For the last 5-6 years we have been spending our anniversary (June 26th), John's birthday (July 3rd) and the 4th of July at Lake Chelan. We have really enjoyed our time over there. You can mostly count on good weather and this year again did not disappoint. In fact, it was rather warm! We had temperatures over 100 most days.
A couple of years ago, we met Barry and Kathy Bilderback at Lake Chelan on one of our annual trips. We have a lot in common with them and became fast friends. They also make Lake Chelan an annual trip, so we have met them there for the last 3 years. Again this year we had a great time with them. We went motorcycle riding, we love to go up to Winthrop, have some lunch and walk through the stores, we spent a lot of time out on the boat on Lake Chelan just cooling off, we tried paddle boarding, which was great fun and we also had some of our grandkids with us. Here are some pictures of the fun times we had:
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| Kathy & Barry Renee & John on a road trip up into the hills. |
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| Lunch break on our road trip in the hills. |
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| Showing off their fake tattoos |
For John's birthday we got up at 5:30 a.m. and rode to the top of the hill overlooking Lake Chelan on one side and the Columbia river on the other. It was a really fun (but scary) ride up there on the motorcycle, but so worth the ride. John loves exploring on the back roads and this was a real treat for him. We saw the sun coming up and since it was early it was a cool 72 degrees which was really enjoyable. After the ride, John treated me to Starbucks!!
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| This is where the hand gliders take off from. |
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| The sun coming up! |
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| The Columbia River |
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| Yes, we were really up there! |
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John and his Adventure Bike looking out over |
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| See that line on the side of the hill? That's our road down! |
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| Lake Chelan |
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| Birds eye view of Lake Chelan |
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Back by 6:30 a.m. for our morning coffee!
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We had a great time with our friends and their granddaughter, Kadison, out on the boat for the day. We rode down to Kelley's Beach and had some ice cream and stop a few times along the way to jump in and cool off. It was over 100 degrees!
We had some visitors at the Park, they weren't shy either. There was a baby bird that even jumped up on John's hand for a minute. But I didn't get that picture. I think these squirrels were chewing up our table cloths at night!
Another successful trip to Lake Chelan!
Now, home to work for 4 more weeks and then
Retire to full time vacationing!
Stay tuned for more adventures.
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