Leavenworth

We headed over to Leavenworth to watch the tree lighting on Saturday. Alex was at his friends house so he didn't want to go with us so it was just Mike, Megan, Jake and me. We had all sorts of fun!!!!!
Megan was taking pictures out the window on the way. It is a pretty drive when you get to the snow but I am not much of a car rider so it would be really nice for me if it wasn't so far away. :)

We finally made it and after 30 minutes of driving around looking for parking we gave up and found a pay lot. We had no idea how much it cost, the sign just said pay in the office, so we went to pay and it was only $5.00. That seemed like nothing after driving around for so long.

There were so many people there. It was packed already at 2:00 pm and the tree lighting wasn't until 4:30.

We found some snacks. Jake likes Bratwursts and Mike found the best kettle corn. It was so good. We went back at 5:00 to buy some to bring home and they had closed already so no more snacks for us. We were not to happy!!!!!

Mike and I. It was so cold. I have on three jackets, a scarf, gloves, lots of socks, big shoes and I am still numb. Burrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!

We decided it was time for some hot chocolate. It was really good but my fingers were still frozen. We should have asked if we could just rest our hands in the hot water.

I was trying to get a picture of Megan and Jake before they turned on all of the lights but I think the guy behind them thought I was trying to get his picture. It cracks me up because I didn't even notice him until I got home and put the pictures on the computer. Now I can't stop laughing about it. He looks very happy to be there.

They lit up the tree. It looked really cool. They sure use a lot of lights in that little city. It is so pretty when everything gets turned on.

All of the lights are on now. It looks so festive.

Jake and Megan before we head back to the car.

We made it back to the car and I officially can't feel my toes. Megan wasn't to happy about the cold either but she warmed up pretty quick. Luckily Mike's fancy truck has seat warmers so my buns were burning before I knew it. Yeah!!!!

Apparentely Megan and Jake had a rough day. They both fell asleep on the way home.

We had a really fun day. We tried to go in some of the shops but it was so busy that we didn't make it into all of them. I always say it would be fun to go there sometime when it wasn't so busy but we have never done that. I need to put it on the very long list of things to do.