Uncle Ryan with the nieces and the henhouse.
The family on the front porch.
Grandma and Mary.
Curtsies after an evening production by Mary and crew.
Amy's birthday celebration...a shared smile between mama and daughter. We have just returned from a week of adventure with all of my siblings, spouses, children and the parents. The locale? Leavenworth, Washington, up in the Northern Cascades. The adventures? Endless!
Amy's husband Tom found a spacious 100-year old farmhouse for us to rent for the week, which was the perfect spot for us to unwind, prepare big meals to enjoy around a gorgeous and enormous table, play board games, and even feed/water chickens! We watched a spectacular theatre performance of the Sound of Music, floated down the Icicle River into town on a very (emphasis on very) slow current, hiked, biked, winetasted, and laughed. Each night, Mary would enlist the help of her grandmother and a few other lucky (or perhaps unlucky?) performers to entertain us under the lights of the porch with dance and music, usually with comical results. It was a wonderful week.
And here are a few acquired tidbits while on vacation:
1) Roosters are nasty, and you should not be in the chicken coop with them unless you have swift defensive skills.
2) When floating down a river, the only way to avoid being dumped into the water is to have a toddler on your lap. Think leukemia, recent surgery, or wearing contacts will exempt you? Not in this family!
3) The Farming Game requires at least six hours to play properly. We should have started earlier than 8pm.
4) Wearing lederhosen in public always draws attention...and not always the positive kind.
5) When a printed trail guide says a mountain bike trail is technical and advanced, trust it.
6) Hens sometimes roost above their designated roosting nests in a henhouse. Always look up in the henhouse before pulling a Henny Penny and declaring that hens are missing...unless you want to watch all of your in-laws spend an hour searching 20 acres of land for assumed-missing hens.
7) Everyone except Emily is tired of reading about Northern Exposure Re-runs in the Buck Banter. (Okay, fine...everyone except Emily AND the Buck Banter editor.)
8) Having family you really enjoy spending time with is a rare and wonderful thing! We are indeed the luckiest of luckys.
PROST!
4 comments:
Sounds like you had a great trip. The farming game? Nice. One thing to clarify though. Does wearing lederhosen prevent you from getting dumped in the water since it is not waterproof?
Great question. Knowing Buck water rules, probably not. Though none of the lederhosen owners would have risked their precious leather get-ups in such reckless fashion...they kept the lederhosen at home that day!
Come to think of it, perhaps we should have told them EVERY day of vacation was a float down the river and maybe those silly outfits would have remained in boxes. Smart looking, Uffs!
Looks like a great time and lots of memories! How come Tom does not have lederhosen??? Perhaps a Christmas gift next year..??
I remember the Farming Game!
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