# 31

We arrive in Leavenworth and check in to our hotel, after looking longingly at the pool we decide to head downtown to check out the shops and see what there is to see. It was easily 100 degrees, and we kept ducking into shops, some of us to look for more cool stuff (the kids) some of us to get out of the heat (Sean) and some of us just to have fun (me!!!) The heat doesn't really bother me after my upbringing in Michigan, I actually look forward to "frying my brains out". It doesn't actually get warm enough for me here in Whatcom County, so when I checked out the weather report for Leavenworth, WA a week before the trip and saw that we were in for temperatures of 95+ I knew I was in for a treat :)

Another cool thing, amongst the many cool things about Leavenworth is that on the weekends (when all the tourists are flooding the place) they have a live polka band playing in the middle of town, so in addition to the Chicken Dance song we got to hum along to Edelweiss and even cooler Felicity and I could "Tra la lee, Tra la la, Tra la lee, Tra la la ha ha ha ha ha ha ha....." to the Austrian Wanderer song.