Larry & Shirley (and the Messy Monkeys): Beautiful Leavenworth and a 50th Wedding Aniversary Celebration

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Beautiful Leavenworth and a 50th Wedding Aniversary Celebration

We enjoyed our "umpteenth" visit to Leavenworth last week. The food and musical entertainment were excellent once again. On Wednesday, we ate dinner at the Tumwater Inn. I had an interesting whole meal salad: hot BQ shredded pork and sauteed red bell pepper with apple slices, golden raisins and pecans on a bed of greens with raspberry vinaigrette dressing. Delicious! That evening we enjoyed the bible study meeting in Cashmere at the home of Don and Luann Magnus.

On Thursday, we met Larry's dad and brother Wayne to listen to music at the gazebo. We visited some of our favorite restaurants for delicious German food--Munchen Haus and Andreas Keller. On Friday evening we had loads of delicious German specialities at the King Ludwig restaurant. The accordion music and German music were wonderful also.

On the shopping front, I discover something new every year. This year: chocolate espresso candy (unfortunately, Caroline discovered them and ate most of them before I could share them with anyone else) and Scandinavian jams and spreads.

After returning from Leavenworth on Saturday, the 21st, we enjoyed a 50th anniversary celebration for our good friends, Ray and Virginia Saddler.

Saturday evening a thunderstorm came up over the mountains, which made for an interesting sky--stormy in the east and sunny in the west. Got a little rain and heard some distant thunder, but the storm mostly missed us.

2 comments:

Lane and Sylvia said...: That's a really nice picture of the Saddlers. I'm glad you had a good time in Leavenworth. It's a fun little town. Did you stop at the candy hut on the way back? Saltwater Taffy!!!!!!!; June 24, 2008 at 10:06 PM
Shirley said...: We've been to the "candy hut" a few times before (there's so much selection it's overwhelming!), but not this time. -S.; June 25, 2008 at 9:29 AM

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Welcome to Our Place - Updated for Spring 2012

We live between Marysville and Granite Falls. Larry still works at Crane-Eldec in Lynnwood, but due to a change in his work schedule in February 2011, he is no longer in a van pool. Instead he bought himself a Ford Focus to use as his work car. Shirley is Mom, "chauffeur," and chief bunny caretaker. We have two daughters: Rosanna, age 20, and Caroline, age 17.We used to have two pet bunny brothers, Lucky and Thumper, who turned 9 years old on October 5. But Lucky got really sick, and had him put to sleep a few days before Christmas last year. So sad.... Thumper doesn't even miss him; he is happy as long as he is fed!

Larry and Shirley are really into running this year, qualifying for Half Fanatics in January. The Seattle Rock-n-Roll half marathon will be our fourth in 2012, and we would like to do four more, if possible, and move up in Half Fanatics!
Caroline is a junior in high school, and Rosanna continues to work at the Ralph Lauren Polo store at Seattle Premium Outlets in Tulalip.

We all continue to enjoy taking photos, and Rosanna also took a photography class at Everett Community College last spring. (We bought her a Nikon DSLR for the class). She has made some money doing photography for a local business in nearby Granite Falls last fall. And I am still using my super tiny Olympus camera for photos "on the run!"