Apples, Boats and Wine

We just got back from a trip to Wenatchee, WA to see family. My mom and Joe live in Wenatchee and my baby sister, Michelle, came home for the weekend from WSU. Its been 2 years since we have been in Washington. It was Holden's' first plane ride and he was a trooper. If you haven't taken a cross country flight its a bear, it took us from 9 am EST to 8 pm EST (5 PST) to get to Wenatchee and that is with only an hour layover in Dallas. Holden had a bit of a hard time adjusting to the 3 hour time change the first night but did pretty well the day after.

We spent 4 full days at my mom's. Holden and Grandma got lots of bonding time in. Wenatchee is the Apple Capital of the World and it was harvest season for apples and pears. We visited a great local fruit stand and there were more varieties of apples and pears than I have ever seen. We tried so many varieties it was hard to pick which to buy. Mom made delicious homemade apple and pear pies while we were there. Not to mention all the other awesome food she made us.

Jeremy and I got a date night Friday night, we went to Leavenworth a small Bavarian town to do some walking around in the quaint little shops and enjoyed some German beer at the beer garden before having dinner.

Saturday we went up to Lake Chelan for a boat ride. Grandma got Holden a life jacket that he took a while to get use to. The lake was nice and calm on the way down the lake but on the way back it was quite choppy. We laid Holden in the cuddy on the boat during the trip back up to the dock, every time we went over a really rough wave and the boat lurched Holden would let out this big belly laugh. I think we might have a risk taker on our hands.

Sunday we traveled a small section of Washington wine country. 4 wineries + free tastings = happy Amanda. I got some great bottles of wine to share at my ladies happy hour.

On our last day we had family photos taken with a quite uncooperative little man. But some of them turned out great.

We had an awesome time and hopefully it won't take us as long to get back next time. Photos of the trip will be posted next.