry off at home as he wanted to get started on the evening’s meal and Colette and I went off to find, gasoline, turn in a prescription and get our dirty car washed.
Then it was home to rejoin Candice and Larry, enjoy a beautiful meal of Salmon and rice and then some excellent conversation afterwards. A very pleasant evening indeed.
dennis